Owning Right Wingers on the Political Spectrum

[AProgressiveThinker]

[rdubwiley]

1. Cool video

[RGinNJ]

2. I love that kid.

[AProgressiveThinker]

3. Thank you!

That kid is me!

[Sander]

4. How about "Moral Politics"

by George Lakoff? How does his interpretation fit into your analysis?

[AProgressiveThinker]

5. I haven't studied it enough

But it seems a bit flawed

[Dustlawyer]

6. I wonder what his friends at school think?

I think we will be seeing this kid in a more serious role in about 15 years or so! If he is smart, and he is, he will teach college instead of being a politician. If he could run for office, I would vote for him now!

[AProgressiveThinker]

7. Thank you!

This is actually me in the video, I appreciate you thinking that I am intelligent and hopefully I will run for office as soon as I am eligible to! We need REAL hope and REAL change in this country!

[Dustlawyer]

8. Your welcome! Yes we do! I believe that we need to focus on the root cause of most of our

problems with Congress. The campaign cash where they have to fundraise all year round. They get periodic payments from the same big donors, sort of like representation on the installment plan. We no longer have Representative government b/c our politicians have to answer to their donors. I have been to a few of these in my time (Warning:I belong to the evil Trial Lawyers Bar). I watched a billionaire attorney have 30 UN-interrupted minutes with a once front running Presidential candidate telling him that he would continue to fund he campaign on a regular basis as long as he would get rid of the Estate Tax and oppose tort reform!
This is wrong no matter which side it helps! We need Complete Campaign Finance Reform (CCFR), including Publicly Funded Elections. We need to break up the media oligopolies and the big Wall Street banks. This would restore a great deal of the power back to the people.
Unfortunately, this seems to be viewed as a conspiracy theory or extreme. I cannot understand why it is so hard to believe that all of that money (there is soooo much of it) wouldn't corrupt hyper-ambitious politicians (to be a politician takes a lot of ambition)! I would be very interested in what you would have to say on these subjects.

[Scuba]

17. Good on you! Nice to see you here at DU.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. No shortage of Morans out there that say they're Conservative because they hate "Big Government".

[BillyRibs]

10. Jebus!

I feel like I just sat through a Political Lecture, Thanks I look forward to the continuing education.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. He's dead on that the Political Compass chart is the most accurate....

Just beware of ones where they claim Hitler was Authoritarian Left.

[BillyRibs]

13. Hitler was a Keansian,(SP?) not a leftest.

This is where the right tries to confuse the week minded.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. Hitler not only let the aristocracy keep their land, he made counts and barons officers.

[BillyRibs]

15. You Said, "the aristocracy keep their land," AND, "he made counts, and barons officers."

This is what made him authoritarian right, However, He also spent large amounts of money on Government works projects, Just Like our WPA and CCC. He also built the autobahn, up dated the railway, and city public transportation systems throughout Germany. That's what made him a Keynesian. Why Do you think the Germans looked to him as their savior? If The POTUS Stimulus package was a bit stronger in 2008 and dealt with the US's Crumbling Infrastructure We would be doing the same thing right now to Obama!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. Hitler created a thriving middle class to support him....

Our authoritarians have trailer trash spouting their talking points so they figured long ago that they don't need a middle class.

[Mkap]

12. The video

The video that he posted "An overview of america" was made by the far right John Birch society. So the video itself had an agenda, although some of the things they say in the entire documentary are correct like for example that their is no such thing as one-person dictatorship rather most dictatorships are actually an oligarchy who have choosing one person to lead, the problem with the documentary itself is that it groups every thing that is not their ideology into one group and then proceeds to explain why that one group bad and how they are the ONLY solution, basically they deal with absolutes. It short, it's a pretty terrible documentary one in which they think we are still fighting the cold war, if you ever view it on youtube be prepare to gauge your eyeballs out with a plastic spork

And Aprogessive thinker, if you are into political philosophy you should study political science. Thats what im doing as a college student and i love my classes

[deutsey]

16. Nicely done, very informative

Years ago, I had a heated email debate with a conservative friend who insisted Hitler was a leftist (based on what he heard on Limbaugh and Hannity). He conceded after I bombarded him with enough historically accurate info that I dug up online, but it would've been easier just to send him a link to this.

[freshwest]

19. Thanks for this.