Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "What Is the Alt-Right? | 5 Minute Video" video.
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2LegHumanist: The extreme left, or far-left, is generally considered to be communism, which was the politics of Karl Marx. The Communists, or as the US Govt. called them at one time, the Bolshevik influence, infiltrated the Democratic Party around WWI, and it grew. The communists took over what was called the Progressive Party, by 1944, and they merged with the Democrats by the early fifties. Here, look up the history of the Progressive Party (1948), and Henry Wallace.
There are two types of liberalism. We have classical liberalism, which was that of John Locke. Also, we have extreme liberalism, which was that of Kant and others, and it was that of the socialists. The US was formed around classical liberalism, from Locke. French Utopian Socialism, came from the ideology of Kant and others, which led to Marx. There's a big difference between the two, but the Democrats have tried to claim that they're same, by adding "gender equality" and "freedom of religion" to the definition. Locke believed in Christianity, but that it should not be allowed to control the government, such as the divine right of kings, and state religion. Extreme liberals are generally atheists, who want a full separation between church and state. In the US, a full separation was never intended, as Madison's 1st Amendment was only about stopping state religion, but it didn't ban certain religious aspects within the government. It was based upon Locke's ideology.
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Priceless, and it's the truth! I always have to laugh at those, who claim to be neo-Nazis or Antifa. These idiots think that Nazism and Communism aren't close to the same thing, and that Nazism is right-wing. The only reason that the Nazis and Communists hated Mussolini's Fascists, was because the fascists weren't as socialist, or far-left, enough, but they were still left-wing socialists. It's like this ignorant Antifa lot, who claim to be against fascism. Antifa was started in early thirties Germany, by both Communists and Nazis, who wanted to run Germany together. The Communists, now, call the Nazis, fascists, because they dropped some of their far-left socialist ideas under Hitler. I hate to burst your bubble, but if you're on the left, Fascism, Nazism, Communism, and Alt-Right are all left-wing socialist ideologies. The true right-wing, Conservatives and Capitalists, who practice real classical liberalism, have nothing to do with them. The Charlottesville riot, was leftists fighting amongst themselves.
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Moonlit Monkey: The problem with the Democratic Party, starting in the early part of the 20th century, was due to what our government called the Bolshevik influence, which they had started to investigate under several congressional committees. It was Marx's socialism/communism, which led to some of FDR's New Deal, where we first opened the door to leaving the personal merit and responsibility of the individual. The big change was Social Security, which I can see as a good thing, as that forced people to pay into a retirement savings account. It wasn't an entitlement per se; something free, or making others pay for us, but it was a socialist idea. Before that, a family generally had to take in their parents, when they were too old to work, creating a hardship on the young family, because people failed to save. FDR was also in bed with the unions, of which many were being controlled by the Communist Party USA, and this spiked inflation, plus devalued the dollar, over their continuing demands for pay raises. Maybe, if it had stayed at this level, we might have been all right, but it didn't.
As the far-left gained more control of the Democrats, they started demanding entitlements or welfare, and that is where we left a sustainable conservative capitalist society for a socialist one, and created a mass of people who take advantage of the system. We reached that with Lyndon Johnson, and this ideology came from the progressive's (communist) influence, who had been absorbed by the Democrats around 1951-52. We switched to socialism in 1964, with Johnson's "Great Society," and it has been a downhill slide of mounting debt, higher taxes, entitlement, lack of work ethic, and a hatred of merit and personal responsibility ever since, with an increasingly entitlement natured population. People had warned Karl Marx of this, and of course he scoffed at it, in his Communist Manifesto, claiming it wouldn't happen. It has happened in every nation that socialism has been tried in. Here, is where we leave individual responsibility, or the thought that others ought to be responsible for us, and that others ought to be forced, by taxation, to pay into a welfare program to keep another person of no relation up. That is the Robin Hood Effect. Starting with Johnson, each Democratic president has added another part of the socialist plan.
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