07-31-2022, 05:09 AM
Do we have much of a center-right in American politics? It seems to be vastly under-represented in American politics even if it has largely disappeared during the last forty years.
Ideally, most of the political contest in America is between the center-left and the center-right. The center-right seems to be the last people to seek to keep government activity from bloating. It is best that people exist who can say NO to excess spending instead of deciding that their pet spending is preferable to that of the other side.
Remember well: fascists are just as much for Big Government as the equivalents of social democrats. The difference is that the fascists want Big Government to serve such questionable ends as offering sweetheart deals involving public assets and enforcing the will of Big Business at its harshest. Trump, who is closer to being an overt fascist than any prior President, is as much a supporter of big spending as Obama.
Ideally, most of the political contest in America is between the center-left and the center-right. The center-right seems to be the last people to seek to keep government activity from bloating. It is best that people exist who can say NO to excess spending instead of deciding that their pet spending is preferable to that of the other side.
Remember well: fascists are just as much for Big Government as the equivalents of social democrats. The difference is that the fascists want Big Government to serve such questionable ends as offering sweetheart deals involving public assets and enforcing the will of Big Business at its harshest. Trump, who is closer to being an overt fascist than any prior President, is as much a supporter of big spending as Obama.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.