2024 US Presidential Election

[the-pi-guy]

Chrkeller said:

The party has been hijacked, millions of us are aware and bothered by it.  Thus it isn't correct to group us.  The Nazi party were socialists.  that doesn't mean socialists are Nazis.  

Nazis were not socialists.

North Korea is called the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Do you believe North Korea to be a genuine democracy? 

Some of the first people that the Nazis went after were political opponents, such as socialists and communists.  

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller

I think a major contributor to this idea, is that a lot of Americans think that left wing means big government and right wing means small government. The definition has more to do with hierarchy. Left wing is more about some idea of equality. Whereas right wing is about some people having more power than others.