Not by a hair of my chiny chin chin....

**Watchman** · 12-31-2008, 00:33

Where exactly ? In calling his party "the National Socialist Party" ? I hope you realize the "Red Nazis" who read too much into that were pretty summarily banished into the political wilderness the second the NSDAP managed to grab the power.

And rah-rah "for the honest little worker" populism isn't exactly restricted to the political Left, if that's what you're thinking about. The populists are just selling more or less the same line to the one and same audience and appealing to its concerns; whether they're Left- or Right-wing populists has nothing to do with that, although it rather tends to affect the contents of the rest of the package being sold...

Also... *cough*JoeThePlumber*cough*
QED.

**Fragony** · 12-31-2008, 00:54

Originally Posted by Watchman

Where exactly ?

Where exactly is he rightwing? Let's start there, first thing about the political spectrum thingie, top down vs bottom up, state control vs power of the individual.

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 12-31-2008, 01:48

If you use the traditional right-left compass, I'd say Hitler is clearly on the right-wing. Fragony seems to be using the political compass, and his theories therefore have some credence if you look at modern extreme-right parties.

**Husar** · 12-31-2008, 05:24

Yes, the funny thing about such a spectrum is when your side looks bad you can just change a few definitions to your liking and voila, your world is all black and white again with you on the white side.
Needless to say the guys who fly airplanes into towers on purpose do that because they also changed every definition and interpretation to the point where they are absolutely white and nice like a bunny chewing a carrot.

Oh wait, carrots also have feelings...