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No. The Klan will vote Republican, ELF will stay home or vote for a third candidate. And, as things stand presently, if we draw the line to extremism at some common measure of anti-democratism and/or support for organised violence against political opponents, the right-extremists are a much larger group than left-extremists. For that reason, any equation of left/right-extremists only serves the Right's pursuit to move the center further right, defining ever milder leftists extremists (and ever viler right-wingers just hard- or centre-right).

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 12:00:50 PM EST
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In teh Basque country there are no right extremists, and the 15 percent are "patriotic left". Among the youth, there are no skin-head, but "left" Basque independentist street fighters. The ceailing of electoral support for ETA's political arm has been 15% in 1998/9

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 1st, 2007 at 05:13:03 PM EST
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