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Originally Posted by New Era
Well, I'm not. You're trying to cut conservatism into onion skin slices so you can claim you are not party to the likes of David Duke. What I am telling you is that he embraces many of the same values and beliefs you do, which makes him conservative in nature. Where that differentiation comes in is his radical belief in a couple of important values, which differentiates you from him on the conservative spectrum.
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David Duke embraces many of the same values liberals, the left, and even the far left do, which makes him liberal in nature. Oh wait... perhaps it's not our similarities that define where we fit, but our differences.
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Communism is the extreme left of the political spectrum, and as such is part and parcel of the liberal left.
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Communism is fundamentally at odds with the liberal left. It's clearly left. But being left doesn't not make it liberal. To suggest so is to make the same fundamental logical flaw as saying all poodles are dogs, therefore all dogs are poodles. All of the liberal left is left, but not all of the left is liberal. It's core principles conflict with the fundamental belief in individual liberty that anyone who is liberal must hold to. Again, there's a wide spectrum beliefs in terms of how to achieve this, but communism is not liberalism. They are incompatible at a fundamental level.