Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "America's Stunted Political Spectrum" video.

  1. HAHAHA!!! The first issue you had is the way you plotted those people on the authoritian right. Because their stances clearly go much more to the left than that chart actually shows such as a lot of economic issues that they clearly displayed. Now since you went on the voting record you can probably find where they voted very much against policies that they advocated for which makes them simply liars. However based on their stances those democrats that you put in the right column is very dishonest (however good to point them as liars) and their platforms mostly equate to center-left authoritarian. Tulsi Gabbard is one of the few at least who puts her money where her mouth is though. I also find it very dishonest that you put Trump as far-right and he's in the middle of the right at most. He did left many regulations but he didn't de-regulate everything as that far right puts you to no regulations whatsoever. It also is very disingenuous to call him authoritarian when he largely made less laws and many social issues he enforced were more freedom oriented so the most he can be in the authoritarian column is maybe about 25% up. skip to the bottom for the tldr on this next long section Finally... on what basis did you put the nazis as right-wing? You put them there saying "yeah socialism in the name doesn't mean it's actual socialism" which is quite obvious. And the argument is far from simply "they had it in the name that's it" and it extends to many of their policies. But I also understand that describing nazi policy is out of the scope of this video. I will also not be calling them left-wing though because I have a very good understanding of their policies and you can largely find a video called "Nazi Economic Policy" on the between two wars channel by Indy Niedell and will be basing my information off of both that video and further readings. First thing's first: fascism is largely meaningless as a term and has had its most consistent use from 1944 onward (as documented by George Orwell who was actually a socialist btw and can still be seen today) as an insult for people who oppose you and you don't like. Part of this is because fascism is not an ideology beyond power and support of the people to the state. There was little to no overlap in Fascist ideology beyond being nationalists and authoritians which isn't exactly unique to their group. Second: fascism at least on the political compass is largely impossible to document beyond the authoritarian axis because they had a lot of contradictory views such as if they answered "Are the workers or the owners the priority?" the nazi answer would simply be "yes" and then later "no." Fascists just wanted power and do whatever they can to keep it. Probably why they relied so heavily on charismatic speakers. So now that we've broken down that fascism Isn't an actual ideology, let's look at the nazi economic policy. Nazi economic policy had two goals: money to the party, and growth through conquest. How was this done? First they banned unions as all control was to be given to the state getting people back to work in the factories making military equipment. Then they started to create cartels that had some business and the factories in that got all of the preferential treatment, and everything else outside of the cartel got shafted. Then started taking direct control of many of the industries. As they geared up for war it would become lebensraum where they would make more factories, more war material, to make more lebensraum to make more. So we've explained the policy, now what? Let's stop and analyze: the first thing you notice is that this Isn't an economic system. It's cyclical and really only has an end when the world is conquered where it just kind of falls apart. It's not a real economic System. It's not meant to work. It's a giant ponzi scheme that either ends in defeat or once the entire world is conquered. Overall it just kind of reaks of a madman who just wanted to burn everything down which if you've studied enough Hitler... you can see it might be the truth. Now for the individual policies: Worker protections being lifted is definitely right wing... if it benefits the private owners. Taking over and getting rid of the owners by the state is not right wing at all and very similar to the Socialist systems of state run industry only however the point is for it to be at the control of the people ultimately which it was not which makes it not so cooperative like the left-wing desires. And now for making business cartels, now that just isn't right. As in not okay. It can't be right-wing as it's an un-free market. However it isn't left-wing as it's not at all a co-operative economy. It's simply arbitration and overall just illegal or... criminal. Overall that's the whole system, criminal, and why the video I listed actually starts off with this intro: "Nazi economics- not capitalist, not communist, simply criminal." Now there is one definition that does lend fascism to the right-wing and that is "equality vs inequality" which is fine enough... but it doesn't really fit many people's definition of left or right wing and part of the reason the political compass even exists as a concept. Fascism was envisioned to be this new third way beyond the right or left wing. You don't get to call it either or because it doesn't fit. The best you can do is make the true statement that it formed as an offshoot of the socialist movements of the 1920s and 1930s who were dissasfied with their party and the focus on internationalism (to this extent the USSR under Stalin largely came to fulfill this promise), however the ideologies also took their own routes becoming unique and strange takes that ended up calling for war, conquest, and subservience to the state above all else (except Franco, good on him) leading to their ultimate demise and discredit as a system which largely simply never existed in the first place. I feel like I should sign off but I don't really know how so instead have this tldr. tldr; Hitler was a crazy idiot who really just wanted war and cared little on how making him neither right or left wing Edit: this comment is probably longer than the video if I actually recorded this
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