On Nov 28, 10:30*am, "D. Peter Maus" wrote:
On 11/27/10 23:15 , Nickname unavailable wrote:

On Nov 27, 3:44 pm, "Chas. *wrote:

* the fascists are righties, and everyone knows it, but low
functioning, low information conservatives/libertarians/fascists.

The aristocrats and gentlemen of the Right who made up the majority of
Hitler's cabinet hated the concept of democracy even more than the
Nazis did, All over Germany, thugs in brown shirts took possession of
the streets and roughed up Communists, socialists, and Jews; they
chased socialist mayors and officials out of government buildings

* *The hunger for power, and the taste for abuse, does not define
and is not defined by a left/right paradigm. Similarly, the hunger
for power need not be rooted in anything more than a vision of how
things may/should/could/need to be.

* *Anyone, from any point on the political contiuum, may be driven
to acquire power. And not all are pathological. Some may genuinely
believe such drive is of the purest altruistic motives. How many
wars, purges, and acts of genocide were initiated in the name of peace?

* *Such a person will, by default, hate democracy, and any number of
groups, ethnicities, and/or political intents that become
politically inconvenient. Or useful. How many times have we heard in
the last half century, 'never let a crisis go to waste.'

* *All that is required for the abuse of power, is a belief that the
ends justify the means. And that belief is not limited to either the
left, or the right. Anyone may have it, develop it, or evolve to it.

* *In other words...

* *One not need be on the right to hunger for and enjoy the abuse of
power.

that is pretty much correct, except, the right has a much longer
history of offenses against humanity than the extreme left. the
extreme left is a human auto response to out of control capitalism,
which lasted for 200 years. the out of control capitalism was defeated
in 1945, but its on the rise again. both extremes are bad though.
i see little difference between a free market economy(fascism), or a
communist economy(marxism), in either system, almost all wealth and
power end up in the hands of a few.