I've been having a little fun with Jeff Id's freaky freakouts about the leftist/socialist/Marxist plot take over Western civilization. Over at Lucia's, I've wondered why none of his fellow travelers in the skeptic sphere ever ask him to dial down his paranoid rants against Democrats and environmentalists. I never got an answer, which I suppose is an answer. Meanwhile, Jeff's come over here to say he stands by what he wrote, and challenged me to explain
why my views are wrong
Flummoxed as to how I can explain why it's a bit of an overreach to call President Obama the "extremist in chief," or why it's wrong to regularly characterize Democrats as leftists/socialists, or why it's utterly delusional to claim that "Obama has many policies which are extremist leftist and some which appear to me to be fully Marxist," I was getting ready to attempt some rational rejoinder when I ...
