[unspun]

Rather than fascism being a leftist abomination, I think it is more the characateur of a rightist ideology. Fascism is what happens when conservatives try to dot all the I's and cross all the T's and be "philosophically correct".

Actually, conservatism and liberalism never did make thorough sense and are now anachronistic, to boot.

The right and the left are more essentially, what Beck portrays.

The Right is about the sovereign and free moral agent (and requires individuals with moral compasses, who govern by rights, as laid out by America's founders and their philosophical/theological antecedents (Locke, Sidney, etc.).

The Left is about, as Mussolini said, if I'm not butchering it, "all for the state and nothing but the state." That is the result of altruistic government empowerment, since power tends to corrupt the powerful to gain more.

[Tublecane]

“The Left is about, as Mussolini said, if I’m not butchering it, ‘all for the state and nothing but the state.’”

The actual quote is:

“Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”

Or, in the original:

“Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato”