The Island of Logic

I have decided to write this since I am getting tired of the incorrect definition that is being given by the media and academia to right wing Conservative politics. The common misconception that I keep hearing and reading is that Fascists and Nazis are extreme right wing Conservatives. I have seen this on the History Channel, read it in news stories, and seen it in text books. What pin-headed, whacko liberal was able to get this as an accepted definition of extreme right wing politics, and who are the majestic mountains of colossal ignorance that keep repeating it. Below I have created a political scale.

(Take special note that Republicans are not very close to the Conservative portion of the graph, this has sadly become the state in the last ten years.)

I contend that extreme right wing politics or extreme Conservative politics is Anarchy instead of Fascism or Naziism. The reason it is Anarchy is because the base definition of Conservatism is limited or less government and Anarchy is the absence of any form of authority or government. Anarchy would then be extreme Conservatism. Extreme Liberalism on the other hand is Communism or Socialism. The primary tenant of Liberalism is that more government is the answer to our problems. (Poverty: the New Deal. Retirement: Social Security. Education: Government run public schools. Health Care: Hillary Care. Gas Prices: more restrictions on oil companies, or in the words of the lovely and gracious Maxene Water’s “… this liberal will be all about socializing..basically..TAKING OVER and the government running all of your companies…” (watch below). etc. etc….)

Now what poor Maxene was trying to say here was Nationalize instead Socialize, but in her faux pas she actually stated the truth. Nationalizing the oil industry would be Socialism. This would be akin to what our good old buddy Hugo Chávez of Venezuela did. This is funny and we laugh at her stupidity now, but when too many stupid people like her get into power suddenly their stupidity is no longer funny.

Communism and Socialism are about extreme government control; the government being in control of every aspect of people’s lives, restricting freedoms and transferring wealth, trying to put everyone on a equal playing field. Conservatism on the other hand believes in getting out of peoples lives. It believes that when people are given freedom and the ability to be all they can be without the government coming down on them, they will excel. Nazism and Fascism are left wing forms of government, because they are types of extreme government control. I find it very interesting that Benito Mussolini, one of the primary names associated with Fascism was a Socialist before becoming a Fascist. I doubt his political views changed that much, but yet the form of government that he championed is considered to be “extreme right wing”!? You may say that this is a simplistic way of viewing the political spectrum, and that it is much more complicated than this. Well I agree with Einstein “Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.” I believe that the basic tenants of the political views are simple and one of the primary measuring sticks that can be used is the level of government control. There are however aspects of political views that transcend this measuring stick. For example, a strong military is the policy of most Communist governments and also a value of the American Conservative movement. A strong military however is more or less apposed by the American Left. Fascist and Nazis supported Militarism which is an extreme view of a strong military. So there are views that are accepted all across the government control spectrum that do not necessarily apply to the level of government control. The right to life or antiabortionism would also fall out of the category of government control and is more of a social or religious view. There are some views like the right to life which are part of a particular country’s form of Conservatism, like American Conservatism. Another country’s Conservative movement may not have the tenant of the right to life or a strong military. Don’t be confused, these are simply aspects of the American form of Conservatism, and not part of the simple definition of political Conservatism. The reason the political spectrum should be measured by the level of government control is because more political policies can be measure with this stick then with any other. The American Constitution is a politically Conservative document because its primary role is to restrict the powers of the Federal government. The founding fathers were so interested in restricting the control of the government that their first form of the Federal government was under the Articles of Confederation which made the Federal government so weak that the thirteen colonies almost fell into Anarchy. The founding fathers in the Bill of Rights made a list of rights that shall not be infringed upon by the Federal government. This is a politically Conservative view that is being continually attacked by the American Left. Liberals believe that certain types of speech should be restricted, hence the age of Political Correctness. That citizens do not have the right to bear arms, even when the Second Amendment in the afore mentioned Bill of Rights explicitly gives that right to its citizens. American Liberals are then left wing and believe in more government restrictions and control and the American Conservatives are right wing and believe in less government control hence these political views land where they are on the political spectrum graph. This view point will probably never be taught in any Political Science class, but that is because this explanation is far to simple for that meathead of a professor to wrap his pee sized brain around. Besides you don’t need a PHD to understand it.

Tags: Conservative, Constitution, Fascists, Left, Nazi, Right

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