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douchebag's youtube video does not get to forever redefine the two most
fundamental concepts in the vocabulary of political science. The
right-left spectrum has nothing to do with the amount of government, it
deals with attitudes toward tradition vs progress, religion vs
rationalism, freedom vs fairness, nationalism vs internationalism, and
the state as romanticized fatherland, or utilitarian institution. Nazi
Germany, fascist Italy, and Franco's Spain bore absolutely no
resemblance to the sort of "big government" welfare states of 21st
Century Fenno-Scandinavia. In the former the individual existed to serve
the state, whose foremost manifestation was the military. In the latter
the state exists to serve the people, and any notion of personifying,
romanticizing, or glorifying it beyond a useful social institution is
strongly suspect. |