Part I, in ten points. [Read]
I need point 4 explained in more detail, because I'm not sure what the difference is. If the point is that collectivist fascists have hijacked the term to disparage those who believe in individual liberty, I'd like to see it fleshed out more.
I know "progressives" would have us believe Nazis had no ties with national socialists, but that's all part of their sleight of mind routine, because that's what they are.
The jackbooted authoritarian says you and what is yours are theirs. I don't care if they wear a red star or an armband. They're all my "mortal enemy."
I'll forward this to "Concerned American" so he can clear up any misunderstanding on my part about what he's saying. And I'll look forward to Part II.
UPDATE: Point 4 clarified.
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
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"I need point 4 explained in more detail, because I'm not sure what the difference is."
In my opinion CA is ranking the threats. Communism in China and the USSR killed many more than Fascism with the Nazis did. Communism has more collectivism and less individual property rights than Fascism does. I observe that Communism is more deadly than Fascism; I conclude that weakening individual property rights is deadly.
Socialism is incremental Communism, which takes the path through Fascism before it reaches Communism. Fascism was called mercantilism 230 years ago and is now called the whatever-industrial complex.
Nazi is an abbreviation for National Socialist, which is an abbreviation for National Socialist German Worker's Party. These names are translated from German. Nazis called each other comrade. The difference between Fascism and Communism exists, but both are in genocide territory.
The growth of government seems to follow an exponential trend, where the percentage of the economy which is government doubles every fixed number of years. The tea partiers believe we now "suddenly" have a lot of government. No, that's just how exponential growth works, it turns the "corner" and suddenly seems big. All modern presidents, parties, and legislatures have followed the same agenda for bigger government.
In America today, the Republicans emphasize nationalism (trade protectionism where America can and must produce anything Americans need, racial superiority of "Ammuricans" over Mexicans and Middle Easterners, anti-immigration, an absurdly strong military, the idea that America has a uniquely superior moral position in the world), and the Democrats emphasize socialism. Together they make up all components of national socialism. The Republicans and Democrats are two wings of the same bird of prey.
The American constitution, in its smallest original form, is Socialism. American conservatives won't face that fact. Many conservatives like Socialism because they get to aggress other people over abortion, marriage, drugs, immigration, world manufacturing trade, oil, etc.
Here is an objective way to judge where a country is relative to the big genocides of the 20th century: What percentage of the population is in prison (ghetto, gulag), why are they in prison (because they're rapists, or because they're Jews or blacks?), and what percentage of prisoners survive prison to return to a normal life?
For me all government is the same. Yes, some are less evil than others, but in the end the U.S., or any other "free" country, has the seed of despotism. This is because most everyone agrees the government is above the moral law in various ways. And this, ultimately is where the right to arms comes in. You have a right to defend yourself, and no individual can morally tie you up so that you can be beaten up or robbed. If an individual cannot rob you, the government cannot rob and call it taxation. If it's evil for you, it's evil for the state. But give a mouse a cookie... and here we are.
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