If you’re wondering what Doby has to do with anything, look at this face:
Oh, sorry, wrong one. I meant this:
Oh no, sorry. I am really confusing my totalitarian right-wingers today. I meant this:
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guyinla
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Not sure what you mean by totalitarian right wingers. By definition, totalitarianism is left of center, not right. All of Newt's big-government ideas are leftist policies, and that's why he gets hammered for them by the GOP.
No, because in the general usage, Hitler was "ultra-right". I have discussed different usages of "right" and "left" and where I stand in relationship to them: http://crawlingaxe.blogspot.com/2008/11/changing-political-views-why.html (some of my views may have changed by now; I am linking to that post for the purpose of illustrating the Nolan chart).
So, totalitarianism is actually "below" center, but as both Liberals and Conservatives go lower, they meet -- imagine the "political circle" diagram inverted (so, on the Nolan chart, Hitler and Stalin are next to each other; one a little to the right and the other a little to the left).
Sure, hitler is generally referred to as on the right; I think that's historical revisionism. Firstly, his political philosophy changed over time, but even when he was very pro private property, he was still for a government-managed economy. I don't believe he was ever right wing.I think in general the left calls him right wing because, according to the left, racism is a characteristic of the right wing.
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Not sure what you mean by totalitarian right wingers. By definition, totalitarianism is left of center, not right. All of Newt's big-government ideas are leftist policies, and that's why he gets hammered for them by the GOP.
No, because in the general usage, Hitler was "ultra-right". I have discussed different usages of "right" and "left" and where I stand in relationship to them: http://crawlingaxe.blogspot.com/2008/11/changing-political-views-why.html (some of my views may have changed by now; I am linking to that post for the purpose of illustrating the Nolan chart).
So, totalitarianism is actually "below" center, but as both Liberals and Conservatives go lower, they meet -- imagine the "political circle" diagram inverted (so, on the Nolan chart, Hitler and Stalin are next to each other; one a little to the right and the other a little to the left).
Sure, hitler is generally referred to as on the right; I think that's historical revisionism. Firstly, his political philosophy changed over time, but even when he was very pro private property, he was still for a government-managed economy. I don't believe he was ever right wing.I think in general the left calls him right wing because, according to the left, racism is a characteristic of the right wing.
So, what is right-wing then?
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