[Pharmboy]

With all due respect (and anyone named "The Shootist" deserves respect from even other armed persons ;-)) I disagree. The idea of the state setting policy and having control of the culture is an idea of the left and not the right (true conservatives want to be left alone and not told what to do by anyone or anything, incluing the state; and, they don't care about telling others what to do).

In my mind, the central issue of Bolshevik leftism was class; the central issue of Hitlerian leftism was race.

Totalitarians suck, and totalitarianism is of the left, not right, IMO.

[DrDavid]

The central issue for the Taleban is religion!

[sayfer bullets]

Totalitarians suck, and totalitarianism is of the left, not right, IMO.

Correct, half correct, and incorrect. IMO. totalitarianism need not be either, or it may be both. My read is that the totalitarian craves power above all things, and will lean (or lurch) in either social direction to maintain and/or increase power. Therefore, in my very humble opinion totalitarians are inherently

CENTRISTS