In article , "Ash Wyllie"
writes:

James Robinson opined

Wdtabor wrote:

The Nazi Party was the National SOCIALIST Party, fascsim is a left wing
philosophy, it never has had anything to do with the political right. It
is only characterized as such by entertainers with no knowledge of
history.

Someone doesn't know the definition of right and left.

Right wing philosophies tend to be conservative, want to retain
traditional values, and often advocate the establishment of an
authoritarian political order.

Left wing philosophies promote political change, and generally promote
greater freedom and well being of the common man.


Uh, No. Left and right and liberal and conservative have become distorted from
their dictionary meanings.

I can make it simpler. Look at the party NAMES.

Do you want to live in a Republic, with unalienable rights not even the power
of government is permitted to violate, or do you want to live in a Democracy,
where there is no right of yours that is not subject to transgression if 51% of
the populace lusts for what right protects?

That is what the political spectrum is all about, the degree to wich the
individual is soveriegn compared to the degree to which the collective is
soveriegn.

The order is, strarting with maximum individual rights

Libertarian Republican Democrat Nazi Socialist Ants

If you own yourself, and are willing to be responsible for yourself, you are a
Libertarian. If you are owned by the collective, and expect to be guided and
protected from your own failures by that collective, you are an ant.

Pick the degree to which you are your own person or to which you are willing to
trade away your liberty for economic security, and find your place on the
spectrum.

The only wild cards are the theocrats, who are collectivists who submit to
their invisible friend instead of the majority. They are currently allied with
the Republicans, but for 100 years before SCOTUS ****ed them off were allied
with the Democrats.

Note that theocrats are less dangerous when allied with the GOP, where they
have succeeded in passing almost nothing, than they were when they were allied
with the statist Democrats, and passed the Sodommy laws, Prostitution laws,
Drug laws and Prohibition. An alliance between Theocrats and Collectivists
gives you the Taliban, an alliance between theocrats and individualists gives
you some hurtful rhetoric but nothing more.

So, forget the spin and demagoguery, and decide where you are on the political
spectrum based on the single matter of personal freedom vs submission to the
collective and you will not go wrong.

--
Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG