Face it. It is over. Trump won.

[Normchacho]

Mr Puggsly said:

Normchacho said:

1. The Nazis were a fascist party, and the party is largely considered far right-wing because it's basis in right-wing ideologies such as Nationalism, acceptance or even support of social inequality, a strong belief in traditional or "natural" morals (read: traditional values), a focus on stability and order, ect.

Now, of course not all people who identify as right-wing will hold all of these beliefs, and the Nazi party to many right-wing ideas to the extreme (hence, FAR right-wing). But they did hold many right-wing ideals.

2. Totalitarianism isn't inherentley right or left wing.

3. Democrats aren't inherentley liberal or left-wing (since the party has actually changed from right to left wing during it's history).

4. Your last bit doesn't make sense. You framed it as a comparison, but the first part states that far right-wing policies don't define republicans, and the second part simply points out that communism is a far left-wing political ideology.

They aren't two sides of the same coin. Heck, they aren't even the same currency.

Bottomline, the worst things about the Nazi part weren't the socialism, the nationalism, morals, etc. It was the genocide, racial stuff, world domination, etc. Which is neither left or right.

Pemalite essentially said extreme right wing policies lead to the Nazi party. Perhaps that was a stretch.

But the Nazis right-wing ideals were the catalyst of their worst actions.

Germany started invading countries at first in an attempt to reuinite all of the "German peoples" which was due to their belief in Pan-nationalism.

The genocide of "undesirables" and all of the "racial stuff" largely came from ethnic-nationalism and the belief that there was a "superior race".

 

The defining characteristics that we all think about when someone mentions the Nazi party are their far right-wing beliefs, and though I think the current US political climate is nowhere near what it was in 1930's Germany...let me put it this way.

Right-wing, American politics today is standing on the same road as the Nazi party. Just as Left-wing politics stands on the same road as the CPSU. What matters is how far down the road we're willing to travel.