Quote Originally Posted by Philippus Flavius Homovallumus View Post
I respectfully submit that there is nothing that resembles an organised and politically effective Left in the US at present.

If you want to see what dangers the Left presents... well... The Labour Party is currently being investigated by the Equality and Human Rights commission over accusations of an endemic culture of Antisemitism.
And if you want to see what dangers the Right present, see the Bannon-directed Trump in the US and Brexit in the UK. Trump, Brexit, Corbyn: all present the same antithesis to moderate politics that used to be the accepted norm. All of them see rules not as guidelines for what they should do and how they should conduct themselves, but as legal boundaries where they see if they will be materially punished for what they want to do. I'd also recommend reading on how classical tyrannies came about.