The thing is that we need to differentiate at all times the rhetoric of politics from the reality of what the leaders actually do. So turn off the TV and the streaming web news coverage, read a few newspapers and start judging the wealthy and powerful by their deeds. Stalin and Hitler weren’t aberrations, they were reactions to the loss of power and prestige of the empires they were a part of. Stalin was called the “great helmsman” because he was viewed as a centrist. Hitler too was viewed as a “centrist” by many. I would say on the contrary that most of the dictators and tyrants of the world occupy a political “center” and those on the left or right of them become targets of their “order”.

http://stumpspeak.blogspot.com/2008/01/conservative-communism.html

“From Joseph Stalin to John McCain”
“From Mao Zedong to Mitt Romney”
“From Leon Trotsky to Mike Huckabee”
…or alternatively, to pin it on a movement guy more likely to have long-range effect:

“From Rosa Luxembourg to Rush Limbaugh”

Last Tuesday?

OK, this is the Irony Police come to whump on your ass just after we ask you what did you mean by that, that liberals are early or conservatves are late? Your cell at partyup-mano awaits.

Last Tuesday?

Christian Islam: Scriptural Orthropraxy from Mecca to Megachurch

It’s got the word “orthopraxy” in the title, so it’s bound to sell well.

Moreover, Rhetoric of Reaction (I forget the author) noted the origins of much of Lenin’s thought in the conservative thinking of Mosca, Pareto, et al.

This thesis is far more valid than Jonah’s …

Like the Communists, conservatives believe that national security is more important than individual freedom. (Russia, for example, had quite a lot of laws that invaded personal privacy in order to protect the nation from the United States during the Cold War.)

Communism and conservatism are both strongly opposed to such liberal ideas as “freedom of speech” and “the right to privacy.”

Also, conservatives frequently say that they wish to “spread democracy” to other lands, often through the use of war. Communism is democratic and republican (with a lower-case r, to denote a republic as a system of government). It’s right there in the names of the countries: the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic Republic of Korea, The People’s Democratic Republic of the Congo….

Some have have responded, though. I think we must take this as proof that Jillian has hit a nerve.

First, anti-Communists (even ones in 2008 like Idaho rep Curtis Bowers) often like the work of W. Cleon Skousen. The former FBI agent in 1958 published I have the perfect source material for you.

First, anti-Communists (even ones in 2008 like Idaho rep Curtis Bowers) often like the work of W. Cleon Skousen. The former FBI agent in 1958 published “The Naked Communist”, in which he lays out the Communist Agenda To Destroy America some of which involves corrupting the morals of American youths so that our great country rots from the inside.

But Skousen also published The Naked Capitalist in which he also shows that the top players in International Capitalism have a similar goal in world domination and play the same – but this gets little notice from the Anti-Communists.

Hell, Capitalists are interested (short term) in corrupting morals in the USA because they can make a bucks from it. Think of all the Capitalist hotel chain owners that contract to Capitalist hotel-porn providers to jack up room bills.

One little know fact is that after Gerald Ford’s Presidency, when he was “compensated” by giving him lots of Board of Directors positions, he wound up on the board of the first pan-and-scan hotel-porn company (prototypical “pan-and-scan hotel-porn” involves converting a “real porn” film through judicious sub-framing into something that never shows any naughty-bits but still contains the heaving backs and audio groans.)

You should ignore sources like Scopes that say that it is just an Urban Legend that Communists are working to corrupt America.

What part of JEW in WHITE AMERICAN MALE do not not can understands now?

Conservative Communism: From Firing Squads to ‘Firing Line’