Right from Left

Adolph Hitler, leader of the National Socialist Party,¹ was an unabashed Leftist. He regarded himself as even more of a Marxist than the ones in Russia — because of his willingness to do by force what the Bolsheviks would leave to evolution. Benito Mussolini, founder of the National Fascist Party in Italy, and thereby inventor of fascism, was with the Italian Socialist Party until they threw him out — because he wanted Italy to fight in World War I. He and Italy were Hitler's main allies during World War II.

National SOCIALISM, "right wing" of Leftism

"Right wing" of the Left

The Left consigned what they regarded as the unattractive traits associated with their world Socialist movement — authoritarianism, nationalism, militarism, attendant racism — to their own "right wing". Those who were cast to the right were the "conservatives", the ones who wanted to hold on to the old ways, who thought of nation first.⁴

Socialism leading to Communism was meant to be a global transformation, making nations, borders, and wars unnecessary. 

As one who combined nationalism with Socialism, together with hyper-militarism, Hitler and his party were cast in the "right wing" of the Left.² The greater the belief in absolute state power over every aspect of human life, the farther to the right one is consigned.

Left conflates "Right" with "Conservative"

As the Left pushes unattractive attributes of Leftism to its "right wing", and these traits are defined as "conservative", a conflation has occurred between the "right wing" of Socialism — all about absolute, brutal governmental power, eradication of religion and faith, and elimination of human rights — with American Conservatism — about minimal governmental intervention, guidance from above, and individual rights.

Ultimately, the "right wing" horrors of Nazism — the extreme "right wing" of Socialism and the Left — got projected onto Conservatives — whose beliefs are exactly the opposite, and whose values actually the greatest threat to Leftism. It was American conservative values, in fact, came to the rescue when Leftism reached its logical conclusion of complete destruction of people, society, and (almost) the world.

Assigning the most unappealing traits generated by Leftism to the principles that most threaten its exists seems an excellent way of killing two birds with one stone.

American Conservatism is in nobody's "right wing"

American Conservatism is the central core of political and social values — the ones being attacked by progressivism and radicalism. American Conservatism arises from common sense, a natural understanding, natural law, and a regular moral code. It is the social-political view that naturally develops if you grow up on a farm, go to church on Sundays, raise a family, and start a business — or simply work all of your life.

American Conservatism is at the center of the political spectrum where the Left represents maximum governmental control and the right is Libertarian — or the least governmental control. American Conservatism is in nobody's "right wing".

"We're not of the Right. We're not of the Left or the Right, we're Constitutionalists. That's their lingo."

Mark Levin (May 8, 2020)

American Conservatives misunderstand

If the Left classifies American Conservatives as being on the Right, and that has terrible associations historically, why accept the classification?

Maybe American Conservatives simply don't know what Conservatism is fundamentally, and are not familiar with the historical roots of the left-right paradigm. They don't know right from left, in other words. In this way their continuation of this false dichotomy arises from their own ignorance.

Perhaps American Conservatives have not considered, an have no accounting of, the enormous damage this misunderstanding does in terms of confusion, assignment of foul Leftist outcomes to themselves, and political and propaganda value.

American Conservatism saved world from Left's "right wing"

American Conservatism was developed over here and in direct opposition to what our forefathers experienced of European tyranny. It would later be the values of American Conservatism that would save Europe from the ravages of the Left's "right wing".

American Conservatism is something quite different from the Leftist traits the Left wishes to distant themselves from by projecting onto it. In fact, it's the opposite.

SEE: Conserving the Core, Right-Wing Socialists, Not Conservatives, Political Spectrum Redrawn, and Leftism vs. American Conservatism.

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1. "Nazi" is the German abbreviation, representing the pronunciation of Nati- in Nationalsozialist.
2. assignment of nationalist-militarist tendencies to the "right wing" of their movement by Leftists might derive naturally: the right arm is considered stronger. Maybe this rightward assignment got conflated with the right vs. left construction from pre-revolutionary France.³ 
3.  where the royalists sat to the right of the king in the legislative chamber, the Jacobins to the left.
4. see Stalin in Power: the Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 by Robert C. Tucker for more on this.

"Based On Nonsense"

"When someone says this is the warmest temperature on record. What are they talking about? It’s just nonsense. This is a very tiny change period."

"Demonization of CO2 is irrational at best and even modest warming is mostly beneficial."

MIT Climate Scientist Dr. Richard Lindzen

"Policies to slow CO2 emissions are really based on nonsense. We are being led down a false path. To call carbon dioxide a pollutant is really Orwellian. You are calling something a pollutant that we all produce. Where does that lead us eventually?"

Princeton Physicist Dr. Will Happer

"We are dealing with pure political propaganda that has nothing to do with science."

Greenpeace Co-Founder Dr. Patrick Moore

SEE: Prominent Scientists Declare Climate Claims Ahead of UN Summit ‘Irrational’

"Too Good to Check"

"The Rolling Stone story was simply too good to check. It perfectly advanced the narrative — featuring brutal, predatory rich kids (from a southern school, no less), indifferent administrators, and a devastated victim. And, like many of the “poster child” campus rape cases of the last two years, it was fundamentally false. If campus rape is such an epidemic, why are poster kids so hard to find?"

David French, National Review

"Awfully Difficult"

"It’s awfully difficult for the Carson campaign to have admitted to fabricating a story about being accepted to West Point when neither Carson nor the campaign has ever claimed that he was accepted to West Point."

Leon H. Wolf

"Not Serious"

"Rolling Stone Magazine admits its staff engaged in reckless behavior while covering this story, yet . . The reporter in question not only failed to apologize to members of Phi Kappa Psi, but doesn't even acknowledge the three witnesses she quoted in the article but never interviewed. This is a clear and sad indication that the magazine is not serious about its journalistic obligations."

Stephen Scipione, president

UVa Phi Kappa Psi chapter

"Too Good to Not Be True"

“It was too good to not be true, and that’s what’s going on in this case as well. You don’t want women to be gang-raped in a fraternity house, but you want to believe this terrible thing is happening and therefore you can expose it.”

Daniel Okrent

former public editor

New York Times

"Never Sort of Allowed for the Fact"

“We didn’t think through all the implications of the decisions that we made while reporting the story, and we never sort of allowed for the fact that maybe the story we were being told was not true.”

Will Dana, Rolling Stone

"Guns Behind Me"

“We had to have men with guns behind me one night because I was the only source of light downtown, was the lights that were illuminating the broadcast. We were told not to drink our bottled water in front of people because we could get killed for it.”

Brian Williams

"Wrongly Disbelieving"

"Ultimately, the costs of wrongly disbelieving a survivor far outweigh the costs of calling someone a rapist. Even if Jackie fabricated her account, U-Va. should have taken her word for it during the period while they endeavored to prove or disprove the accusation. This is not a legal argument about what standards we should use in the courts; it’s a moral one, about what happens outside the legal system.

The accused would have a rough period. He might be suspended from his job; friends might defriend him on Facebook. In the case of Bill Cosby, we might have to stop watching his shows, consuming his books or buying tickets to his traveling stand-up routine. But false accusations are exceedingly rare, and errors can be undone by an investigation that clears the accused, especially if it is done quickly."

Zerlina Maxwell, Washington Post

"Affected by the Story"

"We were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account. We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story."

Rolling Stone

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"The $6 Million Man"

"The incoming Republican Congress should give this man multiple opportunities to testify on Capitol Hill. In great detail, Jonathan Gruber should explain his views on the intelligence of his fellow Americans, the lies that he and Team Obama perpetrated to enact Obamacare, and how soon he will return to taxpayers his fraudulent $5,886,150 fortune."

Deroy Murdock, National Review

"His Name I.D. is 0.00001 Percent"

"Well, it’s hard to tell how much this will penetrate the larger consciousness outside of the beltway and New York. Jonathan Gruber, I’m guessing his name I.D. is 0.00001 percent among most Americans. But it does confirm all the worst suspicions that Republicans had, everything that they’ve been saying about Obamacare, that it was passed on a platform of lies, that Democrats were not transparent in passing this bill. His words, his own words, kind of confirm all of that, so they’ll point to that, and it’s just yet another hurdle in trying to get the numbers back above water for Obamacare."

Alex Seitz-Wald, MSNBC