[Paladin2]

Just start calling the ‘rats Democratic National Socialists.

[concerned about politics]

This is why the public schools (communist teachers union) stopped teaching history in schools. Instead, they teach Social(ism) studies, and glorify it (Mmmmm Mmmmmm Mmmmmm barack hussain oboma).
Don't believe me? As your kids what they're learning in school every day (Yes, even in your kids school. Denial is an ugly thing). It only takes a few minutes for you to to find out I'm right.

This is why American kids are so messed up in the head. They live in a communist world from pre-K to 12th grade (and maybe into college), but when they're not in the compounds, they live in the real world. They find out humans are not really mind controlled robots and part of a great government collective. They find out real humans are........real humans!

[1010RD]

Watch this if you’re the least bit confused on what governments and politics are:

http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment/

[Jeff Chandler]

[Colonel_Flagg]

It’s much easier to understand if you look at the political spectrum as a line instead of a circle. Totalitarian philosophies (Communism, Fascism, Nazism, liberalism) are at the bottom of the circle while free philosophies are at the top.

Conservatism calls for limited government. The truest right-wing philosophy believes in the God-given rights and freedom of the individual.

Fascism, Nazism, Communism and liberalism call for the individual to be subjected, in varying degrees, to the will of the state. Hence they are related philosophies.

[GraceG]

The RATS are really, really, good at Projection because they have been using it for so long to cover their sinful ways inthe eyes of others...

[The_Reader_David]

The real reason is that so long as the Soviet Union existed, “right wing” had the coherent meaning “opposed to the Comintern”, while “left wing” meant supporting the goals of the Comintern. Thus Nazis and Fascists whose economic and social programs were largely identical to Stalin’s, along with monarchists, clericalists (of whatever Christian confession), Tories, free marketeers of the sort that used to be called “liberal” who are now, in America, called conservatives, were all “right wing”, while “fellow-travelers” (liberals in current usage) along with Communists who toed the Party line out of Moscow were “left wing”.

(Yes, yes, I know they originally had to do with seating the French parliament at the time of the Revolution, but that meaning is long gone.)

The usage stuck because the Marcusian multiculturalist left has the same opponents the Comintern did, even though for practical reasons (socialism and communism don’t work, while fascism does) they have all become fascists in terms of their economic program.

[x]

It has to do with street fighting between Communists and Fascists or Nazis back in the 1920s and 1930s. In those days, Communists and Socialists or Social Democrats defined the Left and anybody who opposed both parties was liable to be categorized as right-wing. Also, the fact that Mussolini and Hitler didn't nationalize land or industry or commerce contributed to that judgment.

Maybe better than try to pin fascism or nazism on the right or the left would be to recognize that this whole "right-left" thing is a bit arbitrary and subjective and inadequate to reality. What was left or right in the 19th or early 20th century doesn't bear much resemblance to what's considered left or right today. And right and left may not tell us what's really important to know. Too many different views are liable to be bundled together as right-win or left-wing, and there are too many opportunities for complacency and self-righteous preening over one's own superiority.