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[DanaC]

Why exactly is it you disapprove of being "bellicose" towards undemocracy and undemocracies again? Was it fascist sympathies? Myopia? Lack of faith in the idea of limited government? There really aren't any good reasons to be against crushing fascism, you know. Or you really should.

Yes. I have fascist sympathies. I am in fact so shortsighted as to be myopic and have lost all faith in mixed government.

The above is why I don't think you're all that bright. I wish you could be, though.

Aww. That's so sweet. You really do wish that don't you?

Clearly, then, I am not very bright. Certainly next to you I look like an intellectual lightweight, I realise this. I can only suggest you continue to utilise your vast well of patience and understanding when dealing with the slightly stupid.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Yes. I have fascist sympathies. I am in fact so shortsighted as to be myopic and have lost all faith in mixed government.

Aww. That's so sweet. You really do wish that don't you?

Clearly, then, I am not very bright. Certainly next to you I look like an intellectual lightweight, I realise this. I can only suggest you continue to utilise your vast well of patience and understanding when dealing with the slightly stupid.

Whether you want to convey sarcasm or not -- I know you do -- now you are forming the concept. Let it germinate and grow -- you're not making barley malt, don't kill it. And as it grows, you grow away from collectivist folly, the wellspring of fascist sympathies. Don't think "fascist" is being applied unfairly, Dana: remember that every fascist who ever lived and wrote described himself as a socialist at one point or another, and outsiders analyzing the collectivist and totalitarian movements have remarked on fascism going so far rightwards as to meet socialism coming around the other way. At this point, you couldn't find a difference to have to live on if you tried.

Which I hope goes to illustrate why I have absolutely no use for socialism nor faith in socialist policies. This is an attitude that is widespread on this continent, though not often as explicitly stated as I make it.

Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn made clear in Leftism Revisited that one cannot fight fascism in alliance with socialism, or fight socialism in alliance with fascism, and still remain on the side of right. Or for that matter remain fully human -- undemocracy selects for the inhuman and the inhumane. Both fascism and socialism are to be fought as facets of the same evil, and both to be brought to annihilation for that reason, to be replaced with some liberal form of democracy -- majority rule with extensive minority rights protection, be it a direct democracy wired through modern or futuristic communications, or on a republican model, which experience favors as conducive to both prosperity and stability. The workings of power should not be either too swift or too efficient. Power is best rendered accountable when limited in its scope and in its duration. Why is Zimbabwe so effed up? See if there is any limit in power's scope or duration for Robert Mugabe.

I observe that you really don't have any reasons for disapproving of being bellicose towards the less than democracies -- or at least no reasons that find words. At any rate, you choose not to address the point, and as usual the point not addressed is really the central one. I get that a lot. It's tiresome.

Laugh as much as you like, but you'll be acting as an adult if you're thinking even more than you're laughing. I am not going to fear your hoots, now or ever, so do put that idea out of your mind.