If he wasn't then I retract my statement, tempers have been flared over this.



I have no idea what trz believes or doesn't believe. I have stated that he didn't really fit in the American right but I would never argue that he is a leftist.



I think there is a problem with using the same labels to describe crazed extremist as we use for main stream political groups. There has been to much effort by both sides to try and define the other like that. I doubt you have much more in common with the unabomber than I do with this sicko despite the fact that he picked some thing to be crazy about that more closely align with thinking from the left. There are valid reason to be concerned that corporations have to much power in our society and saying that in no way makes one responsible for his actions.

I think in general they should avoid using political labels for lone mad dogs no matter what. With groups it gets a little harder. Then you have to ask how much the main stream group defends or rejects the group. Most people would call the KKK a far right group but main stream conservatives in no way support them and are just as eager to openly condemn them as the left is. If you looked their issues I assume I my positions would closer to to their views than yours would be on a very few minor points but on 98% we would agree and the rest I would be much closer to your position than theirs. So with the Klan I object to using the label far right because it implies that I have similar views only less extreme when I think I have nothing in common with those people and despise both their methods and their values. The tea party is a different story. Even though I disagree with them on a lot points I have no problem acknowledging that I am in the same political spectrum as they are. I wish they would calm down but when push comes to shove I agree with them a some important points.

I think trying marginalize the other side in this way is something both sides do but I do think the left is more effective at it. I also believe the media either intentionally or simply because so many of them are liberal and just think that way promote the idea that right is dangerous by being much more likely to label someone as far right than they are to label someone far left and by pointing out the extremes of the right while ignoring those on the left. Conservative have the right to object to this and to call the media out for doing it.

I also think that issues like this matter. Association plays a larger role in are thinking than we like to admit and the names we call a thing does affect how we think about. I believe the left is more aware of that the right is and that is why they have pushed for all of the PC name changing over the years and jungles are now rain forest and swamps are wet lands.

The long and short of it though that regardless of how political scientist choose to labels beliefs systems I personally object to any system that implies a similarity to my beliefs with a man whose hatred led him to kill children. I not only oppose his actions but his motives as well.