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To: tejek who wrote (141854)	1/18/2002 12:32:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1584954

Tim, let me ask you....do you think a liberal would be racist? That that would be part of his/her ideology? A liberal might be racist, but the racism would not be part of the liberalism. The same would be true of a conservative. Who do you think we be more opposed to socialism..a liberal or a conservative? Who do you think would be in support of socialism...a liberal or a conservative? Liberals (using the way it is used in America today, not the way it was used in the 19th century which has almost the opposite meaning) would be more likely to support socialism. They wouldn't support a massive amount of socialism (or I would call them socialists not liberals) but they support more government control over the economy and higher tax rates. You could call what they support "socialism light". Do you think an elected representative's political ideology should those of the people he/she represents? Ideally that would be the case but only because the people should vote for someone who's ideology they agree with, I'm not arguing that a representative should change his or her ideology to match the electorate. In a number of cases the representative doesn't match the people he represents to closely but the representative gets in power either because of his charisma (or lack their of competing candidates) , or the electorate liking his personal qualities or character (or hate the qualities of his opponent), or because of skillful well funded campaigning (or lousy campaigning by his opponent), or because of corruption, or other reasons. What was the ideology of the National Socialist Party of Germany? Once Hitler took over it was basically to follow Hitler and do whatever he commanded. Besides that it was more centralized power, hatred of Jews and certain other groups, and German nationalism. There was some socialist elements in terms of government control of the economy. The Nationalism fits the "National" part of the party's name. The Socialism appropriately gets second billing because there was less emphasis on it but there was some elements of it in the parties ideas. The hatred part obviously wasn't going to get included in the parties name. Support for tradition and esp. traditional holders of social and political power (the junkers, the laander, the wealthy bankers and businessmen (of course some of these where Jews and so particularly hated), and to a lesser extent churches, mostly Catholic in the south and various Protestant groups in the north) was not a part of the part platform. Hitler was charismatic and Germany at the time when he was comming to power was a mess, this gave him his opening. Tim