When it comes to race the G.O.P is just "whistling 'Dixie'"

Q:Why are some so adamant about denying that slavery had a big role in the Civil War and the makeup of the Confederacy?:

A: Because slavery makes people look bad. There is a long history of people ignoring the things that make them look bad and only accepting things that prove their point. There are still some places where people think that the south won the civil war, so is it so suppressing that there are also people that deny slavery had anything to do with it.

Q: Was the confederacy good for anyone besides the wealthy plantation owners?

A: Yes. The cheap agricultural products that were produced in the south gave the factories of the north an advantage in the emerging world market. Basically American products were very cheap, so we could export more readily. Otherwise no.

Q:What is with the gun fixation?

A: People like to think that they are safe when they carry a gun, they may not be able to control bad situations, but at least they can fight back against them (poor reason I know). Guns are also what our country has been built on, from the revolutionary war; to the genocide of Native Americans we have always had guns in our hands. We still feel that we are a country of wild things and natural spaces to be explored, and to explore those places we need guns. Plus we are hypervigilent against "the bad guy" because of the media. Really its mostly our hyper vigilance, but the rest sounds good.

Q:If a mob of African Americans were carrying side arms would people be ok with that?

A: Tom, we call those gangs and we don't like them but we tolerate them as long as they are in inner city areas and primarily minority areas. As soon as we see them coming into the suburban white areas we have a problem with them.

Q:Can one man be a socialist, a communist, a fascist, and a Nazi all at the same time?

A: NO!!
Why? Definitions (encyclopedia http://www.reference.com)

socialism
socialism, general term for the political and economic theory that advocates a system of collective or government ownership and management of the means of production and distribution of goods. Because of the collective nature of socialism, it is to be contrasted to the doctrine of the sanctity of private property that characterizes capitalism. Where capitalism stresses competition and profit, socialism calls for cooperation and social service.
In a broader sense, the term socialism is often used loosely to describe economic theories ranging from those that hold that only certain public utilities and natural resources should be owned by the state to those holding that the state should assume responsibility for all economic planning and direction. In the past 150 years there have been innumerable differing socialist programs. For this reason socialism as a doctrine is ill defined, although its main purpose, the establishment of cooperation in place of competition remains fixed.

National Socialism
or Nazism
Totalitarian movement led by Adolf Hitler as head of Germany's Nazi Party (1920–45). Its roots lay in the tradition of Prussian militarism and discipline and German Romanticism, which celebrated a mythic past and proclaimed the rights of the exceptional individual over all rules and laws. Its ideology was shaped by Hitler's beliefs in German racial superiority and the dangers of communism. It rejected liberalism, democracy, the rule of law, and human rights, stressing instead the subordination of the individual to the state and the necessity of strict obedience to leaders. It emphasized the inequality of individuals and “races” and the right of the strong to rule the weak. Politically, National Socialism favoured rearmament, reunification of the German areas of Europe, expansion into non-German areas, and the purging of “undesirables,” especially Jews. Seealso fascism.
(note those two go together)

communism
communism, fundamentally, a system of social organization in which property (especially real property and the means of production) is held in common. Thus, the ejido system of the indigenous people of Mexico and the property-and-work system of the Inca were both communist, although the former was a matter of more or less independent communities cultivating their own lands in common and the latter a type of community organization within a highly organized empire.
In modern usage, the term Communism (written with a capital C) is applied to the movement that aims to overthrow the capitalist order by revolutionary means and to establish a classless society in which all goods will be socially owned. The theories of the movement come from Karl Marx, as modified by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the successful Communist revolution in Russia. Communism, in this sense, is to be distinguished from socialism, which (as the term is commonly understood) seeks similar ends but by evolution rather than revolution.

fascism
fascism, totalitarian philosophy of government that glorifies the state and nation and assigns to the state control over every aspect of national life. The name was first used by the party started by Benito Mussolini, who ruled Italy from 1922 until the Italian defeat in World War II. However, it has also been applied to similar ideologies in other countries, e.g., to National Socialism in Germany and to the regime of Francisco Franco in Spain. The term is derived from the Latin fasces.
Characteristics of Fascist Philosophy
Fascism, especially in its early stages, is obliged to be antitheoretical and frankly opportunistic in order to appeal to many diverse groups. Nevertheless, a few key concepts are basic to it. First and most important is the glorification of the state and the total subordination of the individual to it. The state is defined as an organic whole into which individuals must be absorbed for their own and the state's benefit. This "total state" is absolute in its methods and unlimited by law in its control and direction of its citizens.

A second ruling concept of fascism is embodied in the theory of social Darwinism. The doctrine of survival of the fittest and the necessity of struggle for life is applied by fascists to the life of a nation-state. Peaceful, complacent nations are seen as doomed to fall before more dynamic ones, making struggle and aggressive militarism a leading characteristic of the fascist state. Imperialism is the logical outcome of this dogma.

Another element of fascism is its elitism. Salvation from rule by the mob and the destruction of the existing social order can be effected only by an authoritarian leader who embodies the highest ideals of the nation. This concept of the leader as hero or superman, borrowed in part from the romanticism of Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Carlyle, and Richard Wagner, is closely linked with fascism's rejection of reason and intelligence and its emphasis on vision, creativeness, and "the will."

Note that though there are similaritis between these there are mutually exclusive eliments such as elitism in some groups that has no place in true communism.

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