[quote=livinincali]The issue with measuring extremism is it’s relative to your own personal beliefs. If you’re pretty far left you won’t view any left leaning policies as extreme. In addition you will find more conservative policies to be extreme in contrast to your own views.

Take for example a wedding photographer that finds two men kissing offensive or something worse. In some people’s minds it’s perfectly fine for a gay couple to force that photographer to photograph that wedding under threat of discrimination lawsuit. It would be pretty extreme if I could force that photographer to take nude pics of a fat ugly chick. The photographer might find both things equally offensive but in one case we can probably agree that it would be pretty extreme and in the other we might not. It’s all relative to your own point of view.

If somebody suggested that all private property held as rentals should be taken over by the government so they could set the prices at affordable levels some of you might not view that as being extreme. The reality of such a proposal would be a significant step to outright communism, which most people would find extreme.[/quote]+1
You said it much better than I. I totally agree. Where you stand depends on where you sit.