EC
I just don't get it...When dictators take over the first to go
(be killed or exhiled) are the liberals - librarians, teachers, artists, scientists etc.
Yes, liberals help dictators get into power based upon their belief that these leaders will usher in their liberal paradise, only to find out they were used. It's happened time and time again. What does that say about the liberals' ability to judge leaders?
RaleighNCDUer
3. They simply don't know, or understand, history.
They could watch the History channel for a thousand hours straight and not hear that when the Reds took over Russia it was not the right who was their first target, but Kerensky and the liberals. The right that didn't flee in the civil war pretty much joined in with the bolsheviks.
Same in Germany. When the Nazis seized power they fought the communists, but their first targets were the liberals who supported democracy - many hard-core Nazis were radical communists who converted.
The real break down is not right and left, but authoritarian and anti-authoritarian.
So much stupid in one post. The primitive is from Raleigh, and I've come to expect stupid out of Raleigh.
Hardly anyone was able to flee Russia during the time of their revolution, it had nothing to do with being left or right. But Kerensky and the liberals did help usher in the Bolsheviks.
And the liberals in Germany did not support democracy, unless by some weird notion you consider the International Socialists to be democratic, which they aren't except in whacko world.
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