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Idiots and Facism
Col Mike walker, USMC (retired)
All,
OK, so here is another rant but it is short. New Rule: Politeness has failed.
No longer will I courteously explain that communism and nationalist socialism/fascism are NOT polar opposites of the political spectrum.
From now on, my response to the espousers of this dribble is: “Only an idiot would hold such a position.”
By idiot I mean an espouser who is ignorant (willfully or otherwise) or both stupid and ignorant (I have yet to meet an informed fellow who mouths this rattrap of an idea out of pure stupidity).
Let us get this straight: If we were to make a Venn diagram (apologies to the ignorant) based on the set of characteristics of communism and nationalist socialism/fascism, the overlapping region would surely exceed 50%. The two philosophies are closely related – which is why they fought each other so desperately.
The real polar opposites are radical socialism (the "terrible two" above) and libertarianism.
If that belief system is added to the mix then it is unlikely that it would have much of any common area with radical socialism.
Citing libertarianism has the advantage of providing clarity, accuracy and most of all HONESTY to the discussion.
The solution is ideal. Having been a hater of both forms of radical socialism, I never fit into the idiot’s model. But correctly add in libertarianism and I do.
Believing in free markets and limited government, I would land somewhere on the side of the mean tending towards libertarianism.
How wonderful!
We finally have a truthful model and the idiots be damned.
Semper Fi,
Mike
