It's funny, because aside from the small bit of Cuties apologia, I would say that rabid anti-pedophilia discourse is one thing that both the right and the left have in common. The headline should be "Why are the Right AND Left obsessed with pedophilia?" It's something that disturbs me, as well, because we all know what sits on the hard drives of the people who can't stop talking about CP: Actual CP.
I guarantee that regardless of your political leanings, any suggestion that pedophiles are anything less than Demons Made Flesh almost instantly marks you as suspicious. But, as I said, if you're too rabid anti-pedo, you're also suspicious. I therefore don't quite understand the roots of the obsession on either side, honestly, given the volatility of the subject matter. There are even some prolific posters on the Farms that cannot go more than two posts without mentioning pedos somehow, and it likely has very little to do with their politics.
Either way, thank god the Cuties hysteria is dying down, because it was starting to get really boring.