[armymarinemom]

I just got an email from someone I think may be a troll about how anyone on the right is a NAZI. He/she/whatever quoted my post.

Good grief. It has bugged me too that the Nazi party is considered right. If you were to look at a chart of right and left on a sphere the Nazi party would be so far left they almost orbited the sphere.

[M1Tanker]

I could send you the email and response. Your views and mine seem similar on the whole fallacy of the "political spectrum". I submitted to the trolling emailer that the one dimensional political spectrum line is too "flatlanderish" and my view is it is more of a 3D Pyramid.

No matter where you start out on the base (Leftist/Modern Liberals or Conservative/Libertarian/Classical Liberals), the more extreme you get (ie, the more you travel up the pyramid), the more alike you become with someone traveling up the opposite side. Until your reach the top of the pyramid (ideologically) and everyone is the same: All raving extremist lunatics.

Hitler was a socialist, plain and simple. He was not all that different from Stalin in views and desired outcomes. Both men and their governments were VERY close to the top of the pyramid and I submit that they came from opposite ends of the same side of the left-wing base. This allowed NAZI Germany and the USSR to cooperate until Hitler betrayed Stalin a few years later.

My point to him/her was that the modern "mainstream" (visible on the media) leftists are pretty close to the summit of that pyramid and may reach it unless the "moderates" in the party retake control. With what happened to Lieberman (not a moderate, but moderate in comparison) shows that the left is continuing its slide to extremism.

And to the leftists reading this, after living through the Clinton years, President Bush's Administration is not anywheres close to the summit. I would argue it is at a very low level just above the base nearer to a moderate corner than most conservatives would like on certain issues (immigration being one) but much more maintream conservative on other issues (tax cuts for everyone, defending America against terrorists who publicly state "kill all non-muslims", rational energy policies, etc).

PS. My best to your children. I will hopefully be there with them in Iraq (maybe Afghanistan too) in a few months.