Kramer brings up a common reference to today's debate....that of good vs evil. The left is chalk full of folks claiming their battles are largely their "good" vs those "evil" nazifascist conservatives
You'll have to pardon my generalities here and impending verbosity, but being I'm about to go into references that our leftist friends frequently employ when "reading between the lines", while conservatives are apparently too dumb to understand, that of
nuanceMOST conservatives see issues as right vs wrong, which is what often confuses our leftest friends, because in most cases when assessing a situation as right vs wrong, there is little nuance involved. Same applies to good vs evil, which is what leftests will frequently employ, again minus much of this prescious nuance they say they have such a firm grasp of.
Yes, when one is not as ideologically pure as folks like Tee, like Xo, then
obviously you are a nazi, you are a fascist, you are dumb. No nuance, no possiblilty that there's simply varying levels of disagreement, most of which can be rationally explained, no you're a frickin Hitler-lover, crying for the days concentration camps and mob lynchings.
But let's venture into this area referred to as nuance. Now, outside of some folks on the far far right who have no problem referring to Obama as Stalin, can we NOT seriously look at the issues and definitions of fascism and communism?? When one really looks at the 2, IMHO there is very little that seperates such egregious governmental policy. Both require severely oppressive governments, both stifle personal freedoms, both significantly attempt to control their media & educational institutions, in order to provide the proper amount of "education" to its masses. And most notably, both have no problem liquidating those that do not wish to conform
Now, we have our resident Stalin supporters and communist supporters, who frequently attempt to persuade us that communism hasn't worked, because we simply haven't had a pure version of it yet. And when we do....whalaaa, utopia. Or so we're told. And there in lies the issue, we being told what to do, how we're to do it, how long we can do it, what we won't be allowed to do, go, buy, etc. No, that's left to those who simply know better than the rest of us. In other words, freedom is not a priority in a Communist government. Not even sure it makes the top 10. Conformity and loyalty are 1&2.
In Fascism, IIRC, instead of the Government owning everything, the Government largely runs everything. Government dictates how everyone is to act, how businesses are to function, how much profit you can take in, if any. There's a private sector, but it is largely a pawn of the Government. Now, we're being told by our leftists that Conservatives look forward to such. We're told that Bush and the GOP were pushing towards such an endeavor. I'd love to see some examples of that, since all I seem to recall is simply a lot of meritless
nazi namecalling. Like when you call someone a racist if they dare criticize AA or legal immigration. Basically an intellectually lazy effort to shut someone up
Now, let's look at the current nuances of this Administration & congress. I'm not calling Obama a 2nd coming of Stalin, or even Hitler (Both of them being far smarter than our current "chosen")
But I digress, this administration has put more Czars and more Government control over more large private institutions, than any other modern day President (perhaps Ami can correct me on that) And all this overt Government take over is defended by the Obama cool-aide drinkers. Hmmmm, yet the left wants to call Conservatives and the prior administration fascists??
Thank you for your time and consderation in this matter
