British far-right groups support Breivik

[South Bank Hank]

Standard Guardian link

Surely the problem is when far-right(or far-left)ideas become accepted into the political mainstream and become the new conventional wisdom?

Meanwhile, here's a thought for you from my political hero Nye Bevan:
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."

Avoiding the kerb doesn't necessarily mean being in the middle of the road but I suppose such great wit was ground breaking back in the fifties. But anyway, that's what the Guardian and Bevan think. Why not astound us with a thought of your own for once?

While perhaps not a startlingly original idea,it is most certainly not a quotation(from either The Guardian or Bevan or indeed elsewhere).It can therefore,perhaps, be described as "a thought of your own."

Sorry, was it a thought, for me, from your political hero Nye Bevan or wasn't it? I'm confused.

As to your question, if I thought for even a moment that you might read any answer with just a hint of an open mind, I'd invest. Arguing on the internet is a waste of time. Trying to debate with a closed mind is even more futile. The Bevan thought that isn't actually his thought just reminds me again not to waste my life.

 

[South Bank Hank]

Standard Guardian link

Surely the problem is when far-right(or far-left)ideas become accepted into the political mainstream and become the new conventional wisdom?

Meanwhile, here's a thought for you from my political hero Nye Bevan:
"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."

Avoiding the kerb doesn't necessarily mean being in the middle of the road but I suppose such great wit was ground breaking back in the fifties. But anyway, that's what the Guardian and Bevan think. Why not astound us with a thought of your own for once?

While perhaps not a startlingly original idea,it is most certainly not a quotation(from either The Guardian or Bevan or indeed elsewhere).It can therefore,perhaps, be described as "a thought of your own."

Sorry, was it a thought, for me, from your political hero Nye Bevan or wasn't it? I'm confused.

As to your question, if I thought for even a moment that you might read any answer with just a hint of an open mind, I'd invest. If arguing on the internet is a waste of time, then trying to debate with an impossibly closed mind is even more futile. The Bevan thought that isn't actually his thought just reminds me further not to waste my life. For that part at least, thank you kindly.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Surely the problem is when far-right(or far-left)ideas become accepted into the political mainstream and become the new conventional wisdom?

As to your question, if I thought for even a moment that you might read any answer with just a hint of an open mind, I'd invest. If arguing on the internet is a waste of time, then trying to debate with an impossibly closed mind is even more futile. The Bevan thought that isn't actually his thought just reminds me further not to waste my life. For that part at least, thank you kindly.

OK I'll bite.(Though I tend to agree with you that arguing on the net is a waste of time).However,I don't agree that I have "an impossibly closed mind." Whether you believe me or not, I've always been a firm advocate of the power of reason.That, after all, was one of the fundamental precepts behind democratic centralism.

To recap.The implication behind my question was that it is not far-right(or far-left)political parties,which are necessarily dangerous as such, but the acceptance of far-right or far-left ideas into the political mainstream as the new conventional wisdom.
Anyway,here's an example to make my question clearer and perhaps easier to answer.
Extreme right-wing monetarist theory(as espoused by Milton Freedman of The Chicago School of Economics)eventually got picked up by mainstream conservative politicians in both the US(Reagan)and the UK(Thatcher).The deregulation of the financial system,which they both embraced in the 80's,(effectively removing constraints on the banking system in place since the 30's),paved the way for the three decades of derregulation since,(under both Democratic and Republican Governments in the States and Labour and Tory ones in the UK, which have brought about the present crisis.

(See no quotes from The Guardian or political heroes or even economists such as Stiglitz, Paul Krugger or filmmakers like Charles Ferguson).