The Menacing Rise of the 100 Percenters

SAN DIEGO -- The real threat to America is the 100 percenters.

They derail every public debate and send it careening into the ditch. They're the reason we never move a centimeter on the tough issues that require our lawmakers to show guts and character. These extremists and absolutists don't budge, negotiate or give into common sense.

You'll find such all-or-nothing types in both parties. They take no prisoners, and they're ready to die on every hill. They're not interested in forging compromise or finding solutions, and they're not satisfied with half a loaf. They don't really care about resolving problems and avoiding conflict. After all, problems and conflict are what keep them in business -- by helping them raise funds.

And while liberals and conservatives will never admit it, there's no difference between hard-liners on the right and those on the left. Those who see this phenomenon so clearly in the other camp are usually blind to its existence in their own.

I got a strong taste of this poison last year, courtesy of the abortion debate. Even though I'm pro-choice, I expressed outrage and disgust over videos that appeared to show individuals affiliated with Planned Parenthood talking cavalierly about selling the organs of aborted fetuses.

The organization hired an expensive Washington-based public relations firm to spin the whole messy affair and convince Americans that there was nothing to see behind the curtain and that the videos were "heavily edited."

Yet, I found the videos authentic -- and disturbing. For saying this, I was attacked by supporters of Planned Parenthood and told that I was never really pro-choice to begin with.

Well, what do you know about that? It just goes to show that sometimes we don't know our own minds.

Now, after the Orlando massacre where 29-year-old Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 53 others with a military-style rifle at a gay nightclub, the subject has turned to guns.

Of course, the real issue is something that the Democratic Party and its surrogates in the liberal media are too scared to confront -- the fact that radical Islamic terrorism has arrived on the home front.

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