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To: AZLiberty

The Nazis were never far right, but they were racist. Their racism was used as a community organizing technique.

Socialists (actually fascists ) cannot be far right and far left at the same time.


19 posted on 10/15/2011 12:42:31 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Eva
If only the past 100 or so years of semantic bastardization had not happened we might have some political descriptors that enlightened rather than confused.

"Left" and "Right" are meaningless. They originally just referred to which side of the House of Commons the Whigs (left) and Tories (right) sat on from the perspective of the Speaker. The Whigs were "liberal" in the classic sense (what we now call Conservative and Libertarian) and the Tories were "conservative" in that they had no intention of losing centuries of British class privilege to a bunch of peasants or a pack of barely literate knuckle dragging colonists in the American wilderness.

Liberal now is what used to be called Fabian Socialist and Conservative what used to be called "Liberal". It's an endless shell game intended to make Socialists (and other Statists) sound like they believe in liberty and people who actually believe in individual liberty sound like they want to go back to the days of yore (Democratic Party supported slavery and National Socialist Workers' Party "Heil Hitler" salutes).

But try explaining all this to someone with a typical modern public school education, or even worse, a Urinalist.

35 posted on 10/15/2011 1:48:41 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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