Excellent read.
He hated and ranted about Israel, Bush, ‘neocons’, and Zionism. He said Christians ruined the Roman empire, he was a 9/11 truther...
He sounds more like Rosie O’Donnell’.
Closer to 0bama than any patriotic American I know of.
He’s just a radical, you know, like Bill Ayers.
Thanks for writing this. We cannot let the left define terms for us.
Here’s the government/media/leftist rule:
If they’re violent, they’re right wing extremists.
Brunn was obviously a right wing nut. Right wing is the nazi-like-facist side. Commie-socialists are the left wing. Brunn was more of a nazi than commie.
I’m not real sure who first set this out, but if the universe is curved stuff is right, then left and right will meet somewhere sometime but that depends on whether the cat lives or dies.
parsy, who is an expert on this kind of fuzzy stuff.
Good points all. The coverage of this is bizarre, but then, what would you expect. In addition, I think Obama’s disruptive and disturbing policies are stirring up the nuts in general.
Only Leftists need to generalize everyone into group associations. This guy acted on his own. Anyone who generalizes him across sixty million other law abiding citizens is only trying to create a political movement to criminalize those sixty million people - and history shows that’s exactly what the Left does.
Of course, if a Muslim, say, just starts shooting at some soldiers, then of course the Muslim acted on his own. But that’s an obvious exception, so Leftists don’t bother mentioning it.
A lot of confusion goes back to the European (especially French) definitions, where the whole left/right terminology started. Right generally meant monarchist/statist/class based social tradition. Conservatism meant upholding that status quo. Left meant classic liberalism, social equality, seperation of church and state, etc.
In America the European style right were the Tories, and they left after the Revolution. The country was founded on the classic liberalism of Locke and Jefferson. Conservatism in America meant conserving the classic liberal values on which the country was founded.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the left in both Europe and America changed from libalism to Marxism and other forms of socialism. Classic liberals in Europe became the middle, and in America, conservatives ironically became the sole defenders of classic liberalism.
Fascicm in Europe became associated with the right because of it’s statist authoritarianism. So neo-fascists in America are generally lumped in with “the right” because of that. They really don’t have anything to do with either the mainstream right or the left in America though.
Great post, thank you. Hopefully more leftists will read things like this and think about what “leftwing” really stands for. As a former leftist I can attest that a lot of brainwshing is involved in subscribing to that belief system.