A Worry

I've been reading "Liberal Fascism."

The early chapters are on the rise of fascism in Europe. They cover the rise of the nazis and Hitler in some detail.

One of the core tenants of the book has been that fascism is not right wing at all, merely less left than socialism.

Fascists and communists fought over the left until only one was left in Germany and then moved to take control of the nation using any means that came to hand.

My current worry is McCain. He's not as far left as Obama, but he is most certainly not right of center about many things. The worry I have is that we are seeing a parallel of the German experience in the farthest left is rejected and we will get something evil while thinking we had staved it off.

This situation is why I maintain that we should not vote for the lesser evil. Evil is evil. The Republicans need to be made to understand that we oppose socialism and will no longer support a lesser version just to slow the advance of the opposition. We need to reverse the trend, not slow it.

By the way, Democrats, drop gun control, political correctness and socialism and I will be a supporter! Not a very long list at all is it? The huge one for the Democrats to give up will be socialism and the statist mechanisms associated with it. I am not going to advocate a total anarchy situation for the economy, but less regulation seems to make the ups and downs shallower (but more frequent).

I think less amplitude and more frequency is much more survivable down here at the street level.