There Is No Left-Right Political Spectrum in America
The so-called ‘far right’ seeks to lift America up — to the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order. Anything else seeks to drag America down — to the heap of totalitarianism.
Countless names have been created and assigned to summarize and describe the various political ideologies and theories, which have been devised by mortal and imperfect men to establish governments or ‘order’ throughout mankind’s history.
There’s the left and the right, the far left or far right, monarchies and kings, emperors and empires, theocratic monarchies and autocracies, theocracies and republics, confederations and federations. And anarchy and oligarchy, to name just a few.
Then there are the various ‘isms’: communism and socialism, colonialism and capitalism, fascism and nationalism, liberalism, imperialism, industrialism and republicanism. Some are remnants of the past. Others have been redefined to betray their original meaning — the good and noble repurposed by tyrants and hijacked to disguise their own ruinous agenda or otherwise maligned to indoctrinate the uninformed to reject that which is good and decent.
Even today the evil ‘isms’ of socialism and communism gain popularity in the minds of the youth, while the objective and even proven morality and good of capitalism is rejected and despised.
Still, as a whole, what do all these ‘isms’ and other political ideologies or philosophies all mean?
While all seek to describe the various inventions of man, all simply point towards either freedom or tyranny to various degrees. This, in fact, should be the basis of any discussion of these myriad political ideologies; not whether or not they fall on some arbitrary and irrelevant left-right spectrum so frequently referenced today.
Communism and socialism, for example, are deemed to be left leaning ideologies, while fascism is deemed to be a right leaning ideology. But this is nonsense.
All three of these aforementioned ‘isms’ are tyrannical. Both communism and fascism were born from socialism. It’s akin to the “all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares” rule of geometry.
A square is defined by four right angles and four equal sides. A rectangle is defined as a quadrilateral (having four sides and four right angles) but not all sides must be equal — only the opposing sides. Thus the ‘square’ is a rectangle — because the definition of a rectangle doesn’t prohibit the existence of four equal sides — but a ‘rectangle’ is not necessarily a square; at least when all four sides are not equal. In other words, the definition of a rectangle is inclusive of the definition of a square, but the definition of a square is not necessarily inclusive of the definition of the rectangle.
Socialism is like the square. Fascism and communism simply build upon the principles of socialism. Socialism isn’t fascism or communism but fascism and communism are forms of socialism.
What is socialism? It is the failed social and economic theory that advocates for the collective ownership and regulation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange by all embers of an 'organized’ society.
Socialism is the transitional period or phase, which leads to communism. Communism, like socialism advocates for public rather than private ownership but prohibits private ownership completely. If socialism is a voluntary and naive concept, communism coerces its acceptance and implementation by utilizing the enforcement mechanism of the government or ‘state’ to achieve it.
How about fascism? It too is a form of socialism. After all, the founder of fascism — Giovanni Gentile — himself declared: “fascism is a form of socialism, in fact, it is its most viable form.” Like communism, fascism is the enforcement mechanism, which ensures the widespread adoption through coercion of the socialist political philosophy.
Fascism differs from communism in one fundamental way. Whereas communism prohibits private industry or ownership, fascism permits it superficially. Under fascism, an individual can own a company, but that company must serve the directives of the state.
But socialism, communism, and fascism all condemn and vilify individuality and freedom — asserting that there is no difference between private and public interest and that freedom glorifies selfishness. Instead, these three evil ‘isms’ postulate that true democracy is when the individual is subordinated by the state.
So to say fascism is far right and communism is far left is foolish. Both are equally tyrannical. In light of this reality, it’s likewise foolish to discuss American politics in terms of the far left and far right.
What is ‘far right’ in America?
Unlike every other Nation, which preceded the United States, we have a Constitution, which grants the citizenry unalienable Rights and exists to limit the power of the Government. Consequently, in America, there is only freedom and Constitutionalism.
Those, who guard these unalienable rights — who defend the second amendment or the first amendment against those hostile efforts to infringe upon them— are maligned as ‘far right extremists’ or ‘right wingers.’
Far right is a pejorative term assigned to describe rigid Constitutionalism. He or she, who is deemed ‘far right’ believes in the rule of law. The American on the ‘far right’ supports the Constitution and advocates for the founding principles of the Nation. The Founding Fathers themselves would be deemed radical far right extremists.
Consequently — at least in the United States — there’s no such thing as the ‘right’ or ‘far right’ in the traditional understanding of this left-right spectrum. If anything, there is only the ‘left’ and the left aims to drag America further and further away from Constitutionalism and liberty and towards tyranny.
Many in America presume to cherish the label of ‘moderate,’ or argue that America’s ideal position on our own political spectrum is the so-called ‘center.’ Yet the Constitution is a wall. It sits like a dead end and there is no going past it. It represents freedom. The Constitution and constitutionalism are the opposite of fascism and communism or socialism — celebrating individual liberty, rejecting collectivism, and protecting and incentivizing private property.
What socialism is to fascism and communism, capitalism is to Americanism and Constitutionalism. Our Constitution and system of government defined and limited within enshrines capitalism. Fascism and communism enshrine socialism.
If we are to continue entertaining the notion of a left-right political spectrum in the United States, the ‘far right’ should be championed and revered as the only acceptable position. Anything, which moves from this — left, center-right, or even far left — all represent an embrace of tyranny to varying degrees.
The left is already busy redefining the ‘far right’ in America. They call MAGA a fascist movement. This is absurd and conveys an impressive level of ignorance from those, who would make such a claim.
The left in America — the Democratic Party — is a tyrannical party, which embraces fascism, communism, and socialism. They do not believe in individual liberty. As communists, they speak of the collective good and attack the successful as selfish. As fascists they increasingly seek to permit select private ownership, while demanding these private corporations serve the directives of the state.
There is no right-left spectrum in America; only the lawful and the lawless, the free and the slave, liberty and tyranny. It’s just another imported European remnant of the past — from France, when the revolutionaries during the French Revolution sat on the left of the King and those supporting the King sat on his right.
It has no application or relevancy in America, where we have a Constitution, which limits the power of the Government. But then again, nor should the Democratic Party have any relevancy in America. It too represents that which the Founding Fathers sought to reject in the writing of our Founding documents — a party, which also imported its own corrupt political philosophy from socialist France, Marxist Russia, and Fascist Italy.
American politics is as Ronald Reagan described it when he said:
“You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.
This is true today. The so-called ‘far right’ seeks to lift America up — to the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order. Anything else seeks to drag America down — to the heap of totalitarianism.