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Public buildings should only be flying American and state flags, not confederate, christian, muslim, or nazi flags.

Same with religious verses. You wouldn't want a satanist verse on some public building.

The thing about public building is that they're payed for by our tax dollars, and represent ALL OF US.

Most of the countries south of us are suffering from the drug cartels and our draconian policies.

If we legalized all drugs, then the people could have their countries back?

He built the country up using supposedly socialist policies, then turned it into a massive war machine and paradise for german people?

So this means one of two things, either socialism works, or Hitler is not a socialist.

choose one

They only got elected within the last couple years, they inherited the problem.

do your research

German heritage and history!

Libertarians are for open borders?

They're already saying that ISIS is liberals.

Me neither.

silly cons, stop trying to use 5 year old arguments by saying Nazis were socialists because they had it in their name

Fascists did a lot more privatizing than they did nationalizing, read about how much Mussolini liberalized the economy to a less regulated market.

Yes, there are SOME intersecting policies with socialism and fascism, but their end goals are COMPLETELY different.

Socialism is pretty much based around the betterment of the worker, while fascism is completely anti union and pro corporate.

Why not?

If people are taxed a lot at low income levels then it'll be an incentive to keep moving up, right? Then the successful don't have to pay any taxes, and keep all their money.

Any people as they're of consenting age should be able to marry.

It should just be something symbolic.

Could this be the price you pay for making the military so unnecessarily large?

With all this talk of Jade Helm and other religious crazies and radio hosts like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck.

Come on, the conspiracy stuff is even more ridiculous than race baiting.

The only flags that should be flown on public property are the US flag and states'.

It's same reason why we shouldn't fly a Muslim or Christian flag.

It doesn't matter if it represents southern culture, we're a unified country and only the stars and stripes should be flying.

I predict that pretty much any cons that see this are just going to skip the text and comment, "BUT BUT, LEFT = MORE GOVERMENT AND RIGHT = LESS GOVERNMENT"

Without going into the social sphere (gay rights, abortion, torture) right and left ONLY refers to economics. Right is capitalism/individualism, where the means of production are owned by private individuals, and left is socialism/collectivism, where it is owned by the public via state or people.

Now, an important thing to understand is that the first leftists (communists, socialists, anarchists, syndicalists) all had the same goal. A stateless society where the workers own businesses collectively. The difference lies in how to achieve that goal, and how extreme.

The main reason why communism turn totalitarian is that power corrupts. Communists implement socialist policies and then don't want to give up power. Anarchism achieves what all of these other ideologies don't by simply rejecting state power.

Examples of anarchist socialist societies, Revolutionary Spain, anarchist Ukraine, Paris Commune. These societies didn't last because they were destroyed by fascists and communists. However, they WERE stable and were socialist. Workers owned all businesses collectively and determined their own wages. Help was also given to the poor.

Do you have an idea how authoritarian that sounds?

It's like saying "This is free country, but don't you dare criticize it."

Same with people who think the pledge should be mandatory. The pledge is a celebration of freedom, if you punish people who don't partake in it, then that's ironic as hell.

Super PACs are NOT free speech, they're destroying this country by allowing people with money to have the most influence on our government.

Fascists privatized more industries than they nationalized. LOL

Fascists used corporatism to help their economies, autonomous corporations in the hands of private individuals were the main parts of a fascist economy.

Yes, fascists DID respect private property and even embraced individualism. They only deemed private property a bad thing if it hurt the interests of the nation, which was rare.

"Under the Reich, corporations were largely left to govern themselves, with the incentive that if they kept prices under control, they would be rewarded with government contracts."

To quote again,

"It is an extraordinarily little known fact that in 1933 a cabal of Wall Street financiers and industrialists plotted an armed coup against President Roosevelt and the US Constitutional form of government. The coup planners — all of them deeply hostile to socialism — were enthusiastic supporters of German national socialism and Italian fascism."

Fascism and the Church were allied. Look up clerical Fascism.

Fascism doesn't want the government to take care of everybody, read about how many state industries that Mussolini privatized in the first couple years of his rule.

Fascism is built on the idea that a society must return to the past, tradition, gender roles, nationalism, and militarism. It is also anti leftist because they view them as destructive and culturally degenerate.

Conservatives seem to only ever focus on economics, while completely ignoring the social policies of ideologies which are MUCH MORE telling of the intentions of an ideology.

Oh yeah, one more thing, conservatives actually allied themselves with Fascists in Spain, Italy, and various other countries.