Many are inclined to say that it is bad indeed. Why might you ask? Because it turns people off to the real issues. Most things that are radical these days seems to be more of a deterrent than an aid. I issue you this response to radical conservatism:
read "Letters to a Young Conservative" by Dinesh D'Souza.
I am currently reading the book and have found that Dinesh comes to the conclusion in some insistences that being a radical is the only way to bring about change. He attended Dartmouth during a liberal time. He stands by his actions as a radical conservative on campus because it allowed the liberal status quo to be infiltrated. Because of Dinesh and others' involvement with the radical conservative newspaper "Dartmouth Review", an enlightenment took place on campus which remains to this day. The status quo was undermined and a freer flow of political ideology was able to influence the student body. Years down the road Dinesh returned to Dartmouth and asked a student what his political position was. The student said he was a conservative, but not as radical as those guys on the Dartmouth Review were. Dinesh smiled at this because he knew the student would not have had the luxury of such political bias had his generation of Dartmouth Review writers not been as radical as they were.
I conclude that radicalism is necessary in special cases to bring about a greatly needed change.
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I quote Family Guy when I say people don't like radical conservatives because they are "as stubborn as a mule"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqHbEzBhQAA
On any other political forum, quoting Family Guy will earn you nothing but condescending laughter... but it is still somewhat of an entertaining show.
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