The Right - I'm Not Silent on the Left

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i'm more politically alligned with the right than you are. But that's not to dodge matters simply say, as i say about people not reading me. I mean, any one who reads what i write will know that i have consistently critiqued my own side. There are on the american right things which do not exist anything like the proximity to the political centre on the American right. What exists in britain? Well, give yo a cuple of examples. Obvious one is conspiracy theories. Another one isie, very unpleasant forms of prejudice, which, again, would totally knock you out of the race in the u k. It's because i don't want

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