[The Scourge of Yazid]

Actung! Mein Fuhrer, vat vill ve do ven ven fundeng for za Amerikkorps program unts? Ve must act immediattly! If ve doont act fast ve even mite lose ze Hope Scholarships! Zend Goebbels immediately! Ze is the most hotsie-totsie Nazi zat I've vever seen!

On a slightly more serious note, I believe that the government regulatory programs initiated by the National Socialist Party in pre-war Germany were merely an extension of the Bismarckian predilection for the ideology of corporatism.

If I'm not mistaken, Bismarck was the original paleo-con.

No?

[swilhelm73]

If I'm not mistaken, Bismarck was the original paleo-con.

American and European conservatives are rather dramtically different, and especially not-British ones of more then 50 years ago. The root of the issue is what they seek to conserve.

Bismarck invented the modern welfare state to gain the support of the lower classes to maintain the monarchy (a fact lost on most ignorant leftists). Basically the left of his time agreed to trade voting rights for limited socialism.

While Bismarck was trying to conserve the monarchy, the predecessors of the current American conservative movement, who were called *liberals* at the time, were creating, expanding, and maintaining the free society and representative government as described in the US Constitution.

So modern American conservatives conserve freedom. Rather different from the monarchists of 1800s continental Europe.