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Baron_Mind

"abdominally dumb" whimpered:

Baron_Mind was laughing at the intentional ignorance of:

"rf_not" writhed in sociopathic denials because:

Baron_Mind was pointing out the obvious, as it escaped laughing at:

"no brainer" whimpered:

Baron_Mind was having a laugh, at the expense of:

"night light, underpants" regurgitated the usual right-wing ignorance:

Everyone knows that liberals are crypto-fascists.

That would be a logical fallacy..

--Fascism has always been a right-wing ideology, per history..

LOL!!! Ah yes, another brainwash

So, you cited a web-log to support your foolishness?

How quaint.. Now, for the historic facts..

http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_...3/Fascism.html

Compared to Other Radical Right-Wing Ideologies

"Although fascism comes in many forms, not all radical
right-wing movements are fascist. In France in the 1890s,
for example, the Action Française movement started a
campaign to overthrow the democratic government of France
and restore the king to power. Although this movement
embraced the violence and the antidemocratic tendencies
of fascism, it did not develop the fascist myth of
revolutionary rebirth through popular power. There
have also been many movements that were simply nationalist
but with a right-wing political slant. In China, for example,
the Kuomintang (The Chinese National People’s Party), led
by Chiang Kai-shek, fought leftist revolutionaries until
Communists won control of China in 1949. Throughout the
20th century this type of right-wing nationalism was
common in many military dictatorships in Latin America,
Africa, and Asia. Fascism should also be distinguished
from right-wing separatist movements that set out to
create a new nation-state rather than to regenerate an
existing one. This would exclude cases such as the Nazi puppet
regime in Croatia during World War II. This regime, known as
the Ustaše government, relied on paramilitary groups to govern,
and hoped that their support for Nazism would enable Croatia
to break away from Yugoslavia. This separatist goal
distinguishes the Ustaše from genuine fascist movements."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

Position in the political spectrum

"Fascism is normally described as "extreme right",
but writers on the subject have often found placing
fascism on a conventional left-right political spectrum
difficult. There is a scholarly consensus that fascism
was influenced by both the left and the right. A number
of historians have regarded fascism either as a revolutionary
centrist doctrine, as a doctrine which mixes philosophies
of the left and the right, or as both of those things.

The historians Eugen Weber, David Renton, and Robert Soucy
view fascism as on the ideological right. Rod Stackelberg
argues that fascism opposes egalitarianism (particularly racial)
and democracy, which according to him are characteristics that
make it an extreme right-wing movement. Stanley Payne states
that pre-war fascism found a coherent identity through
alliances with right-wing movements. Roger Griffin argues
that since the end of World War II, fascist movements have
become intertwined with the radical right, describing certain
groups as part of a "fascist radical right".

Walter Laqueur says that historical fascism "did not belong
to the extreme Left, yet defining it as part of the extreme
Right is not very illuminating either", but that it "was
always a coalition between radical, populist ('fascist')
elements and others gravitating toward the extreme Right".
Payne says "fascists were unique in their hostility to all
the main established currents, left right and center",
noting that they allied with both left and right, but more
often the right. However, he contends that German Nazism
was closer to Russian communism than to any other non-communist
system."

Recovering Liberals

Speaking of elitism, when are you going to quit pretending
that your failed political ideology is above questioning?

Oh - enlighten us

Enlighten yourself, if that's your path, neophyte..

--Yours is no disgrace..