With racism? No. Cognitive dissonance? Yes. Though, I imagine we view what's extreme left wing differently. I, for instance, would be (-4,-3) on the political graph. When right wing calls me extremist, that tells me for them to consider me the extreme left, they view themselves as moderate. They think I'm (-10 , y). Meaning they are 7 >= x >= 4 if that's true, then the reality is, they're the extremists. Where x is actually 11 >= x >= 8