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Sorry Liberals, But The Nazis Were Progressive Leftists
townhall.com ^ | 9/25/2022 0001 hrs edt | Derek Hunter

Posted on 09/25/2022 8:54:19 AM PDT by rktman

You’ve probably known someone in your life who was simply full of it, right? A friend of a friend or acquaintance who lied constantly, burning a lot of calories trying to convince people to believe people of something that simply wasn’t so. That is how Democrats are on almost every issue, but there’s one in particular they desperately need to fool people on not only so they can use it as a weapon, but also so they can hide the horrors their political philosophy have committed against the people unfortunate enough to live under their absolute reign.

The real “big lie” is the creator of the concept of a big lie was somehow “right-wing.” The simple truth is every single despotic totalitarian is a left-winger. Under the umbrella of “progressive” lives socialism, communism and fascism. But to hide the reality of what their ideological brethren have committed, Democrats lie and say monsters like Mao, Stalin and Hitler were of the right. This is impossible.

There’s a very simple way to think about this: think of political philosophy as a line with a right and left direction. One side wants a government that does more, that grows in size and scope, and the other wants one with a shrinking, smaller government doing less. Where do all of those “isms” fall on that spectrum? They all feature massive government taxing the hell out of everyone, mandating behavior and regulating lives.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bloggers; comparisons; nationalsocialism; nazism
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To: R0CK3T; who_would_fardels_bear

Economic Freedom and Political/Personal Freedom are inextricably intertwined.

You cannot have one without the other. Which is why Socialism is Tyranny.

There is no way around it.


21 posted on 09/25/2022 10:29:58 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: rktman

What??! Are you trying to tell me the National Socialist German Workers Party wasn’t a bunch of Libertarians? I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!


22 posted on 09/25/2022 10:56:14 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: rlmorel

Exactly. It’s like saying just a little bit of tyranny will be enough, except once it begins all so-called Socialism or Progressivism, or whatever you call it, it ALWAYS ends up in Authoritarian/Totalitarian Dictatorship.


23 posted on 09/25/2022 10:57:54 AM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: rktman

Socialist Herbert Marcuse and a few other academics jumped on the Nazis-were-right-wing fantasy as soon as Hitler invaded the USSR.


24 posted on 09/25/2022 10:58:31 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: joshua c

Yes, he authorized and implemented MANY collectivist policies. He was all about the primacy of the collective.

I also think that one of the BIG reasons why everyone opposed to Democrats are made out to be NAZIs. NAZI’s were Bolsheviks great mortal enemy. When Democrats demonize everyone as a NAZI they’re deferring to their Bolshevik mindset.


25 posted on 09/25/2022 11:06:32 AM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: rktman

“Sorry Liberals, But The Nazis Were Progressive Leftists”

What were the communists they were competing with?


26 posted on 09/25/2022 11:27:22 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Stosh
One of the problems is trying to fit everything on a single line. One of the best examples was a two dimensional grid with social freedom on one axis and economic freedom on the other. Libertarians and true anarchists (not the brick throwing leftist thugs) had high scores for both. Communists claim high social and low economic scores, but in reality end up low for both. Fascism ends up similarly. Socialism is a little higher on the social freedom score, mainly because they aren't at the crushing all opponents phase yet.

Unsurprisingly, since it was out out by a libertarian group the quiz to find out where you were on the graph skewed people towards freedom on both axes.

27 posted on 09/25/2022 11:36:30 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (The government sees you as either livestock or pet. If things get bad they will eat their pets too.)
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To: joshua c

… but Hitler wasn’t a vegetarian because he loved animals, he was a vegetarian because he hated plants.


28 posted on 09/25/2022 12:03:36 PM PDT by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (“Salute the Marines.” - Joe )
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To: KarlInOhio

Good point. I’d argue one would need at least three axes, for a three-dimensional array, with ‘social order’ as the third axis - complete chaos at one extreme, and perfect regimentation at the other, again, with some happy medium somewhere.

Like it or not, human beings are social creatures - not hive critters like ants or bees, but still organisms that are interdependent, both at a social and economic level. Among the many mistakes commies and doctrinaire leftists make is a tunnel-vision view on social order, yet another route to totalitarianism.

The social commentator and religious writer Michael Novak pointed out in his Templeton Award address many years ago that among the most important advances in Western Civilization was the development of not just personal freedom and economic freedom, but also cultural freedom - and as the first two start to deteriorate, it’s hardly surprising that we see a rise in “cancel culture” and related crap.


29 posted on 09/25/2022 12:08:26 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: rktman

Yep; today’s democrats are Nazis.

No question. They are in your face Nazis. If they are still in the democrat party they are a Nazi.


30 posted on 09/25/2022 12:36:58 PM PDT by Boomer ( What's the difference between Nazi Germany in 1932 and the USA in 2022? 5k miles and 90 years.)
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To: Bonemaker
What were the communists they were competing with?

Bolsheviks. Basically cut from the same cloth.

31 posted on 09/25/2022 12:39:03 PM PDT by Boomer ( What's the difference between Nazi Germany in 1932 and the USA in 2022? 5k miles and 90 years.)
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