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To: MtnClimber

I had a roommate in college, a refugee from Argentina who married an American girl for a green card or something and he INSISTED Juan Peron was a RIGHT-WING fascist leader of a military JUNTA, yadda yadda.

Sounded like gobbledegook to me then as well as now, but I was premed, did all my poly-sci while earning an AA at Monterey Peninsula college a decade earlier while stationed at Ft. Ord in the 70’s, supported Prop 10, other reasonable government-restricting legislation, voted for Reagan, etc., but never considered myself a republican and absolutely despised Jimmy Carter..

So I’ve read about his takeover (Peron’s, not Carter’s), command/control economy, “the disappearing” of political enemies, social indoctrination/propaganda, etc., over the decades and if anything, Peron was a CLASSIC leftist/socialist.

Am I wrong?


3 posted on 06/15/2024 5:31:32 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: normbal

I also think Peron was a leftist, statist.


4 posted on 06/15/2024 5:52:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: normbal

When a populist gets elected or seizes power, there is a never ending chain of economically destructive policies on programs to patronize their base. Their base never truly prospers, remains poor and dependent . The country withers as capital is squandered on non productive projects. Yet this political formula has resulted in populist/celebrities and their ilk keeping power for prolonged periods. Currently the US is suffering this phenomena.


5 posted on 06/15/2024 5:54:33 AM PDT by allendale
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To: normbal

Jill Biden reminds me a little of Evita.


9 posted on 06/15/2024 6:20:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: normbal
Peron was a CLASSIC leftist/socialist.

Am I wrong?


and so was Hitler and many others.

Words are redefined by others and our selves. But once we are united then things can happen.

What is a conservative?

https://kirkcenter.org/russell-kirk/thought/

https://kirkcenter.org/conservatism/ten-conservative-principles/

The best definition of conservative I can find. Print it and give you your friends and enemies

21 posted on 06/15/2024 7:44:45 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: normbal

Fascism is just another branch/brand name of leftism.

Also, NAZI Socialism is another branch/brand name of leftism.


22 posted on 06/15/2024 7:45:47 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: normbal

Peron was a leftist. As was Mussolini, and the National Socialist German Workers Party ( Nazis)

Communists declared that any socialists who did not obey the USSR were fascists.


27 posted on 06/15/2024 8:11:00 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: normbal

Juan Peron was a Nazi admirer who used the Military Junta to take over Argentina, aided and abetted by his wife, the former whore Evita.


28 posted on 06/15/2024 8:53:02 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (“Who is John Galt?”)
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To: normbal

The thing is, leftist/socialist/communists are all fascists, and dictators. They are for GOVERNMENT control of everything - which is absurd.

Conservative, ‘right wingers’, etc. are for minimalist government, and self determination. Rule of law equally applied to all, not just the ‘peons’.


34 posted on 06/15/2024 10:27:28 AM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: normbal

A dictator from the right is usually authoritarian while one from the left is usually totalitarian.


45 posted on 06/15/2024 6:40:44 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: normbal
I had a roommate in college, a refugee from Argentina who married an American girl for a green card or something and he INSISTED Juan Peron was a RIGHT-WING fascist leader of a military JUNTA, yadda yadda.

You sure he wasn't talking about Chile's Pinochet? At least that one led a military junta, and was somewhat to the right of center.

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47 posted on 06/16/2024 9:05:54 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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