Rand Paul's co-author and prominent staffer is a racist

[_Droopy]

Your posting in this thread is confusing the Christian Reconstructionists like him with the Neoconfederates like Thomas Woods. Good job.

Play your games, D. Of course, Christian Reconstructionism and the Neoconfederate mentality have become linked through a body of shared concerns and similar sentiments. The lost cause ideology is closely associated with what its adherents consider to be traditional Southern values and culture as over against Northern, secular, urban cultural values (and an infatuation with agrarian culture, lifestyles, and value systems as over against urban, industrial ways of life).

Both are roughly libertarian in outlook, in certain senses, but Reconstructionism seeks to reinstate ancient Mosaic law on a national level. Even given this, they do have salient areas of agreement.

Both are hostile to the dominant leftist academic/media class. Both believe in extremely small government, nullification and/or the supremacy of religious law over secular, look at the Civil War as a blow against liberty rather than for it and as a prelude to tyrannical leviathan government, despise Lincoln, and think the issue of slavery was nothing more than a political sideshow masking an attempt by the federal government to grab power.

[_MeDotOrg]

Newspeak seems to be quite popular here.

'War is Peace'.
'Slavery is Freedom'.
'The KKK is more left than right'.

Might I remind some posters that the great Southern Avenger, John Hunter suggested the great American president (Lincoln) would have had a homosexual relationship with Adolf Hitler, had the two ever met?

When the Spanish military fought to overthrow the democratically elected popular front government, what was name was chosen by the group of largely leftist Americans who volunteered to fight Franco's fascists in Spain?

THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE.

How many Russians died fighting Hitler's fascism in World War II?

TWENTY MILLION.

On this point I would agree: Both the left and the right exist in continuums that range from totalitarianism to anarchy. At the extreme end of each, they become more similar. Totalitarian governments, on the left OR right, value the needs of the collective (whether the collective be defined as the proletariat or the 'volk') over the needs of the individual. At the anarchistic end of the spectrum, they value the needs of the individual over the needs of the collective.

In Western liberal democracies, we tend to have a more nuanced perspective, balancing the rights of the individual and the rights of the collective. Left and right may disagree on certain issues (gun rights, abortion, gay marriage, etc.) but in general extreme ideological positions are not popular.

But all of this is, at best, a deliberate attempt to draw attention away from the original post.