This is a real good article that goes into some historical detail about the true Left and the ?mythical? far right in the US.
With the relentless, far more often unfounded than not Right bashing going on this might offer some insight as to what it really means to be Left and what it really means to be Right, which just might wake some people up around here;
All Evil is on the Left
Some snipits;
Reading through this article unless you are in complete denial it is not hard to put into perspective that there really is no "Far Right", the Right are not "monsters?, and the Left historically have serious issues.
Something perhaps for those on the Left to remember the next time you want to bash the Right
With the relentless, far more often unfounded than not Right bashing going on this might offer some insight as to what it really means to be Left and what it really means to be Right, which just might wake some people up around here;
All Evil is on the Left
Some snipits;
When men like Senator McCain, who I give the benefit of doubt in his moral seriousness, seeks a moderate position, when anyone seeks the ?middle ground? in political debate, it is clear that the old bogeyman of evil on the ?Far Right? and evil on the ?Far Left? has enthralled them.
Let us be clear at the outset: there is no ?Far Right? at all. Those handful of nutty and dangerous separatist groups have no connection with what are called conservatives at all. They resemble, in fact, much more the very real Far Left. Recall that Jim Jones, the suicide-murderer minister, was a radical Leftist who supported ?social justice? and Democrat politics before he convinced his Jonestown thralls to drink poison Kool-Aid.
In politics, there is some goodness on what we call the Left; there is some goodness on what we call the Right; but there is no evil on the Right: all evil is on the Left. Before delving into the historical basis for this position, consider today what the Right and Left are supposed to represent. The Right is accused, essentially, of doing little or nothing about our social and economic problems. Those on the mythical Right are not accused of trying to impose enslavement on others ? Leftism, and Marxism, simply assume that in the absence of government such enslavement will occur in free markets. The position of the mythical Right represents the first rule of medicine: First, do no harm.
Racism was opposed in America by the Republican Party, which was expressly founded upon the rights of blacks not only to freedom but to equality.
Who, then, supported racism in America? The Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party in the post-bellum South. Their outrages were not committed so much against blacks as against Republicans, both black and white.
Reading through this article unless you are in complete denial it is not hard to put into perspective that there really is no "Far Right", the Right are not "monsters?, and the Left historically have serious issues.
Something perhaps for those on the Left to remember the next time you want to bash the Right