[wastedyears]

I can’t understand why the media puts fascists on the right side of politics. There’s nothing “republican” about them.

[kearnyirish2]

“I can’t understand why the media puts fascists on the right side of politics. There’s nothing “republican” about them.”

“Repubican” means a lot of things; in France during their revolution, and in Spain during their civil war, “republicans” were the far left. They wanted to replace traditional monarchies with egalitarian utopias (in theory, not practice). Basically, the “right” protected private property rights and the right to worship in Europe in the 1930s, while the “left” promoted secularism and re-distribution (the secularism being the object to remove any preferred treatment, such as subsidies, control of education, or even exemption from taxes for the Church).

“Fascists” were right-wing governments, such as Franco, Salazar, and Mussolini envisioned; they didn’t have the racial ideology of the Nazis, and were domestic right-wing reactions to attempted communist takeovers of Spain, Portugal, and Italy respectively (Hitler himself was such a reaction as well, but his agenda went far further as far as a “new world order”). They suppressed individual liberties as a means of stabilizing their countries, rather than see them fall to communist mobs. While Mussolini’s government fell with the fall in Axis fortunes during the war, the other two survived for decades as stable countries in an unstable post-WWII Europe.

[Lancey Howard]

Here in America the National Socialist Democrat Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Democrat Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP or simply “the Nazi Party”, or even more simply “the Democrats”) use strongarm tactics to remove Christianity from public view, populate the universities and newsrooms to rewrite history and propagandize the daily news, attack traditional cultural institutions like marriage, the nuclear family, and even the Boy Scouts, and personally destroy scientists and professors who do not toe the line with regard to Democrat Party doctrine on abortion, embryonic stem cells, the environment, and “global warming”.

Naturally, imposing rationed state-controlled health care on the masses, threatening to suppress opposing opinion and free speech through a “fairness doctrine”, and using quasi-terrorist tactics to stonewall any attempt to roll back socialism (for example, legislators in Wisconsin fleeing the state with a clap on the back from Fuhrer Ubama in order to prevent a vote on pending legislation) perfectly fits the modus operandi of America's own 21st century Nazi party.

In other words, America’s Democrats are operating in EXACTLY the same way the original version of their party operated in Germany during the 1930s.

[muawiyah]

Media know nothing.

BTW, the "right' on the traditional layout designed by the French parliament are ROYALISTS.

[SampleMan]

The media loved the Soviets. When fascists attacked the Soviets, the mediots started describing them as “far right”, even though they were nearly identical.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Nazis were totalitarian, militaristic, authoritarian and nationalistic. Republicans tend to be more nationalistic and support the military more than the Democrats. Authoritarian tendencies could be a toss up, but in my mind hard core Democrats are more authoritarian than any Republicans.

Clearly, Democrats are much more totalitarian than republicans.

[OneWingedShark]

I can’t understand why the media puts fascists on the right side of politics. There’s nothing “republican” about them.

I'm not so sure about that, I mean have you taken a look at who the Republican-party's anointed for nomination: Romney!
If Romney wins, it'll signal to the Republican-party "it's ok who you put out there, we'll blindly vote for him"; in short the Republican-party isn't very Right-winged at all right now, and selecting Romney only tells them that it doesn't have to be.

[ArrogantBustard]

I can’t understand why the media puts fascists on the right side of politics.

It's pure communist propaganda, and the media are communists.

Even in Weimar Germany, the communists and national socialists hated and fought each other. They did so not out of disagreement but of rivalry. Bloody-handed, bloody-minded, bloodthirsty totalitarians don't like competition.

Following WWII, the Soviet communists continued the charade, doing everything they could to distance themselves (and their brand of socialism) from the disgraced and defeated national socialist enemy. Their fellow travelers in the western media and academia carried water for them.

The charade continues to this day, even though Soviet communism is gone.

Sadly, even some FReepers try to rationalize that somehow fascists and communists were some sort of opposite. It's nonsense.