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“goosestepping to the right”

One little quibble, if I may...

Nazism is NOT “The right”. “Nazi” is short for National SOCIALIST. The absolute right would be no government at all.

Unfortunately, the “left” has labeled the Nazis as “Right Wing” and then lump all of us conservatives in with them.

Otherwise, Dan hits it out of the park, as usual!

Unfortunately, the “left” has labeled the Nazis as “Right Wing” and then lump all of us conservatives in with them.

I saw a speech given by Daniel Hannan at a British university a while back. He was pointing out that everyone knew that the nazis were socialists until sometime in the 1960s the shift to labeling them right wingers began.

The only difference between Nazism and Marxism is semantics. “Nuance”, to use the favorite word of Harfy. Both are tyranny. Fascism is a little to the right, but still of the left, since it makes a joke of private property and civil liberties, thus still of the left.
No government at all (the real far right) is not possible due to the sin nature of man (a concept that I am sure the Founding Fathers were familiar with it), and saw that the best would probably be minarchism (the minimum amount of government to maintain civil order, if we must use terms using the suffix “-ism”). Still then there was the balancing influence of the Judeo-Christian culture as the guiding moral force, which included the accountability of those holding office. Today we are in danger of losing that compass, some say we have already lost it.

Unfortunately, the “left” has labeled the Nazis as “Right Wing” and then lump all of us conservatives in with them.

That is a false characterization of left and right.

Both Communism and socialism are based on centralized control. They are both leftist.

The right is characterized by decentralized control of the government.

The answer to the conundrum and the unspoken thing that Gunter Grass dared not speak of may lie in a letter from the leader of another German leftist terrorist cell, “goosestepping to the right”
One little quibble, if I may...
Nazism is NOT “The right”. “Nazi” is short for National SOCIALIST. The absolute right would be no government at all.
Unfortunately, the “left” has labeled the Nazis as “Right Wing” and then lump all of us conservatives in with them.

Otherwise, Dan hits it out of the park, as usual!

The criticism is only valid if one reads it paragraph by paragraph and doesn't make each a part of the whole.

He shortly after states:
"The answer to the conundrum and the unspoken thing that Gunter Grass dared not speak of may lie in a letter from the leader of another German leftist terrorist cell,..."

He used the march right/march left bit to tell us that they made two mistakes - one by thinking that they should have been further Left and two that they only saw the two choices when not marching was also a viable choice.

Greenfield is under no allusion that the Nazis were/are anything but left-wing entities.