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Originally Posted by Stormlight
Left of what, exactly? Hitler?
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Hitler's official programme was in many ways to the left of Obama's. Unless one considers nationalizing trusts, confiscating war profits, profit-sharing in industries, increases in old-age pensions, the expansion of state-run education, a proposed ethic of common good before individual good, etc. to be right wing planks. ("Left" and "right" have to be defined for the purposes of discussion or people will often argue in circles and talk past one another.) Hitler, of course, ended up a tool of entrenched elites who wanted mostly the opposite.
You could send people transcripts of Obama speeches and say they had been delivered by Reagan and a great many people would believe you without raising an eyebrow.