[Paladins Prayer]

This article really makes you think.

[pyx]

This article really makes you think.

No it doesn't. The LEFT has being attempting to distance itself from their shared ideology with Hitler and the National Socialst Worker's Party (Nazis) for decades. The LEFT should embrace and be honest about its ideological beginnings instead of constantly attempting to conceal and hide them.

Yet again, the LEFT is trying to control the language. The LEFT murdered over 120 MILLION actual human beings last century. This is a fact they can not evade.

[RipSawyer]

Racism in modern day America is almost exclusively a product of the left.

You may identify the left by their main trait which is the projection onto others of their own hatred while imagining themselves to be the very soul of sweetness and light, filled with the milk of human kindness. They preach of their compassion while hardly ever lifting a finger to help another. They are generally the living definition of hypocrisy.

[ClearCase_guy]

I prefer Collectivist and Individualist.
Either individuals have rights, or groups have rights. I do not believe that both can be true.

Affirmative Action is a group right.
The right to bear arms is an individual right.

Supporters of socialized medicine are claiming a group right.
Supporters of freedom of religion are expressing an individual right.

[cuban leaf]

[cuban leaf]

My take: What is called the left in one country would be considered to be the right in another. And vice versa.

[Tribune7]

Robert Byrd was a Democrat.

[Verginius Rufus]

Mussolini’s fascism did have an ethnic component as far as non-Italian ethnic minorities was concerned. For siding with the Allies in WWI, Italy gained former Austro-Hungarian territories which had about half a million Slovenes and Croats living in them—the Italian government tried to force these people to speak only Italian and to change their surnames to look Italian. I’m not sure about the German-speaking population of the South Tyrol, whether the same measures were taken there.

[bootless]

Rather than left or right, I’d like to echo President Reagan: It’s either up, toward liberty and self-determination, or down, into the depths of tyranny.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Left and right are a matter of viewpoint. If you see the political continuum as linear the two will never meet. If however, you view the continuum as circular, if you travel far enough left you will soon find yourself among the far right. This is not unusual as left and right quibble about philosophical points which are not allowed to tarnish the fact that both political flavors use the same tactical methods.

To the inmate, it matters not who's jail you are in. The fact that you are locked up means that the State is holding your rights, not you. Left or right, the view from the bottom is pretty much the same.

Regards,
GtG

PS Didn't Barry Goldwater's speech writer eventually wind up living on an old tugboat in a commune with a gaggle of hippies?

[WPaCon]

Great article.

BTTT