“to the right of Genghis Khan”
Never heard the phrase prior.
Smacks of leftist trope (and yet another distraction).
“They make a desert and call it peace.”
— Tacitus
Neither the Romans nor the Mongols were nice people. One might expect the Pope to understand that.
Rush Limbaugh was always an Attila the Hun man himself.
It’s “to the Right of Attila the Hun”
But he is the national hero of Mongolia for cultural reasons, and Mongolia is currently a Communist country.
Conclusion: Pope kissing commie ass again, but no conclusion about Genghis Khan.
Aside from murdering millions, Chingis Khan did allow the free exercise of religion and a low flat 10% tax on trade.
So he had that going for him.
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Other than the military leaders of the Israelites under God’s direction, Genghis Khan is my favorite of all time, no apologies ever. If you wanted to confront him or cause a problem, regret was the last thing you knew. People who got stomped by him deserved it for their evil, and even he himself said so.
It was the Soviets who first start calling anyone who disagreed with them “right wing”, even those who were further to the left than the Soviets themselves.
And it is the ideological descendants of the Soviets who continue this practice.
The real left/right dichotomy is between collectivists vs individualists. Collectivism involves elites ruling (supposedly) for the benefit of the collective vs a decentralized system where individual rights are paramount. Of course Elites almost never govern for the benefit of the collective despite their claims and almost always govern to benefit themselves.
Genghis Khan, as an elitist, is therefore by current definitions left wing. Of course classic liberalism was once left wing but now is considered right wing by Marxists.
Pope Francis is the first anti-Catholic Pope - much like Obama was the first Anti-American President. Both worked (and are working) to destroy the entity they are/were supposed to be leading.
>>Except, of course, that we wouldn’t dream of doing that because right-wingers think their opponents are mistaken, not evil.
That’s because most “conservatives” are rear-guard leftists. They agree on the destination of the left’s “progress”, and disagree only on how quickly we should get there.
I like to use the scale “More Gov/Less Liberty vs Less Gov/More Liberty.