Monday, July 29, 2013

The Left - Why Do So Many Fail To Understand What Is Rightwing? - Embarrassment?

The point comes up so often that I feel that I must cover some old ground once again.
There are few of us to the right of Neil Kinnock or Obama who haven't, on occasion, been called 'fascist' by some earnest, vehemently intolerant, ill-informed leftie.
But do they even know who is truly rightwing and who not? - Hardly.
Hitler, Franco & Mussolini - which one is the odd one out?
Of course, it is Franco who was an ultra conservative and thus may be reasonably referred to as 'rightwing'.
The others emerged from different types of socialism.
SIMPLES!

Er ... Yes! Possibly,