A guy calling himself "Deplorable Virginian" with the Twitter handle of @LiberalsRracists attempted to engage me this morning.
Good little LEFTIST brown shirts.
LEFTIST.
Brown Shirts.
You know, folks, I suspect the Republic cannot long survive this degree of ignorant stupidity.
Let me break this down for you:
"Brown Shirts" was the nickname of the Sturmabteilung (Storm Detachment), commonly abbreviated SA, the original paramilitary wing of the NSDAP (the National Socialist German Workers' Party) or what most people nowadays would call the Nazi party of WWII Germany fame. The charming folks who brought you global war and industrial genocide.
Now, here's the thing so pay attention: the Nazis were FASCISTS.
Fascists.
Fascism is an extreme political philosophy based on militarized authoritarian nationalism. Don't take my word for it, look it up. Do it. There are literally hundreds of millions of words devoted to defining fascism, where it came from, what it entails, examples from history, and so on.
Now, fascism since its invention in Italy in the early 1900s, has had a number of variations, BUT the fundamental core of the philosophy, its very foundation is this: violent and unbending opposition to liberalism, anarchy, and left-leaning political systems such as Marxism.
The "socialist" in NSDAP is a translation from the political terminology of 1920's German and does NOT mean "socialism" as defined in modern American parlance. In point of fact, the definition of "socialist" in NSDAP is the antipode of "socialism" for the reasons outlined in the previous paragraph.
Fascism is a FAR RIGHT political philosophy when plotted against the traditional political spectrum. It is violently in opposition to ANY political system LEFT of its position ESPECIALLY socialism, communism, and Marxism. Which is why the Nazis and the Soviets HATED each other and fought a war of mutual annihilation.
The Nazis were fascists.
Fascists.
The Brown Shirts were Nazis.
Brown Shirts = Nazis = Fascists = Extreme RIGHT.
So to say "LEFTIST Brown Shirts" demonstrates a staggering degree of both historical and political ignorance.
Now, our grandparents fought -- and many gave their very lives -- to defeat the fascists. Our entire country was devoted to that endeavour in a degree of effort never seen before or since. After the fascists were defeated, we spent more than 60 years in steadfast opposition to the extreme LEFT political system of communism. We literally spent TRILLIONS in this effort, there are world ending weapons lying in readiness out there in the cornfields of the Great Plains and patrolling the depths of the sea as a result. We gambled our very future on that effort.
So if anybody should know how to format a proper political and historical insult, it for goddamned sure ought to be somebody from VIRGINIA, the very state in which the United States was born.
This ignorance, this increasing gleeful ignorance of Americans, is an abject failure of American education at all levels. This is a failure of leadership. This is failure of political discourse. Most of all, this is a failure of CITIZENSHIP.
And there's nothing amusing about that at all.
