FC. Hater dupes HAVE to stay on Fox/Rush/Savage etc etc etc to get their idiocy/hate fix. You get more fact on CBS etc PBS BBC newspapers in 5 minutes than a year of RW BS.
Your heroes are bought off liars. I know because I try all media all the time. And Fox Rush etc etc are a disgrace.
FD. of course. CBS IS cowardly corporate, true. Present both side arguments with a straight face, even the RW's.
How do you not know the political spectrum? That is Intro to Political Theory. Pretty basic stuff. Your subjective bullet points don't change that.
Well....now for the truth.....you'd best take notes:
Here is a little quiz that will show just how wrong you are:
Let's begin with definitions.
Nazism, communism, socialism..Liberalism, Progressivism,.and fascism....
1. Which stem from the works of Karl Marx?
2. Which is a form of command and control big government?
3. Which has no problem with genocide, actual or figurative, as an accepted procedure on its political enemies?
4. Which is based on the collective over the individual?
5. Which oppresses and/or slaughters its own citizens as pro forma (including depriving them of a living)....?
6. Which represents totalitarian governance?
7. Which believes that mandating/dictating every aspect of their citizen's lives is their prerogative?
8. Which aims for an all-encompassing state that centralizes power to perfect human nature by controlling every aspect of life
9. Which restricts free speech and thought?
10. Which can be summed up in Hegel's “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of obeying without protest”
And, of course, they all are do...they are all consubstantial.
Nazism
Communism
Socialism
Fascism
Progressivism
Liberalism
How about pointing out which of them are defenders of religious, political, and economic freedom, and recognize the individual as the most important element of society?
Right....none of 'em.
Only right wing philosophies...i.e., conservatism.
Now, take notes, you dunce, and I'll explain how and why you've been convinced to believe a myth.
1. At the start of the depression, Mussolini, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Stalin were powerful leaders who many looked to based on the belief that capitalism had failed the world.
'2. All four were megalomaniacs and none believed that that there could or should be any restrictions on their power.
a. Roosevelt's guru, Rex Tugwell (look him up) spoke of how he despised the Constitution:
It is a fact that none of the New Dealers were constitutionalists. Roosevelt's economist, Rexford Tugwell said: 'Any people who must be governed according to the written codes of an instrument which defines the spheres of individual and group, state and federal actions must expect to suffer from the constant maladjustment of progress. A life' which changes and a constitution for governance which does not must always raise questions which are difficult for solution."
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p.63
3. The Nazis claimed that they could have written FDR's book:
a. May 11, 1933, the Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter, (People’s Observer): “Roosevelt’s Dictatorial Recovery Measures.”
b. And on January 17, 1934, “We, too, as German National Socialists are looking toward America…” and “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” comparable to Hitler’s own dictatorial ‘Fuhrerprinzip.’
c. And “[Roosevelt], too demands that collective good be put before individual self-interest. Many passages in his book ‘Looking Forward’ could have been written by a National Socialist….one can assume that he feels considerable affinity with the National Socialist philosophy.”
d. The paper also refers to “…the fictional appearance of democracy.”
4. Early on, FDR made his choice....Stalin: he recognized the USSR during his first year in office....1933...well before Hitler attacked his brother dictator (1941)
5. But....when the horrors of the Holocaust became known....FDR and the other Progressives/Liberals jumped like rats leaving a sinking ship....they had to distance themselves from their partner Leftwingers....
a. "Before WW II, the same folks who championed Progressivism, viewed fascism as a noble economic agenda, and praised Mussolini. It was the horrors of the Holocaust that required both the rapid retreat from associations with the term fascism, and the rebranding by John Dewey of progressivism as liberalism.
W.E.B.DuBois suggested that National Socialism seemed an excellent model for economic organization.
http://www.ghi-dc.org/files/publications/bu_supp/supp5/supp5_099.pdf
6. Having control of the schools and the media allowed the Liberals/Progressives/Democrats to claim that the Nazis were the opposite side of the aisle....'Rightwingers'...and true fools accepted that, even though 'Nazi' was a contraction of 'National Socialist.'
7. BTW....FDR's BFF, Stalin, had taught Hitler how to build concentration camps, and fed him the resources for his Blitzkrieg....
Everything in this post is true and accurate: check it out, and see how you've been lied to.
How do you not know the political spectrum? That is Intro to Political Theory. Pretty basic stuff. Your subjective bullet points don't change that.
Well....now for the truth.....you'd best take notes:
Here is a little quiz that will show just how wrong you are:
Let's begin with definitions.
Nazism, communism, socialism..Liberalism, Progressivism,.and fascism....
1. Which stem from the works of Karl Marx?
2. Which is a form of command and control big government?
3. Which has no problem with genocide, actual or figurative, as an accepted procedure on its political enemies?
4. Which is based on the collective over the individual?
5. Which oppresses and/or slaughters its own citizens as pro forma (including depriving them of a living)....?
6. Which represents totalitarian governance?
7. Which believes that mandating/dictating every aspect of their citizen's lives is their prerogative?
8. Which aims for an all-encompassing state that centralizes power to perfect human nature by controlling every aspect of life
9. Which restricts free speech and thought?
10. Which can be summed up in Hegel's “The state says … you must obey …. The state has rights against the individual; its members have obligations, among them that of obeying without protest”
And, of course, they all are do...they are all consubstantial.
Nazism
Communism
Socialism
Fascism
Progressivism
Liberalism
How about pointing out which of them are defenders of religious, political, and economic freedom, and recognize the individual as the most important element of society?
Right....none of 'em.
Only right wing philosophies...i.e., conservatism.
Now, take notes, you dunce, and I'll explain how and why you've been convinced to believe a myth.
1. At the start of the depression, Mussolini, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Stalin were powerful leaders who many looked to based on the belief that capitalism had failed the world.
'2. All four were megalomaniacs and none believed that that there could or should be any restrictions on their power.
a. Roosevelt's guru, Rex Tugwell (look him up) spoke of how he despised the Constitution:
It is a fact that none of the New Dealers were constitutionalists. Roosevelt's economist, Rexford Tugwell said: 'Any people who must be governed according to the written codes of an instrument which defines the spheres of individual and group, state and federal actions must expect to suffer from the constant maladjustment of progress. A life' which changes and a constitution for governance which does not must always raise questions which are difficult for solution."
Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution," p.63
3. The Nazis claimed that they could have written FDR's book:
a. May 11, 1933, the Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter, (People’s Observer): “Roosevelt’s Dictatorial Recovery Measures.”
b. And on January 17, 1934, “We, too, as German National Socialists are looking toward America…” and “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” comparable to Hitler’s own dictatorial ‘Fuhrerprinzip.’
c. And “[Roosevelt], too demands that collective good be put before individual self-interest. Many passages in his book ‘Looking Forward’ could have been written by a National Socialist….one can assume that he feels considerable affinity with the National Socialist philosophy.”
d. The paper also refers to “…the fictional appearance of democracy.”
4. Early on, FDR made his choice....Stalin: he recognized the USSR during his first year in office....1933...well before Hitler attacked his brother dictator (1941)
5. But....when the horrors of the Holocaust became known....FDR and the other Progressives/Liberals jumped like rats leaving a sinking ship....they had to distance themselves from their partner Leftwingers....
a. "Before WW II, the same folks who championed Progressivism, viewed fascism as a noble economic agenda, and praised Mussolini. It was the horrors of the Holocaust that required both the rapid retreat from associations with the term fascism, and the rebranding by John Dewey of progressivism as liberalism.
W.E.B.DuBois suggested that National Socialism seemed an excellent model for economic organization.
http://www.ghi-dc.org/files/publications/bu_supp/supp5/supp5_099.pdf
6. Having control of the schools and the media allowed the Liberals/Progressives/Democrats to claim that the Nazis were the opposite side of the aisle....'Rightwingers'...and true fools accepted that, even though 'Nazi' was a contraction of 'National Socialist.'
7. BTW....FDR's BFF, Stalin, had taught Hitler how to build concentration camps, and fed him the resources for his Blitzkrieg....
Everything in this post is true and accurate: check it out, and see how you've been lied to.
None of that has much to do with the political spectrum. It's an obscure quote filled rant about President Roosevelt. Reactionary vs revolutionary. Left vs right. The terms you incorporate into your writing on a daily basis. It's been around since the French Revolution, beginning as markers for the seating arrangement in the Estates General. While it has changed over the years and new models have appeared (Nolan Chart/Pournelle Chart/Political Compass), most everyone has agreed Communists and Nazis are opposites. It is pretty hard to imagine the National Socialist Movement or the American Nazi Party proclaiming, or being seen as, champions of the left. In fact, this is the first time I've ever seen that position defended. Although, I did come across an old essay from American Thinker that tried to make that connection. Even that author said political scientists were unlikely to agree with his/her assessment.
As an aside, allow me to suggest you may want to tweak your writing a bit. It can be hard to differentiate between original thoughts and your recitation of facts and quotes. Emulating your favorite authors can be a useful writing exercise until you find your own voice/style. Ann Coulter is a good writer and intelligent but her work is all the same and amounts to: "Conservatives good. Liberals bad." and "I am right about everything. All the time." That gets old quickly. I know because I have read several of her works. Both you and Ms. Coulter should ask yourselves whether you are trying to establish domination in some sort of competition or participating in an exchange of ideas. Resist the urge to call people names. If you can't, do it at the END of your argument, otherwise, that's all your audience is going to hear. Judging by the volume of your posts and research, I think you could be pretty effective if you made some changes.
As I said, good luck proving what you can't.
The only liberal on this thread is probably me.
