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In reply to the discussion: Ron Paul Joins Dennis Kucinich to Demand Obama Drone Documents [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)they're always absolutely right and the reason you can't do anything about fascism is because, if you're like me, no matter how much you know, no matter how much you investigate, no matter how much you think and look at things from a variety of perspectives and test and finally come up with a position on something that you're relatively confident of and CAN and are motivated to represent, both offensively and defensively, no matter how strong one feels about the reality in all of that, persons of reason ALWAYS retains, maintain, and respect a possibility that s/he is wrong relative to however much one thinks one is right. That's what people who aren't fascists do.
Not so those who call themselves "the Left". To themselves, they are absolutely right and everyone else is always absolutely wrong and they never entertain the notion that any of the nearly infinite number of complex factors that ALL OF US are more or less ignorant of COULD result in the tragic OPPOSITE of what they claim their trajectory is.
That's. dangerous . . .
and they don't give a fuck, because power, political power matters more to some people than the truth does, so such fascists on the "Left" and the Right NEVER admit the very very very real fact that some people, like PO, do, in fact know more about the issues, and might, just might be more deserving of our trust, because t/he/y KNOWS (and because unlike these so-called Leftie fascist and their blood bretheren on the Right) is capable of admitting the possibility of his own errors and, THEREFORE, has a higher probability chance of IN FACT being MORE correct/valid on whatever the issue is than any variety of political fascists are.
And the reason for that is because power is the motive of all fascists. It's what makes them fascists, no matter what label they wear, and it's what blinds them to reality and leads them and theirs inevitably to VIOLENCE.