Left-wing versus right-wing

1. The ORIGINAL political spectrum

• Far left: Government has all the power and you have virtually no freedom of choice. Communists, Dictators, Fascists, Nazis, etc. are all here.
• Left wing: Government has most of the power, socialists are here.
• Centrists: Moderate government power, law enforcement, military, civil projects, conservatives and some moderates are here.
• Right wing: Minimal government limited to protecting others, conservatarians and libertarians are here.
• Far right: No government power, you and everyone else have unrestricted freedom of choice. Anarchists are in this category.

2. Adolf Hitler's Socialist policies appealed to voters

“Let me get this straight… We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!

3. Socialist policies offer NO freedom

""Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany's bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business.

"Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on other what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government.

"Hard-pressed for food-stuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism."

4. Socialist policies have not succeeded anywhere!

5. Socialist Industrial policy spectrum

"We have examples of nations, such as the Soviet Union, where the government had near-total control over the allocation of labor and capital. And I suppose Hong Kong would be the closest example of a laissez-faire jurisdiction. And then there’s everything in between.

I’ve already shared two great videos on government planning versus the market. I strongly recommend this Prager University video, narrated by Professor Burton Folsom, on the failure of government-dictated investment. And also this video narrated by Professor Russ Roberts, which shows how a decentralized market efficiently provides a bounty to consumers."

6. Pervasive use of misinformation - lies

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie ... the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, truth is the enemy of the state."

7. Conclusion

Food for Thought

"The goal of socialism is COMMUNISM.”
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Russian communist revolutionary and political theorist

"There are two breeds of Bolshevism ... there is NOTHING to choose between the philosophies of Moscow and Berlin [Communism and Nazi Germany].”
- Duff Cooper, British politician, 1939 August 23

"[Nazi] Germany is a DEMOCRACY in the best sense of the word.”
- Adolph Hitler

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