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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Fascist is not Right. Fascist is Left. However much the Left claims Fascist is Right, that doesn't make it so.

To recruit the naive into extremism, extremist leaders classify everythng in terms of left and right. No left and right exists except in rhetoric. Only extremists and moderates exist. But if that reality is learned, then extremists lose power that recruits the naive and emotional. 'Them' verses 'us'. 'Good' verses 'evil'. 'Black man' verses 'white man'. 'Evil criminal' veses 'god's choosen gun owner'. This rhetoric successfully recruits extremists. Extremists know immediately; need not first learn facts, numbers, and the lessons from history.

Extremists know truth because sound bytes (evil big government, hate justified by personal rights, socialism is same as communism, evil unions, evil jihadists who ironically are brainwashed like evangelicals, etc) prove it. Other libertarians actually see things in terms or number, reasons why, and other concepts only found among the educated. But the more easily brainwashed know libertarian concepts because sound bytes and Rush Limbaught have told them what to believe.

Bottom line returns to one common factor. Extremists are told what to think by their political handlers. What is left may now be right. Then wait to be told details that justify that conclusion. Moderates first learn facts and numbers before making a conclusion.

Griff examples a brainwashed religious extremist. Does he first learn that pedophilia was openly protected by that church? Of the contempt that institution has for women as second class citizens and inferior clerics? In extremist rhetoric, one ignores such 'smoking guns' or recites rhetoric to defuse reality.

Easily recruited extremists are adults who think like children. They 'feel' it is true which proves it is true. Feeling alone is sufficient to know. Thinking through a concept using something more than a soundbyte is unnecessary. Extremists have a conclusion. Then look for facts to justify it.

Feeling does not come from the part of a brain that adults think with. That takes control after the age of 16. Adults learn facts BEFORE obtaining a conclusion. Adults learn that feelings prove nothing. One must think like an adult to become a moderate.

For example, do you plug your computer into a surge protector power strip? Then extremist rhetoric has successfully recruited you. Did you first learn what that power strip does? Or ignore its numbers to blindly know that protector and protection sound alike; therefore must be same? Recruiting one into extremism is that easy.

A power strip protector adjacent to a computer does not protect from destructive surges, can compromise existing protection inside that computer, and sometimes creates house fires. Did you learn these concepts as a moderate? Or just blindly believe extremists rhetoric that feels any protector must be protection? A moderate first learns these layman simple facts. An extremist recommends that protector only because rhetoric (directed only at feelings of a child) is sufficient to prove it necessary.

A moderate would first learn facts that demonstrate why that Monster product is best called a scam.

Why do so many kids take up smoking? Without an operational pre-frontal cortex, children know smoking is good only because they feel. Thinking logically like an adult is not yet possible. Unfortunately, many adults still think like children creating a mass who can easliy be manipulated using 'left verses right' stupidity.