Couldn't Something Be Arranged?

But the poll, due to its large sample size of both far left and far right respondents, provides quantitative data demonstrating something striking: an extreme right wing that not only hates those on the opposite side of the political spectrum, but also desires to be isolated ethnically, culturally and geographically from the rest of the country.

I'm more than willing to accommodate their desires. Haven't their little even-nuttier friends wanted Idaho for themselves for a long time? We could cram the 27% into Idaho & leave them to see what living close together is like. They might even learn something. (No they wouldn't. Stuff them in Idaho & rats in a cage wouldn't be a good enough metaphor. Most would be shot dead w/in a wk. as a result of slights to honor & their desire for a "polite society." What are we waiting for?)

Lookit these tiny-minded cretins. Today's Know-Nothings:

Those on the far right – or, as Pew describes them, “consistent conservatives” — are 15 points more likely than their progressive counterparts to want to live in communities where most people share their political point of view. This is only logical. Why would you want to live in an area where you think your neighbors are out to destroy America?

These same conservatives are 40 points more likely than their progressive counterparts to prefer to live in areas with people of the same faith and 56 points less likely to want to live in an area of racial and ethnic diversity.

Odder is the conservative antipathy toward art and culture. While liberals and conservatives all are within a 10-point range when asked about their desire to live near family, good schools and the outdoors, conservatives are 50 points less likely than liberals to want to live in communities with cultural institutions such as art museums and theaters.

And what company do conservatives choose to keep? Other conservatives.

“Consistent conservatives” are 14 points more likely to say most of their friends share their political views.

The picture painted by Pew is one of a conservative movement that wishes to simply avoid any divergence that creates a modicum of discomfort. This isolation has a price.

The price being their quick disappearance from our world, I hope. Guess that makes me just as bad as they are, huh? However:

Observing that right-wing extremists have killed 40 people in this country since Sept. 11, 2001, while the left has not been responsible for a single death, Brian Beutler of the New Republic wrote:

I’m inclined to believe the answer is written into the DNA of conservative extremism—that deeply conservative people are more politically tribal than others, and more inclined to confront cognitive dissonance by entertaining conspiracy theories and cocooning themselves in communities with like-minded true believers.

Note very well what I bolded, & that the right is & wishes to remain nothing but a rapidly dying tribe of violence-crazed buffoons. (Not that there's anything wrong w/ that!)