I was just on a website that had the term ‘Radical Right Wing Agenda’ as something they were fighting against. I consider myself conservative, but I don’t feel radical, I don’t lump myself into ‘right wing’ and I don’t feel like I’ve got an agenda [politically speaking]. However, I know that there are people out there that are matching the said title. I don’t know what that title references though, so if you feel like you’ve got a clear definition of this term, please leave it in the comments. I just want to understand if this is an actually small group like the people who put up godhatesfags.com, or are they referring to anyone conservatively oriented in general. The problem with these sorts of generalizations is that they require people to ask deeper questions to try to understand.

In my history classes we would use the term ‘platform’ to describe the agenda that a certain historical politician had. Is having an agenda bad? I don’t think so. Clearly the people whose site I was reading had an agenda, they were against something and wanted to stop that something from being propogated. I think that the talking heads, political analysts and radio show hosts need to be very, very careful when they speak of ‘agendas’ and various other ‘lumping’ terms that reduce people from being people to statistics, ‘us verses them’ or any other thing besides United States (or other country) citizens who hold beliefs that they, by United States Constitutional standards, have a God given right to hold.

So, with that in mind: what’s the definition, and is it a fair definition?