^The agony of defeat.^

tw wrote:

independents can hold views that span the entire spectrum, from far-left to centrist to far-right.

Independents can be moderates or anything else. Moderates can be only that and nothing else. Moderates lack the flexibility to put knowledge into practical application. Independents make moderates obsolete. All one has to do is look outside the Cellar to see how the moderate even changes it’s name across venues attempting to obfuscate its lack of flexibility. Let’s see how one of those one-trick ponies… e.g. westom… plays out:









Damning evidence that the moderate is inflexible and inferior to Independents. The politically impotent moderate has fallen by the wayside and needs to go the way of the dinosaurs.

An angry extremist has nothing useful to contribute.  So he posts more irrelevant nonsense as if denials alone are somehow honesty;  A moderate would be discussing the topic.  An extremist only understands anger, insults, and storm troopers. Extremists only understand "Them vs Us".  What people such as John McCain did constantly is evil to an extremist.