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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
Not really the thread to get into this but I'll leave this here for you to learn something from.
On the political spectrum, liberal ideologies are closer to fascism than conservative ones. |
The government control issue seems to be the catch point. But both conservatives and liberals believe in government control. Liberals tend to want the control and power shared among a greater number of people and public institutions (big and expensive government). Conservatives tend to prefer that the control is centralized more (like in fascism) and not shared (small and inexpensive). The inexpensive part tends to lead to less bureaucratic control and regulations from the government, but the control is then assumed by private entities and corporations. Don't forget, fascism was once called "corporatism". The idea of passing on responsibility to private interest groups, like in fascism, is a lot more similar to conservatism than liberalism. Fascism isn't big government that liberals support. It's small government like that conservatives support, but uses force and propaganda to maintain power.
Honestly, your figure lost it for me seeing liberals being monarchists. Traditionally, liberals and liberal movements are what led to republics and democracy. The whole underlying conservative ideology is to conserve traditions, power balances, social systems, social norms and institutions.
Think about why the Nazis were so obsessed with destroying communism. It was against everything they were for.