RE: What's to the right of fascist?
September 17, 2010 at 3:25 am
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2010 at 3:39 am by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(September 15, 2010 at 1:15 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: The other night, I was listening to BBC radio and heard the "tea party" movement described as a "conservative movement", a polite description, considering just how right wing they are. At first, I thought how "fascist" was apparently too polite a term but then I thought that this isn't the right description.There really isn't much of a difference between minimum government and maximum government.
It's just a question of whether you want your rulers to be autocrats or government bureocrats.
(September 15, 2010 at 1:15 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Fascism is technically an autocratic government aligned with corporate interests where the masses are kept in line through fear. Certainly, there's no shortage of either fear or corporate astroturf in the Tea Party but calling them fascist still doesn't fit quite right.You're right.
I personally love how people hate the government and everything they do but they also love things like clean air, fair prices, decent healthcare, and fair wages and work laws.
I'd love to see a libertarian's heaven with an absolutely minimum government intervention. That hypothetical country would collapse into a third world country in moments. Instead of a government totalitarianism, you would just have an autocracy with the richest individuals ruling over those without.
The only thing worse for a civilization would be total anarchy, to which this is one peg above.
Oh, I also took that test that adrian posted on the first page.
Economic Left/Right: -2.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.97
I'm amused that I'm so apparently very close to chasm's spot on the spectrum.
I thought though that I would be closer to authoritarianism than I am, but apparently not.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan