It's very interesting, I think a lot of it comes down to the American view that a strong centralized authority is inherently left wing. Which you do see in communism and also leftist in the US regularly pushing for a stronger federal government. Where as the right usually pushes for more autonomy at the state level.
Slow news day, it happens.
I'll make a comparison where there was overlap in historical Communist/Fascist countries from the POV of your average American voter:
It feels that way because you're American.
"You only have to depose 1 guy" is, as history shows, a lot harder than it sounds. Theocratic monarchy just doesn't fit in todays age, there's too much information out there for one religion to take over sharia style.
US markets were up ~1.5%; the S&P500 is on its longest win streak in 20 years. We could all channel John Badman and invent reasons why this is evidence Trump's presidency is a disaster.
Democracy is no longer a tool in Germany. It is a institution. A cathedral. Only the clean and worthy are allowed in. The exact opposite of what Democracy was supposed to afford. A voice for its citizens. Not just for the few. Glad Rubio yelled at them.
>the implication of this statement being Karl Marx and the French Jacobins he looked up to were right wing
Or, fascism is left wing.Which is much more elegant
hard, but not impossible. has there ever been a republic that didn't become corrupt and then have to completely fucking die (usually by a strongman's hand) to fix it?
maybe, maybe not. i would argue that "woke materialistic individualism" operates very much like a religion and liberal democracy is just the political system that it created.
I like HHH he's fun
Final statement: fascism is when the state exerts absolute control over everything. Communists were fucking good at it.
As I said, Fascists and Communists don't like each other period point blank. What contributing factors do you think were involved in the Russian front in WW2 or the Spanish Civil War?
Statism is inherently Leftist, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Nazism, etc, etc, are all Statist, they are all left of center, but Fascism and Nazism are to the Right of communists and socialists. Franco was actual right wing. Technically, the US is left of center as well, but only a bit. It's why we keep drifting Left, we're not explicitly right wing.
Truth is, democracy was elitist from the start.
They were dead fucking silent about Tuskeegee in 2020 too.
