Democratic congresswoman shot in Arizona.

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HappySqurriel said:

Kasz216 said:

I wouldn't say that's completely true Happy.  Afterall the Rightwing groups are more likely to play up nationalism and start proactive wars.

Furthermore violation rights seemed to be a republican thing... though Obama and the senates refusal to get rid of Fiza or the Patriot act does bring the leftwing further up the pole.

It's why I say Facism is really more "in the middle".  It's a moderate's road to tyranny really.

I always liked them in Civ 2 because they were fun to play with their Fantatic units.  Though I never did get why they looked like the KKK of all people.

 

I don't deny that Fascism is a mix of extreme views from the political spectrum; and I (mostly) said that it was more related to left wing politics because (currently) the mix of social conservatism and libertarianism in most democracies means that conservatives mostly only agree on economic issues, and  the heavy influence and control of the economy by the state is more related to current liberal/progressive politics in most nations.

 

It's a cliche at this point, but a 1-dimensional political spectrum makes really little sense. As soon as you have at least two axis, say Nolan's economic freedom/individual freedom ones which is mirrored in the political compass, you can put much better tags on historical cases. And it still won't catch anything of the finer grain: objectivists despise libertarians and reject anarchism' bottom-up justice, but they're generally tagged as capitalist libertarians, or even more simply right-wing libertarian extremists by most (mis)informed europeans.