Have you ever wondered why Communist and Fascist regimes have so much in common even though they are supposed to be at opposite ends of the political spectrum? The answer is rather simple. They are on the same side of the spectrum.
They are both products of the Left. They are both products of the same provenance, Socialism. That’s a fact everyone prior to the takeover of our schools by leftists, fully understood.
The Media, Academia and Entertainment, have also much to do with the erroneous perception of what "left" and "right" is in America. But what were the characteristics of these governments?
These regimes all share in the basic aspects: a single party, a grand leader, a totalitarian state structure, a vast surveillance program, an internal security apparatus, and a pathological hatred of anything that deviated from the accepted dogma, be it political, cultural or intellectual.
Communism and Fascism, are clearly more like each other than they are like anything in between. The difference is place of origin and other minor technicalities.
Karl Marx, is recognized as the Patriarch of Communism, and his principles are deeply entrenched in all his offsprings: Stalin's Soviet Socialism and the Fascist versions: Mussolini's Corporate National Socialism and Hitler's anti-Semitic National Socialism.
But Fascism was in fact, born out of Mussolini's dissatisfaction with Communism's economic failures. Mussolini came to realized that total state ownership of all business and means of production, resulted in abject failure and the misery of deprivation, as efficiency and productivity were suppressed by the lack of ambition and drive, in an otherwise mundane workforce, ruled by contagious apathy and void of aspirations. Hitler's version followed years later with it’s racist overtones.
Now, before we continue, allow me to make this very important point: Every American leftist was once a liberal but not all liberals are leftists. Let that sink in for a moment. Let's continue.
There are two types of leftists in the world. Those who crave political office to satisfy an insatiable lust for power, and those who will surrender their sovereignty to government. But this in itself, is too simplistic to fully understand the nature of the leftist mindset. We must look at history to fully comprehend what drives the leftist psychic, well at least to some degree.
The collectivist ideologies of leftism is generally associated with unlimited or maximum governmental control or power since this is required to administer a centrally planned and controlled economy, based upon the Marxist principle of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
This Communist tenet refers to access to and distribution of goods, capital and services. The term was coined by Karl Marx in 1875, in his “Critique of the Gotha Programme, the draft programme of the United Workers' Party of Germany.” Either way, these actions can only be undertaken with an authoritarian regime in place and a complete control of society with no room for dissent.
Here in the United States, we have a very poor understanding of the political concepts of "Left" and "Right." No fault of ours for the most part, as most of us are a product of public education, and the institutions of higher learning, which are dominated by leftists. This all began with the intellectuals of the German Marxist think tank, "The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory," after they were ran out of Germany in 1933.
These German Marxists academics eventually settled in New York in 1935 welcomed by Columbia University. From there, hardcore Marxist ideals infected just about every Ivy league University in America.
Now ponder this... What is the polar opposite, of the political "Left"? The ideology of no government, the political "Right," of course, which is known as "Anarchy," from the Greek anarkhos, meaning "without authority."
I’m not sure I’d go that far, given the fighting abilities of the exceptionally well-trained German army and the tactical prowess of their officers, but it’s certainly difficult to have an uprising without weapons.
In Germany, guns were required to have serial numbers, and anybody owning one without a serial number had to have one stamped on it. Gun permits were mostly left up to the police and were only given to people of “undoubted reliability” who demonstrated a “need” for a gun.
The law made it easy for Hitler to make sure his opponents couldn’t get permits and thus had no access to firearms. Ironically, these are some of the proposals floating around from the Democrats. There are curious parallels between the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968 and the 1938 Nazi weapons control law, but that’s another issue altogether for another day.
Here in America, the rights of Americans were considered natural rights acquired by divine dispensation, and were so well understood by the people of the era, that they did not have to be written down in complex detail. A clear example of this is the 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
There are many misinterpretations of the 2A percolating in the pot of misinformation. One common disingenuous argument we hear all the time is that the 2A, was intended for state sanctioned militias not individual citizens. This is wrong. I will address this one misconception today and leave the others for another day. Here is 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights with an explanation of what it meant in the 18th century English language.
"A WELL REGULATED MILITIA [trained, competent and disciplined in the use of firearms] BEING NECESSARY FOR THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE [to maintain sovereignty, personal safety and freedom] THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE [individual right just like the First, Fourth, Six, and Seventh Amendments] TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS [individually kept, privately owned firearms, ready for use] SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" [limited or restricted in any form].
This is the true meaning of the 2A. Anything else is either an honest misunderstanding or an intentional misrepresentation by those with an irrational disdain for firearms or worse yet, by those who fear weapons on the hands of the citizenry they intent to unleash their will upon.
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