What is up with the conservative need to deflect from the fact that they have dangerous far right extremists who have carried out multiple terrorist attacks in the US in their midst?
By making up what could be described as fake arguments which in their minds prove that nazis are not trump voters or linked with the republican party but are in fact linked directly with crooked hillary and the democrats.
Because NSDAP has the word socialist in it.
I have seen this same argument used on multiple sites and when people point out to them how wrong they are. Which can be done by simply googling nazi party and then reading the wikipedia article they just keep going. Is this because it is easier for them to create their own version of reality?
Here is a link to that article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
I am not an american so if someone could explain to me this need for conservatives to delude themselves. That would be great.
Sincerely yours,
Urvile.
At the time of Hitler's political activity, in the 1930s, socialism was sexy. Recognising this he cynically incorporated the word into the name of his party, hence the term National Socialism, which in turn gave rise to acronym, Nazi. In addition to this he took the red flag of socialism and stuck a swastika in the middle of it.
Stalin (the grotty bastard) perverted Marxism by turning it into a religion: replacing the imagery of the Russian Orthodox Church, with statues and icons of Marx, Engels and Lenin (deifying the latter). This, in his sick little mind, made any opposition to his interpretation of Marxism/Leninism, blasphemy. Remember, Stalin did spend four years studying to be a priest.
So, we have the two most revolting and prominent shits of the 20th century associated with the term Socialism, but in practice exhibited extreme right-wing tendencies, in my view.
I believe Socialism is a political philosophy that promotes economic and political equality through the fair distribution of wealth: 'to each, according to need, from each according to ability'. To some degree, or other, I think most people concur with this view, even the opponents of socialism.
The problem with the political left is that, although it has been universally uncompromising in its condemnation of Nazi Germany, many factions have either supported, or been apologists for, Stalinist Russia. Stalinism is now enjoying a renaissance in Russia, under Putin, and yet it is the far-right who are among his most fervent followers. This is cruel irony, given the tens of millions of Soviet citizens who died in World War 2.
I may have wondered off the point somewhat with relaying all this, but it may explain why conservatives try to associate anybody to their left with Stalinism and, to some degree, National Socialism, albeit disingenuously.
The fact is the political right are liars. They are not defending an ideology, they are defending a system that places the real power in the hands of a tiny, rich elite. They tolerate democracy because it gives the illusion of empowerment to the masses: if it ever threatened any real change they would move heaven and earth to subvert or abolish it. They would wreck an economy to bring the masses to their knees (he said remembering Thatcher). I could expand on this more, but I think I have made my point.