Nazi’s on both sides

Before the war, fascism was widely viewed as a progressive social movement with many liberal and left-wing adherents in Europe and the United States.

Jonah Goldberg

I think that only the Nazi’s were Nazi’s.  The term is used to address a specific class of Fascist, socialists in Germany leading up to WWII.  The term Nazi is a shortening of the German translation for National Socialists.  With a dose of eugenics for good measure.  How many times have we heard something about history repeating itself.  In the interim, both political perspectives use the term to describe the other. 

Mr. Greenfield’s post uses it again.  Except, I think he tends to be a bit more accurate in the application.  The difference is that the ‘liberal’ is generally not nationalistic.  The most ardent leftists just about hate their roots in America.  Let’s drop the whole Nazi comparison, and let Nazi’s be Nazi’s.  The rest of the sentiment is valid.  Don’t forget to click through and read the subtleties in the whole article.

If you want a quick lesson on the Nazi’s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

The major flaw in all of this is that fascism, properly understood, is not a phenomenon of the right at all. Instead, it is, and always has been, a phenomenon of the left. This fact — an inconvenient truth if there ever was one — is obscured in our time by the equally mistaken belief that fascism and communism are opposites. In reality, they are closely related, historical competitors for the same constituents.

Jonah Goldberg

If you overlook your involvement in the KKK, the Nazi Party, or the Republican Party, you are lying, you are deceitful.

Tom Lantos (D)

If you assume that there is as much of a substantive difference the elite and the common man as there is between a man and a monkey, there is nothing particularly inappropriate about such behavior. We herd animals. Liberals herd people. The human being is the livestock of the liberal animal farm.

The Nazis believed that they were the master race because they were genetically superior. Liberals believe that they are the master race on account of their superior empathy and intelligence. There's an obvious paradox in believing that you have the right to enslave and kill people because you care more, but that didn't stop millions of people from joining in with revolutions that led to a century of bloodshed in the name of movements that cared more.

The defining American code is freedom. The defining liberal code is compassion. Conservatives have attempted to counter that by defining freedom as compassionate, as George W. Bush did. Liberals counter by attempting to define compassion as liberating, the way that FDR did by classing freedoms with entitlements in his Four Freedoms.

On one side stands the individual with his rights and responsibilities. On the other side is the remorseless state machinery of supreme compassion. And there is no bridging this gap.

sultanknish.blogspot.com

Agenda 21 anyone?  Follow the money and you will find the essence of the evil, Money and Power.

You’re a bunch of dictators, that’s all you are. I had to fight you guys fifty years ago!

Sam Gibbons (D)