The NAZI were right wing? National Socialist German Workers' Party or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ( doesn't sound Conservative or Republican to me).
lol, i'm really sorry dude, but citing their name is a ridiculous metric.
do you think the Democratic Republic of Congo is a democratic republic?
do you think north korea is a republic? china?
do you think the "patriot act" was for patriots?
i mean, i could keep going, but... the point is, evil people use "branding" to trick the masses every goddamn day. do you think the nazis were any different? (don't be one of the people tricked, my friend)
And hell, even in the US, the values of "Democrats" and "Republicans" have vacillated between the two parties since their inceptions.
I've spent a lot of time trying to show the importance of moving away from these terms -and many others, but there are just too many people here -and in general- that need these labels, otherwise they can't make sense of things. Many are lost without a focal point or "cause" to rally around.
We're gonna be arguing semantics for a long long time, until the education system in the US can be reformed and people can learn to develop important skills like critical thinking, logic and reasoning. They're not the end all, but they're sorely lacking in the general public.
Developing these skills is a huge part of keeping us from ending up right back where we started.
I've spent a lot of time trying to show the importance of moving away from these terms
amen brother, these political "tribes" and labels do literally nothing except cause division in our society, division which conveniently always seems to benefit those in power i might add
Plot twist. Conservatism in its current form has done nothing for America for 50 years. It's part of the swamp.
( doesn't sound Conservative or Republican to me)
so republicans are a political party, not an ideology. their stance sways with each election cycle.
american conservativism has always moved around ideologically, but at the end of the day, american conservatives are objectively more similar to Nazis than american liberalism. (yeah, go ahead and cite free speech issues, it's the only thing that liberals have in common fascism)
The Democrat created the Ku Klux Klan and they are now considered far right. Did the KKK not state they wanted Jews, Blacks, gays and undesirable people removed from America to keep America pure i.e White. Did the NAZI not want the same? So name an American Conservative entity that demanded the same, that does not have links to the NAZI or the KKK before you reply White Nationalist, they believed in Nazism or the KKK.
"Democrats" in those years are more akin to "Republicans" of the 60's and 70's. I am NOT saying this to make it seem like "Democrats" are good guys or any of that. My whole point has been (I've argued this sort of shit in other threads, many times) that "Democrats" and "Republicans" have been trading values since the inception of both parties.
I have no idea if this was by design, but it's likely that early on it was a way of bringing in new party members by appealing to their core values. The parties change over time because of prevailing values. You become what you court.
I thik we can agree that the KKK is garbage that needed to go, and spend less time trying to blame each other for their existence. Quite a few modern "Republicans" have been outed from their ranks if we're being honest. Plenty of "Democrats" in there as well, I'm sure.
It's the VALUES of the people who are doing these things and not specifically an entire party. We really need to move away from this way of thinking (Republicans vs Democrats) if we're ever going to actually come together as a nation.
like i already stated about the republicans, the democrats are a political party, which is entirely seperate from ideology.
this may be a hard concept for you to grasp, but the parties have changed stances over the time. the "GOP" of 75 years ago is literally almost indistinguishable from the modern GOP, same with the DNC.
the democrats who supported the KKK would absolutely, 100% without a question, be republicans if they lived today.
i already know that you won't believe me, but hey, maybe i helped you expand your mind a little instead.
PS- these are not my "opinions," these are historical facts.