Quote Originally Posted by CountArach View Post
Allow me to channel Tribsey for a moment...

You DON'T consider those right-wing...?

I am afraid there clearly isn't any point in arguing with you...

EDIT: I'm still bemused/amused by this... Could you care to explain what your ideas of a right-wing Social policy are?
You consider mass murder a right wing policy? Boy, that education system must be sooo unbiased!
These things are part and parcel of state control, something the right tries to minimize. The right thinks that government should stay out of people's affairs and be as small and safe as possible. It is the left that ops for huge government control over people's lives that can eventually lead to things like the holocaust or Stalins purges. I would not be arrogant enough to claim that Stalin's purges were left wing policies (as you have labelled the holocaust as a right wing policy), it is the work of an ambitious and ruthless person. It IS however made POSSIBLE in BOTH cases by leftwing social and economic (esp where the two are intertwined) policies. If it were not for the government control that Hitler and Stalin had, neither would have been able to do what they did. Socialist economic policies that made people powerless, and gun control (something very left wing) to make sure they could not resist. Sure, purges and holocausts are not part of the left's agenda, but stupid leftist policies make them possible.
The holocaust is NOT rightwing nor is it leftwing, it is the work of an evil person. What is important though is that that evil person was able to accomplish what he did because of LEFTIST policies. I mean come on! Did you really think that the HOLOCAUST is something conservatives support?! Conservatives support rightwing policies, the Holocaust is not a rightwing policy.