1. The simplest way to differentiate political worldviews is based on 'humanity.'
There are a number of them, that view human beings as simply a means toward and end, that end being the attainment of heaven, Utopia, here on earth. And, if this vaunted goal causes the death of a number of people....well, 'you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.'
The political philosophies which believe so include communism, socialism, Nazism, fascism, Liberalism, Progressivism, and every totalitarianism iteration.
While not agreeing to the methods, the sorts of slaughter that took the lives of over 100 million people in the last century, even the mildest of these beliefs ameliorate the view by ignoring the well-documented butchery, claiming such is for the benefit of the 'collective,' the 'general welfare.'
a. " The excesses of the European versions of fascism were mitigated by the specific history and culture of America, Jeffersonian individualism, heterogeneity of the population, but the central theme is still an all-encompassing state that centralizes power to perfect human nature by controlling every aspect of life., albeit at the loss of what had hitherfore been accepted as ‘inalienable human rights.’
Goldbeg, "Liberal Fascism"
2. For purposes of comparison, the view which is the antithesis of the above is one based on defending the religious, political, and economic freedom of the individual.
a. In Thoreau’s On the duty of Civil Disobedience, he states: “There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all of its own power and authority are derived.”
3. A strong argument can be made that the term 'secularist' is one more version of totalitarian, in that it cedes all power to a 'beneficent,' unrestricted government....one which has no qualms about 'breaking those eggs.'
There is no shortage of evidence of same under the Obama regime.
There are a number of them, that view human beings as simply a means toward and end, that end being the attainment of heaven, Utopia, here on earth. And, if this vaunted goal causes the death of a number of people....well, 'you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.'
The political philosophies which believe so include communism, socialism, Nazism, fascism, Liberalism, Progressivism, and every totalitarianism iteration.
While not agreeing to the methods, the sorts of slaughter that took the lives of over 100 million people in the last century, even the mildest of these beliefs ameliorate the view by ignoring the well-documented butchery, claiming such is for the benefit of the 'collective,' the 'general welfare.'
a. " The excesses of the European versions of fascism were mitigated by the specific history and culture of America, Jeffersonian individualism, heterogeneity of the population, but the central theme is still an all-encompassing state that centralizes power to perfect human nature by controlling every aspect of life., albeit at the loss of what had hitherfore been accepted as ‘inalienable human rights.’
Goldbeg, "Liberal Fascism"
2. For purposes of comparison, the view which is the antithesis of the above is one based on defending the religious, political, and economic freedom of the individual.
a. In Thoreau’s On the duty of Civil Disobedience, he states: “There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all of its own power and authority are derived.”
3. A strong argument can be made that the term 'secularist' is one more version of totalitarian, in that it cedes all power to a 'beneficent,' unrestricted government....one which has no qualms about 'breaking those eggs.'
There is no shortage of evidence of same under the Obama regime.
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