Gingrich's new book compares Democrats to Nazis and Communists

[Insula Dei]

People compared Bush to Hitler and got away with it. I feel no sympathy for anyone who thinks Gingrich is extreme and if you look at the democrats today there really isn't much different between them and the communists from Russia in the mid 20th century. The nazis? I won't go that far but running Government Motors while it's still somewhat owned privately is a good start down that direction.

Do you actually believe all that???
Really, I consider myself to be a socialist and that anyone could mix up two ideologies as radically opposed as liberalism and socialism (or liberalism and fascism for that matter) is beyond me.
If someone who actually completed highschool would make such a comparison, it would be worrying enough. But when one of the most important spokesmen of the main opposition party in the most powerfull nation on earth starts to sell this kind of crap, it's just plain sickening and/or incredibly cynic.

[Insula Dei]

Derek, it's typical for conservative die-hards like yourself to have a distaste for everything that's even vaguely reminiscent of intellectualism since your ideas, obviously, won't last for longer than 5 minutes under any (I repeat that 'ANY', and that includes theoretically thought-trough forms of conservativism and libertarianism) critical form of evaluation.
You say that I've been brainwashed in school by the prevailing liberal bias of teachers. I can guarantee you that most of the teachers I've had in highschool were well to my right on every single issue.
You claim to be directly in touch with something you call 'reality'. The problem is that if in this 'reality' of yours there indeed is no palpable difference between communism and fascismif  and Democrats really adhere to both these 'evils', and if Corporate enterprise really is a force for good in any thinkable circumstances whereas the state can only deliver oppression, than your view of 'reality' transcends forgiveable subjectivity and becomes a dangerous illusion. And this is an illusion you seem to share with many on the america hard-right and one that's eagerily exploited by Big Bussines.

Boy, those guys over at BP and Halliburton must pray to whatever gods they still hold valuable every day to beg that your lot won't start to properly read up on any subject whatsoever rather than blindly following the leaders they have provided you with.

[Insula Dei]

Derek, it's typical for conservative die-hards like yourself to have a distaste for everything that's even vaguely reminiscent of intellectualism since your ideas, obviously, won't last for longer than 5 minutes under any (I repeat that 'ANY', and that includes theoretically thought-trough forms of conservativism and libertarianism) critical form of evaluation.
You say that I've been brainwashed in school by the prevailing liberal bias of teachers. I can guarantee you that most of the teachers I've had in highschool were well to my right on every single issue.
You claim to be directly in touch with something you call 'reality'. The problem is that if in this 'reality' of yours there indeed is no palpable difference between communism and fascismif  and Democrats really adhere to both these 'evils', and if Corporate enterprise really is a force for good in any thinkable circumstances whereas the state can only deliver oppression, than your view of 'reality' transcends forgiveable subjectivity and becomes a dangerous illusion. And this is an illusion you seem to share with many on the america hard-right and one that's eagerily exploited by Big Bussines.

Boy, those guys over at BP and Halliburton must pray to whatever gods they still hold valuable every day to beg that your lot won't start to properly read up on any subject whatsoever rather than blindly following the leaders they have provided you with.

Derek is a troll, but if you're seriously asserting that conservative/libertarian thought won't hold up under critical evaluation, then you might want to consider opening a book for once, preferably one not written by Karl Marx.

Funnily enough the point I tried to make is that Derek's ideas made no sense even when looked at from a conservative/libertarian angle. I'm sorry that if I failed to make myself clear but I was certainly NOT implying that conservativism or libertarianism didn't make any sense.