Left and right have both historically carried out heinous acts. I'm sure if you did a body count, you could make one better or worse than the other, but it's really irrelevant. 100 million would be a drastically low count for either 'side'.
The point is that extremism in either direction is bad. You end up with a Hitler or Pol Pot or Stalin or Franco. What about Saddam Hussein? Was he left or right? What about Gadaffi? Again, left or right? The issue is extremism of any nature. Anybody who associates themselves with 'left' or 'right' is deluded. Extreme left isn't necessarily good and extreme right necessarily bad.
Both left and right have good and bad points. Look at the Soviet Union from its inception to its demise. 100 million would probably be the low side for their body count (either active killing or death by consequence), yet people think extreme left is good? Yes, the same's true for the right.
It's time people stopped being rabidly left or right and concentrated on trying to help everyone. Something neither extreme left or right do. Even extreme left is solely concerned with helping yourself to everything. Only have to look at any Socialist or Communist state, where there are still rich and poor.
Not saying extreme right is any better. That's the problem with extremes......
Biting the hand that feeds IT
