Why communism is palatable in America while Nazism is not. There’s a very specific reason. And then I talk about Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield and why it’s important to us in community security.
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Links:
Rules for Radicals
Gulag Archipelago
Jordan Peterson: The fatal flaw in leftist American politics
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)
Does this mean that democrats like my parents, who are in no way socialist/communist/generally nutty, are “centrists rather than “on the left? I find it difficult to reconcile my parents with the descriptions and proposals you set out (or quote) in many of these posts that refer to “the left. I harp on the issue of definition because some folks commenting here clearly believe my parents are traitors for being democrats and should be punished/imprisoned/killed. Others are more reasonable, and focus on the real enemy which is communism/fascism/isms that don”t support individual freedom. When I see generalizations like “the left (which in mainstream use encompasses a huge swath of the population across a wide range of ideas) I tend to assume that imprecision of language reflects an imprecision of thought. Which makes it hard to argue with, both because the generalization isn”t something I can directly address, and because my reaction to the generalization makes me the think the speaker isn”t trying to make a rational argument or statement that”s supportable by debatable facts.