True, but I was thinking more in the rank-and-file sense.
> I think the proportion of scumbags is an exponential function of the
> proximity of the given ideology to power. Accordingly, the US right is
> packked with them, while I haven't run across a single one of them in,
> say, this list. . . .
I don't classify anyone here that way either. But conversation is a pretty weak test. For instance, for some people that I deal with in my mid-echelon status, I get very different impressions of them from people that work for them or deal with them in some kind of subordinate capacity. And of course, when things get dicey peoples' truer character tends to become more exposed.
For all its distance from power, I'd say the left is full of scumbags, if somewhat less than other political precincts. Some of their names have popped up here, by way of testimony from list members.
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