Extreme Right Goes Woke: How Some “Conservatives” Now Trash Freedom & Praise Karl Marx [More]
“Conservative,” of course, is a relative term defined by time and space. That’s why the “left” is so successful at perfecting the language, something Stossel is doing here by equating his examples with “the right.”
No Constitutionalist advocates collectivist subversion.
And as much as latter-day Bolsheviks like to throw out “Nazi” and “fascist”accusations, both Hitler and Mussolini were socialists at heart.
Be careful with this guy. He says all the right words about RKBA, but when it comes to “immigration,” he’s a Groverian “libertarian” who, for all his “smartness,” is being a blind useful idiot for this.
Being “right” is never extreme. That’s what insisting on being wrong is.
Right and Left are also relative terms whose meanings have been distorted by time, space, and misuse by people who should know better.
Originally, the party in power sat to the right of the presiding officer and the party in opposition sat to the left.
Don’t even get me started on what it means for a group to be “decimated.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(punishment)
A lot of Stossel’s examples are simply of people who have decided that rationality no longer triumphs over stupidity. They have decided that arguing by rational rules, constitutional rules, is fighting with both hands tied behind their back, when the referee shows no inclination of ever restraining their opponents to honest combat. So they appeal for votes using the same stupid arguments and statistical fallacies that the left uses to successfully con stupid voters. They have decided that this has become an existential fight, and so… “any chair.”
One particular example I disliked in the video: when someone on the right refers to “the lie of ‘free trade,'” he is never saying that the virtues of free trade are false — he is saying that the regime that the uniparty characterizes as “free trade” (as in NAFTA) is nothing like actual free trade at all.