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Well, actually the Nazis WERE Leftists!
After all, they were the "National SOCIALIST Party"!
I don't have my source to hand , but I have heard it said that Hitler was sometimes a vegitarian and dabbled in the occult, and eventually wanted to phase out christianity! Anyone out there back this up casually?
Sound familiar?
I think Hillary wuld have fit right in with that lot!
Something to ruminate on the next time we get called names! :-)

Tia

Then the Reichstag (government building) was blown up and Hitler ram-rodded an "Emergency Anti-Terrorist Act" through Parliament that gave the Gestapo extraordinary powers. The leader then declared that for the well-being of the German people, all private firearms were to be confiscated by the Gestapo and the Wermotten (federal law enforcement and military). German citizens who refused to surrender their guns when the "jack-boots" (Gestapo) came calling, were murdered in their homes. By the way, the Gestapo were the federal marshals' service of the Third Reich. The S.W.A.T. team was invented and perfected by the Gestapo to break into the homes of the enemies of the German people

This paragraph should be in Neon lights every time a politician talks about registring guns and gun control laws.

Click on the related link at the bottom of the article. Here's a tidbit, sound familiar ?

But what, in Heaven's name, does any of this have to do with "right-wing" theory? By "right wing," the media can mean one of these killer Nazi thugs, or they can mean someone who believes in private property, free enterprise, and bourgeois social norms. The blurring of the difference -- they are really polar opposites -- is wildly dishonest but obviously purposeful.

Of course, the media are free to define terms however they like, but the fact is that the ideological origins of Nazism are with the left. The term Nazi itself is short for the National Socialist German Workers Party. Nazism was fashioned as a totalitarian nationalist alternative to the totalitarian international socialism of the Lenin model. But national or international, the relevant word is socialist, which should be the first tip-off to Nazism's leftist origins.

It was no accident that the Nazi flag was a red banner; it was taken from the flag of socialism. As Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn showed in his book, "Leftism" (1974 and 1990), Hitler and all his top lieutenants were hard-core socialists who hated everything about the old Europe, including small states, the monarchs, the Church, the landed aristocracy, peace, and the free economy of the 19th century. They imagined themselves running a centralized, protectionist, and statist Germany under the executive-branch "leadership principle." They talked constantly of a proletarian revolution that would destroy the bourgeois class.

Furthermore, as Robert Proctor showed in "Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis" (1988), the Nazis were health fanatics who banned cigarette smoking, promoted vegetarianism and organic gardening, engaged in abortion and euthanasia, frowned on all capitalist excess, and even promoted animal rights. They were environmentalists who locked up land from development to promote paganism.

I don't have my source to hand , but I have heard it said that Hitler was sometimes a vegitarian and dabbled in the occult, and eventually wanted to phase out christianity!

Hitler was not only a vegetarian, but a strict nonsmoker as well. Even though the Nazi's discouraged smoking, their troops in the field were encouraged to take meth.

Hitler was a strict vegetarian, despised Christianity, was a believer in the occult (or what today would be called "New Age Religion"), and seemed to have a deep love for "nature" (his chosen home at Berchtesgaden is set atop a mountain surrounded by fabulous Alpine scenery). Except for the vegetarian part, Al Gore is practically Hitler's clone.

Come to think of it, maybe Al's weird accent is a left-over from his childhood in Brazil.