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For me the only truly meaningful distinctions are between freedom/liberty and socialism/control. I've got a razor-sharp clear-cut distinction in my mind between what is and is not politically right and wrong. Anything that ever violates individual liberty boils down to socialism in one way or another, because it boils down to social control of what should be controlled individually.
To me fascism is just another word for one type of socialism, and it's a word that carries more connotation than denotation. It says more about the person using it to me than it does about the person they are using it against. To me it's idiotic to argue about whether or not George W. Bush is a socialist. The fact is, he has some correct ideas about freedom and some very incorrect ideas. Sadly, I don't get much insight about George W. Bush's problems from the left, because generally speaking they understand freedom less than he does. And the left and the unthinking anti-war crowd are the biggest purveyors of the word "fascist" in discourse today, so usually when I hear it, I know I'm not going to hear much insight that is of interest to me. (To be fair, I get the same thing from a number of anarcho-capitalist writers, and I am an anarcho-capitalist.)
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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There's nothing self-serving about my desire for freedom for all people.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers