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::::Have you gotten around to actually READING something on the subject? William Shirer would be a good place to start.--[[User:PF Fox|PF Fox]] 12:30, 12 April 2007 (EDT)
::::Have you gotten around to actually READING something on the subject? William Shirer would be a good place to start.--[[User:PF Fox|PF Fox]] 12:30, 12 April 2007 (EDT)
:::::PF, here's a good link [http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/schlesinger-notrightleft.html Not Right, Not Left, But a Vital Center], [[Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.]], ''New York Times Magazine'', April 4, 1948. I suspect we're gonna use a lot of this material on Conservapedia. Excerpted,
"Left and Right, indeed, have become the characteristic political terms of our time. Without specific color or content, they define the polar ends of the political spectrum - a spectrum in which the word Center, fashionable a generation or two ago, is harder and harder to find. Yet the terms themselves have bred a new confusion. '''They were adequate to the political simplicities of the nineteenth century''', when the Right meant those who wished to preserve the existing order and the Left meant those who wished to change it. '''But the twentieth century''', here as elsewhere, '''introduced new ambiguities'''.
"The Fascists, for example, were not conservative in any very meaningful sense. They did not wish to preserve the existing order, or even to turn back the clock to some more stable century. They purposefully planned to transform the existing order into a new and all-absorbing authoritarianism, based upon the energies and frustrations of modern industrialism. The Fascists, in a meaningful sense, were revolutionaries. Yet their totalitarian ideal hardly fitted into the pattern of the Left, which had been the traditional home of greater freedoms and more generous aspirations. So, '''after boggling and uncertainty, ''they were assigned'' positions on the far Right'''.
:Note the keyword Schlesinger uses, '''''assigned''''', the same word I used in my defintion, '''''a method used to assign views to persons and groups which they do not hold.''''' [http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Political_spectrum&diff=95904&oldid=95895] [[User:RobS|RobS]] 13:20, 12 April 2007 (EDT)
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