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With the distinction between political idealogies and postions seeming to blur day by day it seems more difficult than ever to be able to say with conviction how ones political allegances lie. I actually wouldn't place myself in the Right sphere but believe that anyone who has any sort of capacity to do so should stay aware of agenda's and motivations of all alignments.

There's a reasonable article at Public Eye (a Political Right watchdog) that discusses in brief the form and makeup of the political right in the US.

Traditional Republican Party conservatism is composed of several sectors, including corporate conservatives, moderate conservatives, libertarians, and neoconservatives. In addition, the Political Right includes other sectors such as the Christian Right, the Patriot movement, and the Extreme Right.

The article talks of the emergence of organisations that publish content targetted directly at their right-oriented consumers:

A network of national and state-level conservative think tanks churn out educational and research materials for their activists and sympathetic politicians and journalists. This explains why campaigns over school vouchers, sentencing guidelines, union dues, and faith-based initiatives seem to sweep across the country in waves. The Right’s intellectual infrastructure began to be built in earnest in the late 1970s and matured in the mid 1980s.

Cites a couple of examples national think tanks:

And goes on to mention the Patriot movement located in the middle ground between Christian and Extreme Right, suggesting the millitia movement has largely collapsed, and refers the websites:

This is the first time I've bothered to do any sort of research into the topic, but as I author this page I note that I've been regularly reading at least two of the sites mentioned above over the last couple of years.

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