Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 25, 2010
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Transcript:
Mark: Can I hold it? Woman: If you're careful. Mark: Wow... still warm to the touch! Woman: Remarkable, isn't it? Mark: Time for another visit from Library of Congress archivist Violet McPhee! What do you have for us today, Violet? Woman: An exciting new acquisition, Mark... the founding document of the modern hate-speech movement... Newt Gingrich's famous GOPAC memo! In it, the Speaker instructs Republican candidates to smear opponents with words like "sick, disgrace, corrupt, cheat, decay, pathetic, radical, traitor, greed, anti-family" and so on! The GOPAC memo is the Magna Carta of attack politics. It codified the toxic rhetoric that came to define an era! Mark: Fascinating... Woman: By the way, that's the Speaker's original copy - it's an extremely valuable acquisition! Mark: Even with the discoloration? Woman: Well, those are original mud stains - much prized by curators!
FCZ said,
“Mein Kampf as liberal? Backash, your definition of “left wing” is bizarre: just because the Nazis called themselves socialists didn’t make them socialists. They were, quite proudly, fascists, which is a very different political philosophy.”
First of all I said Mein Kampf was left wing not liberal. I use the word liberal in the classic 19th century sense and not the modern one.
Second: National Socialists were left wing as were the Italian Fascists and any other fascist group in Europe or South America in the last century.
Third: Socialism, Communism, Marxist-Leninism, Maoism, Nazism, Progressivism, & Fascism are all half-baked secular religious and statist cults based on false ideas of human nature. They are all doomed to failure.