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Moderates, Not Leftists, Have Created the Crises in Democratic Cities
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this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
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A good question. Moderate vs radical isn't a measure of willingness to do violence, rather the belief that society must be replaced vs reformed. Radicals think the system is not fixable or not worth fixing and should be replaced by a different system. Moderates believe that the system is good, but needs to be fixed.
Radical beliefs aren't necessarily scary or violent. It is where a lot of the crazies live though, so it isn't a good measure of good or bad. Switching to facism, monarchism, feudalism, socialism, or communism are all radical ideas. Trying to regulate/deregulate capitalism is a moderate position.