El_Gordo
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1 day ago @ Big Hollywood - The Politics of 'Star ... · 2 replies · +3 points
Numerous left-wing regimes have believed the same. Nothing "conservative" about it. Nazis believed in the total organisation and mobilization of society under the Party, including the military and everything else. That isn´t militarism, it is collectivism. Indistinguishable from the Soviet Union or Cuba.
As for expansion, nazis believed life to be a zero-sum game in which Peoples are in a constant fight for the distribution of limited resources. Modern pro-growth, free-market conservatives know this to be wrong, the left still bases its policies on this archaic view, with classes substituted for races.
"The Nazi’s also opposed homosexuality, as well as opposing other cultures. They insisted that German Aryan culture was superb, and all other cultures were inferior. Cultural relativism is a characteristic of left not the right."
The left is only relativist when it comes to traditional western, Christian, conservative values. The left is not relativist when it comes to their own values. The left invented political correctness, broke heads and defended ugly regimes around the world because they shared their values.
1 day ago @ Big Hollywood - The Politics of 'Star ... · 0 replies · +3 points
It was a progressive idea of the time that mere democracy had failed (we see its echo today when liberals from Friedman to Obama want us to be more like China).
And egalitarianism was one of the big selling points of Hitler. The antisemitism appealed because it had an egalitarian aspect. After all, everyone knew that good, honest Germans could not compete with those cunning Jews. Jews were synonymous with unbound capitalism. Some still believe it, which is why the liberal Occupy movement attracts antisemites.
1 day ago @ Big Hollywood - The Politics of 'Star ... · 1 reply · +3 points
The nazis were romantic revolutionaries who wanted to destroy the traditional German society and they mostly did. Their writings and speeches stressed the need to overthrown and construct something new, which is inherently un-conservative. They ridculed traditional values and morality.
So what if they idealized rural life? So did Pol Pot. Like Pol Pot, Goebbels actually used phrases like "new time" and "new man". They were collectivists and in the context of their time quite progressive, which is why propgressives often liked them.
1 day ago @ Big Hollywood - The Politics of 'Star ... · 2 replies · +3 points
No, that was just one attribute of the German variant of fascism called nazism. What ties nazism to other forms of fascism is the primacy of the collective, which expresses its general will through the state. The individual is dissolved in the group, whether it is race or class based is a mere detail. For the nazis it was both.
The achieve this, the fascist needs to build a new society, even a "new man", which requires him to first destroy the given society, its traditions and values. In the US, this is a declared goal of the left. Obama calls it "fundamental change".
It is clear why this is anathema to all people who defend the founding principles and traditions of the USA, and who are commonly known as "conservatives". By contrast, fascism is revolutionary and inherently anti-conservative.
1 day ago @ Big Hollywood - Why Won't Hollywood Co... · 0 replies · +2 points
Only in the movie. Unlike Chambers, Garrison was nuts.
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1 day ago @ Big Hollywood - Samuel L. Jackson: 'I ... · 0 replies · +4 points
If you talk to him about deficits and unemployment, the big numbers will just make him dizzy. He´s in the bubble made especially for millionaire liberals.
1 day ago @ Big Hollywood - Samuel L. Jackson: 'I ... · 0 replies · +3 points
I always pay for music but if a band is open about being communists then I make a point of stealing it. If I want to listen to it at all.
1 day ago @ Big Hollywood - Samuel L. Jackson: 'I ... · 0 replies · +3 points
There is no white elected Democrat who didn´t get a majority of the black vote.
On the other hand, it seems black Republicans can only win in white majority districts.
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