Being called “Far Right” is like being called a witch in the middle ages

By Jo Nova

A “Far Left Politician” is practically invisible, and usually harmless. But a Far Right politician is dangerous.

(To the people who use namecalling to silence opponents).

To be called “Far Right” implies someone is a horrible person, and you should probably hiss at them if they get too close.  But on the prime time news, even bureaucrats pushing for One World Government, or slave owning dictators like President Xi are rarely introduced as “the Far Left President Xi”. That would give the game away, wouldn’t it? There would be constant reminders of the dangers of going “too far left”.

In its purest form the political right just want individual rights and smaller government, yet the “definition” of far right keeps shape-shifting to become somehow horribly authoritarian, “like Hitler”, of course, (the Socialist). Who benefits from this absurd definition? — Big Leftist collectivists, of course.

We the people cannot even have a conversation with easily recognizable words. The word fog is not an accident.

The real horrors are not the right wing people waving a national flag, and talking about individual rights, but the far left committees in Brussels or Davos that want to take your money, inject you, tell you what you can say, and take away a medicine that might save your life.

Namecalling is a powerful tool.

 

 

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26 comments to Being called “Far Right” is like being called a witch in the middle ages

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    Graeme from way back

    As a general rule of thumb, far right is anyone who is not far left or who otherwise disagrees with the far left.

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      Harves

      ‘Far Right’ is just the shortened form of ‘Far too often Right’!

      Difference between a Far Right conspiracy theory and the truth? Hmm, about two years.

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    Tonyb

    As it happens my nearest big town Exeter was an epicentre for witch trials,often accused of changing the westher. By pure coincidence Exeter is now the home of the met office

    https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/dark-history-exeter-first-last-1609485

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    Anton

    Yes, it’s always worth reminding people what Nazi is short for in German.

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    RayS

    Or, as has been said, “far right, or right so far?” May have been Pauline Hanson?

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    bobby b

    I think the key is to embrace the label, and carry it as a badge of honor.

    “MAGA” is, to my lefty relatives and acquaintances, a horrid insult. I have three hats that say MAGA. I alternate between them.

    “Fascist” and “racist” are similar. If you wish to label me as such for your idiotic and illiterate reasons, fine, but get out of my way.

    The fact that you are running as fast as you can to the left doesn’t mean that I’m moving to the right, unless you consider yourself to be the center of the universe, in which case I don’t much care what you think of anything.

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    Asp

    If you want to be an extreme right wing person these days, believe in the following:
    -small government,
    -individual responsibility and
    -that the traditional family is the basic building block of society.
    Its that easy.

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    TdeF

    The endless conflation of National Socialist Hitler with the extreme right is typical of the deceit. The battle between Hitler and Stalin was socialist dictator against communist dictator. The destruction of all human rights and lives was common. There was no rule of law.

    But the left do not compare mass murdering dictators to Stalin, because he remains a hero. Our Prime Minister Albanese follows his hero Trotsky and Greens Leader Dr Adam Bandt adores mass murdering Lenin.

    And anybody who disagrees is called Extreme Right, as if they were Hitler.

    Lost in all this are the Conservatives who believe in all rights,the rule of law, democracy, the Constitution.

    It was our own Prime Minister who attempted last year to consign our Constitution to the rubbish bin with his Voice, a committee he would appoint which would rule over the parliament, the public service and the legal system. Call it a politburo.

    We just escaped absolute Communist rule by Anthony Albanese and Adam Bandt and their attempt to extinguish our democracy legally. Just as Hitler did. And like all Fascists, they were supported by Big Business and the Public Service including their ABC/SBS and Pravda on the Yarra.

    And the approved attacks on the Jews and Israel are well underway, as recognized internationally. And no one calls it out as classic Fascism. The world has seen it all before. I doubt Trump’s MAGA will have anything to do with our Fascist government.

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    Eng_Ian

    Far right also includes the belief of verifiable facts over emotion.

    How many times have we commented that you can’t reason with the left. Facts will not sway them. Quizzing them over HOW their policies will operate is tantamount to heresy. And then the name calling commences.

    Those to the right of Stalin will not be heard in the modern world. Well not unless you own a printing press, (see Musk).

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    David Maddison

    “Far right” as a slur has its origins after WW2 when Leftists didn’t want to be associated with the evils of the National Socialists. So rather than calling them of the Left, they said they were of the right

    The philosopher of fascism, of which National Socialism is a derivative, was Giovanni Gentile, a Hegelian Marxist.

    Leftists need to stop being in denial about the true nature of National Socialism. And we see from the Left much of the same behaviour today such as extreme environmentalism, veganism, black uniform wearing thugs of Antifa, antisemitism, violence, boycotts, “youth movements” and indoctrination of youth etc..

    Fascism and its derivative National Socialism is, to be sure, a different flavour of socialism than communism and Marxism, and today’s Leftists claim not to like National Socialists but Leftists have always been at war with other factions of the Left, there’s nothing new there.

    A difference between National Socialism and Fascism as compared to communism is that the former do allow some private ownership of industry, as long as industry does exactly what Government wants, which is more or less what we have now. National Socialism allows for a longer period of time to achieve state ownership of industry than communism which wants to do it overnight.

    As for the Left-Right political spectrum I place pro-freedom ideologies on the Right and anti-freesom ideologies on the Left, including National Socialism and Communism. Our Liberal-Labor parties are centrist but becoming increasingly Leftist, the same with Republican-Democrats in the US before TRUMP but now he is moving the Republicans to the Right, pro-freedom side.

    You might want to look at the following article. I can’t post the link because it’s a PDF and I can’t see what the link is on my phone but you can Goolag it.

    Journal of Libertarian Studies
    Volume 25, No. 1 (2021): XXX–XXX

    ABSTRACT: The Left has been represented by various currents that have historically been very aggressive toward each other because they used different tactics and strategies to achieve socialism. Like many intellectuals, revolutionary leftists did not get along with each other very often. Since the inception of Marxism, which is the doctrine of communism—an extreme and distinctive flavor of socialism—the Far Left has portrayed adherents of less revolutionary ideologies as enemies of the working people. The followers of evolutionary socialism—the Social Democrats—were accused by the Communists of betraying the proletariat. Non-Marxist currents of socialism, such as fascism and National Socialism, were excluded from the socialist camp and put on the right wing by Marxist-Leninist propaganda. Stalinist political science became a benchmark that distinguished between the genuine Left and the Right. This article shows the origin and historical background of the artificial shift of fascism and National Socialism to the right side of the political spectrum.

    SEE ARTICLE FOR REST

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    John F. Hultquist

    Well, they haven’t started stoning, pressing,
    or burning us “far right” folks, yet! Have they?

    I’d rather equate CO2 as the modern witch.
    Witches did unexplained things, as does CO2.
    And the ClimateCult™ is trying to purge it.

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    Skepticynic

    ‘Back in the day’, which is the newfangled way of saying back in the old days, ‘far out’ was a way of expressing approval. If you described someone or something as far out then it was or they were cool and groovy.
    There are very few political positions. You never hear far back or far forward, far up or far down, far away even.
    There’s only far right really, because you don’t often hear about the far left or even just the left. People are very quiet about the left, especially far left. Which is a shame. I think people who say far right should listen to Yeonmi Park talk about the far left. About what life and death is like in the glorious communist Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
    https://m.youtube.com/hashtag/1691

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    Honk R Smith

    The abbreviation is FART.

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    Me

    People who work for Government and Government instrumentalities, including ABC, SBS, schools and universities do so, bye and large, because they have a deep down fundamental distrust of private ‘for profit’ enterprise and as such are, whether they would embrace it or not, socialists, ultimately falling into the ‘we know best’ camp of not trusting people to make their own decisions based on objective observation and not wanting to expose the people to true equity … people getting what they deserve, both as individuals and groups … pretending that equality of outcomes is somehow equity, which it is most definitely not.

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    David Maddison

    https://thefederalist.com/2018/09/11/read-pile-top-nazis-talking-love-leftist-marxism/

    The Nazis were leftists. This statement is blasphemy to the academic-media complex, since everyone knows the Nazis were degenerate right-wingers fueled by toxic capitalism and racism. But evidence Adolf Hitler’s gang were men of the left, while debatable, is compelling.

    The dispute on Nazi origins resurfaced through the confluence of brawling alt-right and antifa fringe movements and recent alternative histories by Dinesh D’Souza and others. The vitriol and lack of candor it produces from supposedly fact-driven academics and media is disturbing, if unsurprising. They stifle dissent on touchy subjects to maintain their narrative and enforce cultural hegemony.

    “The Road to Serfdom,” by F. A. Hayek, is one such tract. Published in 1944, it remains a classic for young people on the political right discovering their intellectual roots. A sort of academic “1984,” it warns of socialism’s tendency toward planned states and totalitarianism.

    One aspect of the book can shock the conscience. Hayek describes Nazism as a “genuine socialist movement” and thus left-wing by modern American standards. Indeed, the Austrian-born Hayek wrote the book from his essay, “Nazi-Socialism,” which countered prevailing opinion at the London School of Economics, where he taught. British elites regarded Nazism as a virulent capitalist reaction against enlightened socialism—a view that persists today.

    The shock comes from academic and cultural orthodoxy on National Socialism. From the moment they enter the political fray, young right-wingers are told, “You own the Nazis.” At best, the left concedes it owns communism. This comforts a little, because even if far higher in body count, communism supposedly rebukes the scourge of racism. But it’s all a lie.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

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      David Maddison

      CONTINUED FROM ABOVE

      By these definitions, the Nazis were firmly on the left. National Socialism was a collectivist authoritarian movement run by “social justice warriors.” This brand of “justice” benefited only some based on immutable characteristics, which perfectly aligns with the modern brand. The Nazi ideal embraced identity politics based on the primacy of the people, or volk, and invoked state-based solutions for every possible problem. It was nation-based socialism—the nation being especially important to those who bled in the Great War.

      As Hayek stated in 1933, the year the Nazis took power: “[I]t is more than probable that the real meaning of the German revolution is that the long dreaded expansion of communism into the heart of Europe has taken place but is not recognized because the fundamental similarity of methods and ideas is hidden by the difference in phraseology and the privileged groups.”

      Nazism and socialism competed with the Enlightenment-based individualism of John Locke, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, and others who profoundly influenced the American founding and define the modern American right at its best. These thinkers fit easily with Hayek’s Austrian School of Economics, which opposed both the imperialist German Historical School and the Marxists.

      SEE LINK FOR REST

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    Murray Shaw

    Forget Davos, it has been replaced by Mar-a-Lago!

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    Great point you make TdeF about the conflation of Hitler (a socialist ie, NSDAP) and the right. A point I would also like to make is that the leaders of these far left regimes – such as Hitler – usually end up as totalitarian dictators. Let’s take Mao Zedung, Pol Pot, Putin, Castro, and so on. Governments of the far left usually look stable and solid until they collape in a shambles.Democratic governments of the right often look like a shambles but somehow survive through time and give their citizens a fair and stable society.
    I’ll go for right- leaning government every time.

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    David Maddison

    BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS:

    Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex
    Rupert Darwall

    The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left
    Dinesh D’Souza

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    Neville

    I’m a Conservative and I believe in the Family front and centre, upholding the law, freedom, small government, the free enterprise system and most importantly I believe in logic and reason.
    Obviously I could never ever vote for Labor, Greens or the Teals or any other far left groups who seem to hate science.

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    Me

    Never forget: The National Socialist Workers Party’ was a party of the left, NOT of the right as almost everyone assumes. The ALP was affiliated with it for a time in the early 1930’s

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    Robber

    Liberal Party Beliefs:
    In the inalienable rights and freedoms of all peoples; and we work towards a lean government that minimises interference in our daily lives; and maximises individual and private sector initiative.
    In government that nurtures and encourages its citizens through incentive, rather than putting limits on people through the punishing disincentives of burdensome taxes and the stifling structures of Labor’s corporate state and bureaucratic red tape.
    In those most basic freedoms of parliamentary democracy – the freedom of thought, worship, speech and association.

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    R.B.

    My definition of Left is someone who thinks superficial caring is better than nothing, hence, everybody who doesn’t agree is uncaring and far right.

    The Right are people who think that if it’s superficial, just forget about it and use the time to look after yourself.

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    Neville

    I wonder what they’ll call 22 year old Grace Stanke who is a Nuclear engineer and the 2023 Miss America.
    Dick Smith and 18 year old Will Shackel will be touring with her around Australia and the clueless “3 eyes Allan” dummy in Victoria will not be pleased.

    https://www.msn.com/en-au/politics/government/us-beauty-queen-and-new-face-of-nuclear-energy-campaigns-to-sway-public-opinion-in-australia/ar-AA1xgkUL?ocid=BingNewsVerp

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    Gerry

    The control of language is a powerful tool. Witness what is happening in the UK right now with “ grooming gangs”. And some journalists and politicians fighting back using “rape gangs” as the description of what went on. Possibly still going on.

    The left use control of language to manipulate the emotional responses of the proletariat. We aren’t allowed strong responses against behaviour of some Pakistani men because all of them would be Muslims. And the left, who see people as acting as members of groups and not individuals, see that as criticising the religion of Islam and by extension, prophet Mohammad.

    Calling the gangs “grooming gangs” elicits a more “civilised” emotional response. And it enables the behaviour to be ignored more easily. Somehow we are asked to believe that grooming is ALL that occurred.

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