Edited sentence: In part because of his involvement on the Democratic Underground forum, some posters on rival forums Free Republic and Conservative Underground have charged Pitt with extremism.Pitt alleges that this Third American Empire started in the aftermath of the US victory over the Soviets in a famous 1980 Olympic hockey match.Pitt's prose is often a target of ridicule by those on both the left and right.Specifically, they point to one of his posts on DU, which seems to suggest that America is in the middle of it's "Third Empire" (which was interpreted as a reference to Adolf Hitler's Third Reich by some)