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Yeah, but their knee-jerk habit of using the terms "right-wing" and "Nazi" together like a four-syllable word is particularly annoying. To call someone a socialist, statist, left-wing Nazi for wanting to abolish your 2nd Amendment rights is a far cry from calling a Republican a right-wing Nazi for wanting to slow the growth of government.

This reminds me of the legend of Robin Hood. The Marxist interpretation is that Robin Hood's band of merry men stole from the rich to give to the poor. The conservative interpretation is that Robin Hood was about resisting an arrogant state that monopolized the land, overtaxed its populace (although not as much as ours is taxed now, for whatever that's worth), and treated them as subjects with no right to self-protection.

"The Marxist interpretation is that Robin Hood's band of merry men stole from the rich to give to the poor. The conservative interpretation is that Robin Hood was about resisting an arrogant state that monopolized the land, overtaxed its populace."

I always thought that the story was about a bunch of guys who got to wear cool looking green tights, shoot bows and arrows at bad guys, live out in the woods, and generally get the inside track with all of the babes.

Sheesh ... the story must be a little bit deeper than I thought.