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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rarebird who wrote (1013)	1/8/2001 8:25:55 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

>>The Gov't should think twice before they subject some of their less intelligent citizens to death and permanent disabilities for.... what?<< Oh, I most definitely agree with that comment... but the situation at the time was very blurred... today, we can enjoy the benefit of 20-20 hindsight..... >>By ripping up their draft cards and moving to Canada, that is exactly what many in the anti-war movement did. The War was immoral and it took guts to question the empty principles upon which it was based.<< Your comment is very representative of the New Left's ideology at that time, but your thesis is not new to the events of that time... here, let me explain... there are a number of parallels between the New Left's ideology of the late 60's in this country and that of the European fascists in the late 30's... no, I'm not calling you a fascist...<g> not at all, but I would like to point out some parallels of the two groups...<g> here are some of the parallels: 1) Both were movements that were without a positive view of the future but were simply against their society -- against stability, traditional liberalism, capitalism, and intellectualism... 2) The Nazi's, like the New Left, referred to themselves as the "movement" (as you just did in your post to me) and they hated the "system." 3) Both proclaimed that liberal democracy was a fraud and rationality merely a prop for the evil status quo... 4) Both the fascists and the New Left had faith in the therapeutic value of violence... watching on television a group of students chanting, "Power to the people" and "The streets belong to the people" were also the chants of the Nazi youth in Europe... 5) There was the glorification of youth, anyone over 30 years of age was also the enemy... 6) Both the fascists and the New Left dehumanized their enemies, the Nazi's referred to Jews as "pigs" which is what American radicals called the police... 7) There was "mystical elitism" that made the radicals sure they represented a "general will." What this elitism meant in practice could be seen by watching the manipulations of any SDS group on any college campus at that time... That was the pattern I remember across the country in the late 60's and early 70's... violent rhetoric and violent action from the fascists of the New Left followed by the abject moral surrender of academic officials who the public had a right to expect would defend the universities and the orderly process of their academic jurisdiction... but there was a predisposition for academic officials to surrender... in a test of wills, the comfortable, liberal minded establishment was no match for angry radicals..... The problems at that time are too many to sort out here, but I did what I felt was right, and still do... and you are certainly entitled to 'do your thing' as they say.....<g> My Best Regards, GZ