Free Hat: pretty much everything you charged of the Nazis you could also charge of the Communists. Try again.
However, without going too far into it let’s just go with a few things:
1. Nazi is an abbreviation (not really an acronym) for National Socialist German Workers Party. That’s what they called themselves. That’s what they sold themselves as. That’s what they were.
2. Fundamentally, the only major differences between themselves and other Socialist groups was that they had the insight that a worker has more in common with his boss than he does with a worker six countries away speaking a different language. The Nazis combined the ideological bent that came to Europe after the French Revolution and Napoleon and combined it with the nationalistic/racist fervor that had been growing throughout Europe since the mid-1800s.
3. Contrary to the simplistic notions given by Progressive school teachers and everyone in Barack Obama’s youth, Europeans very much saw themselves as different races of people right up until present times. They did not all join hands and call themselves “whitey.”
4. The worker part of #1 above is a tip-off. You might not be aware of this (actually, I’m fairly certain you aren’t) but the “right wing” parallel to Socialism isn’t the Free Market. If you think it is, you need a better education. A free market is… free. If collectivists like yourself or Barack Obama want – and have the integrity – to create your own kibbutzes, collectives and colonies, you are… drum roll… free to. You lack only the integrity or humility. None of us will stop you from doing it or from starving from it.
If Obama’s little minions want more Progressive health care, they are absolutely free to start their own pharma companies, hospitals and HMOs. I suspect that they’ll run into reality the same way Obama’s foreign policy does, but hey: knock yourself out. Again, all you lack is the will and integrity to do so.
The right wing parallel to Socialism is Mercantilism. Here’s an exercise: write down all the evil things you think are true about right-wing economics (corporatism, fascism, oppression of brown people), then go look up Mercantilism and its history. Then, when you’re all done, ask yourself this: if you and your ilk “Are the Change that you’ve been waiting for” what – other than our resources, our time and our wealth – were you waiting for, and why? Weren’t you free to?
