I have been debating the Alt Right all week, but I still hold that the left is more of a threat to our culture than the right ever could be

They actually run academia and push propaganda through the social sciences. Karl Marx is the # 1 most assigned economist, we are the most anti-freedom of speech generation, and the most anti capitalist. 100% capitalism is bad, but we need a mixed economy, and being against means of production privately owned all together is bad.
The alt-right is a problem, but not on a large scale, at least right now

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GlassDog · 46-50, M

The issue isn't the political system or the perceived moderation of one side versus the other, the issue is when certain conditions allow a rapid and unchecked swing toward an extreme. While we can mostly argue (validly, I think) that capitalism is a better model than communism for the way the world is today, if you take the left to its extreme you send people to the gulags, and if you take the right to the extreme, it's the death camps. At that point, arguing about the merits of an economic model is largely moot.

Rather than rally behind one side or the other and cheer it on as we would a football team, we should instead be vigilant for the conditions that precipitate an avalanche.