Posted on 06/25/2023 1:44:13 AM PDT by spirited irish
Coming to a theater near you boys and girls....just ask Al Gore, he'll tell you.!
You’re right that both fascism and communism are on the left of the political spectrum in an absolute and definable terms. “
However, political terms can be defined in absolute terms and relative terms. In absolute terms, fascism, liberalism, and communism are all to the left as defined by an individual’s relationship to the government.
Political terms can also be defined in relative terms, as in relation to you. We are both conservative, but one of us is going to be to the right or left of the other within the continuum of conservatism. In absolute terms, we are both conservative. In relative terms, one of us is closer to being a liberal. :)
This is how liberals define right and left, relative to them. Fascism is on the right to the liberal, because liberals are to the left of fascism. They are to the right of communism. That is why, to the liberal, fascism is on the right and communism is on the left, because it is relative to them. In absolute terms, all three are on the hard right, but liberalism exists on a narrow band that is between fascism and communism.
End times scenarios being set up.
That’s because individualism is so dead in Europe that they have John Locke encased in a tomb of concrete with a metal fence around his tomb to keep him there.
Seriously, look at his grave. It’s searchable. :)
Actually, the world......
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin
Cuba, rebels fighting to oust Batista.
When Castro came riding into town in a convertible.. in his fatigues, the crowd cheered and followed the vehicle to town center. All seemed good.
A few weeks later, Castro announced he was a communist. He confiscated all weapons from individuals and then began to take their homes and businesses. Many swam or had a boat and went to Florida. Doctors and businessmen started over again, if they could .. and if they made the swim or boat trip.
That’s how it’s done. And I want to.. one more time.. warn everyone.. if joe biden and his ilk, get the control they are after, this would be your fate. Plus all children would be in state schools.
In other words... your life would never be the same and you would not be making any decisions for your family.. everything you had and everything you hoped to have.. would be in the hands of a party that would consider every person their property. Slaves again in the land that was free.
Locke is not and never has been important in continental Europe. Its one of those English things, like a an occasional fad for tweed.
His influence was limited I agree, because the Aristocracy was not willing to let go of the power they had.
However, to ensure his ideas would never take root, they buried him in a concrete tomb with a metal fence around him. If you dug him up, he’d probably have a stake in his chest and a brick in his mouth as well.
The Dutch learned their lessons well from the Nazis. They should rename it the Dutch Nuremberg Law. Next step - round up internment camps for their former citizens (after they take it away).
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I meant hard left. Unfortunately, a lack of an editing button I can’t fix it.
Fascism, liberalism, socialism, and communism are all hard variants of the left.
I suspect it will not travel that far. As bankers take back houses with mortgages not being paid, they as a class -- think hedge funds types as well -- will not be moved to "give back" to the community. Rather I imagine we see the likes of the REITSs problem showing itself in San Francisco, wherein walking away from areas will cause financial messes government cannot clean up. When we see the downtown area of SF being actually converted to illegal immigrant and drug-using homeless "homes," then your vision will be proved. Rather I think the pendulum will swing, because tax revenues on "productive" properties are all that;s propping things up. A Mayor Breed versus the banks holding distressed commercial properties will not even be a contest. Those controlling assets will not easily roll over.
In 1990 REASON magazine published “The Green Road to Serfdom”. Most people don’t want to be bothered with truth about destructive movements, especially early on. Here we are 33 years later!
https://reason.com/1990/04/01/the-green-road-to-serfdom/
Communism isn’t pretty. They want the middle class to be woke and be broke. Bastards. Everything you have belongs to the Government. The Kenyan biatch, O’Bama came pimped that BS and the ignorant honky morons bought into it.
In NYC, the leftist gov’t of King Adams is booting US Vets from hotels, and giving the rooms to criminal illegal alien invaders, who trash the hotels, and make them a felony hellhole.
It is extremely difficult to live without the government.
You got you if you own a house or even land..or have a driver’s license..the big lie is it’s all by choice. When it’s really ..in the beginning .. gentle force.
Until the corrupt government officials get in over their heads.. and they always do.. and then they have to start playing rough
Moderately priced homes cannot be snapped up by speculators or Black Rocks.
The left doesn’t stop until they’ve laid waste and millions of people have died. It’s the nature of the left and their desire to perfect mankind.
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