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WHY HAS FREEDOM BEEN “LEFT-RIGHT” OUT? With Donald Trump now the U.S. president-elect, don’t expect the Trump haters to let up on their hatreds.
Unable to articulate any objective reasons for hating Trump, unwilling to accept defeat with the grace they demanded of Trump, unable to understand the forces that drive political realities, completely ignorant of Trump’s platform and agenda (which we covered in detail on last week’s show) Trump’s critics resort to the use of labels they also do not understand. Ironically, the labels they use apply to themselves: “racist” “sexist” “nazi” “fascist” and the usual array of collectivist words and constant expletives used to attack the messenger in an attempt to hide a truth that they cannot defeat.
The “Trump Derangement Syndrome” as we have called it on previous broadcasts of Just Right, continues unabated as a self-inflicted handicap on the part of its sufferers. Ironically, the hatred generated by the syndrome is not really directed at Donald Trump himself. It is directed at what has been broadly – and mistakenly – called the “right”.
This is a truth we have learned from personal experience and which continues to be demonstrated to us daily. Given that the name of our freedom-oriented weekly radio show is called “Just Right,” that’s pretty much all it takes for us to be irrationally attacked in the very same way as is Donald Trump. Just check out past posts made by such critics on our Facebook page for the abundance of evidence. One thing these critics will never offer is an objective reason for their hatreds.
So all the hate is not really about Trump. It’s about the deep-rooted irrational hatred that collectivists of all stripes (left-wing, right-wing, socialists, communists, fascists, and all progressives) share against individualism, freedom, reality, reason, and of course, capitalism itself.
This is not to suggest that Trump is himself a principled champion of capitalism or of any consistent pro-freedom philosophy. Given that both Republicans and Democrats have been primarily anti-capitalistic and anti-freedom for several administrations, Trump’s positioning as an “outsider” has left his own ultimate political ideology (expressed through his actions and policies) yet to be determined.
At the heart of their hatreds of Donald Trump sits a great epistemological cause: minds that have been short-circuited and thus unable to resolve issues and concerns because the wrong words, terms, and meanings are being used in an attempt to express what Trump politically represents.
Nine times out of ten, the person who screams “fascist” or “Nazi” the loudest, is likely one himself. Those on the left particularly like to use these terms to criticize those on the right, not realizing that both terms refer to a phenomenon entirely of the left.
Now that those labels have become so over-used as to become increasingly dismissed, a new label has arisen: “alt-right“. As we reveal on today’s Just Right, “alt-right” is just a reference to racists and collectivists who are really on the left.
Small wonder so many are confused. Even the terms “left” and “right” are completely misunderstood, either in relative or in absolute terms.
Are the terms left-wing and right-wing relevant any more? No. Today, both terms are being used to describe “left wing” political parties (like Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives) which is why the terms are no longer a distinguishing concept as they are currently being (incorrectly) used.
The problem is not in the use of the “left” and “right wing” labels themselves; the problem is in discovering the objective and necessary definitions of those terms. There can be no political “progress” of any kind without a resolution of these terms.
Labels define the issues. Labels define the supporters and detractors. Labels form the framework of identifications necessary in a political electoral race.
Who’s left and who’s right? Is socialism on the left or right? Is fascism on the left or right?
Does it matter? Yes.
Why? Because all political discussions and options are framed around these labels. On the currently accepted (and incorrect) political spectrum of “Left to Right” – with “Communism” occupying the extreme “left” and with “Fascism” occupying the extreme “right” – FREEDOM has been LEFT-RIGHT out of the discussion! There is no place, no room, no location on such a political scale for freedom.
On today’s Just Right, we examine, once again, what various political labels actually mean in the light of reason and reality. The name of the game, as always, is “define, or be defined.”
In reality, Freedom properly belongs on the “Right”. All collectivist ideologies (including fascism, socialism, Nazism – and “Alt-Right”) belong on the “Left”.
On today’s broadcast we’ll discover why that’s Just Right.
2 Responses to “478 – Alt-Right Alt-Wrong / Collectivism – Individualism – Freedom”
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I’m inclined to characterize *Fascism* more as method/means than as a goal/ideology.
Individualism and freedom are lefty marxist ideas. Communism came from the idea of freedom for workers from boss hierarchy. Feminazism came from the idea that individuality is oppressed by sex roles, hence the rally to free women from the patriarchy. Transfascism is the idea that the free individual is so free that he can decide his own “gender”!
The proper idea of the right is Nature. Therefore, men and women should live as men and women (in their natural roles), because that is their sex-nature. Men should be allowed a right to property, because property is natural. Racism should be allowed, because that is also natural. And collectivism is, undoubtedly, natural for the majority of people. Nature is Cosmic Order.