Russia embraces religious intolerance with draconian blasphemy and anti-gay laws

[DeistPaladin]

@DP, I thought you were talking about Fox’s liberal political analysts, not when guests talk over the interviewer.

Both really. If you're employed as a liberal analyst on Fox, you're not there to seriously argue the liberal side. You're there to be the punching bag.

You’re more of a far-left zealot than I thought.

Well, you wouldn't be the first to make that accusation. I'm not even sure what "far-left" means anymore. Back in my conservative Republican days, when I said "far left", I was talking about socialists. And by "socialists", I meant it not as a pejorative bandied around to insult anyone left of Lieberman, but as a reference to self-identified socialists who advocated for government control over all businesses and an even re-distribution of wealth.

Times have changed as the GOP has moved into its own alternate reality bubble. Obama is called a "socialist" even though he's not even a liberal (more like an Eisenhower Republican). So I suppose you might see me as a radical leftist even though I believe in regulated capitalism, I own my own business and my political views are about mid-way between liberal and libertarian.