[clue-talk] Wow, Card's a little political...

[Jed S. Baer]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:52:40 -0600
Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> Is that still alive and kicking in reich-wing circles?

Wow. Nazis, eh? You do realize that "Nazi" is a contraction of "National
Socialist" in the German, i.e. "Nationalsozialismus"? The portrayal of
the right-wing as being equivalent to Nazis is a wonderful propoganda
victory by the leftists, who don't want to people to examine the actual
facts of the matter. However, there's a very short version here, if
you're interested: (well, not the best I can come up with, but on short
notice, it's okay)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1030/p09s01-coop.html

Not that I'm defending the Republican party, as I have many bones to pick
with them, but to compare even the worst of prominent Republicans to
Hitler, et. al., displays a shocking lack of understanding, at best. And
no, I don't compare even the worst of the Democrats to the Nazis. But I
do recognize socialist tendencies when I see them, and label them as such.

You might benefit from reading Jonah Golberg's excellent book, "Liberal
Fascism". Hell, broke as I am, I'll buy you a copy, if you promise to
read it in its entirety.

> School variety, so we'll probably see more of the same old, same old
> disaster capitalism neoliberal stuff we've had for the past 20+ years...

"Disaster capitalism"? Please, point to any example where the sincere
pursuit of socialism has resulted in prosperity for "the masses". See
again the CSM article I linked above. Actually, I don't even know if
that's a good reply, since I can't imagine what you're referring to by
such terminology.

jed