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Re: Godwin does say we can call a fascist a fascist
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
A lot of the right wing "con" you're seeing is people who believe the following flailing in an effort to articulate it:
We don't want to expand or support govt except in ways that help us.
That's a lot of modern "conservatism." It's just selfish. They invent economic and ideological arguments for it, but it always rings hollow.
Progressives follow a similar angle. Here's progressivism:
We want to create a society where everyone gets all the things we believe they need to have personal dignity and a good life. We think people who have a lot should be made to pay for this.
That argument is DOA in any debate. So instead they argue how all of their spending would have multiplier effects that render it self-sustaining. Or they simply expand the concept of entitlement. "Every American is entitled to [insert]."
Sophistry + Advocacy
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Not sure why you styled this post as a response to Perlstein's article, since you are talking about something else entirely.
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