This is your idea of "anti-government?"

What is Fascism - and its brain-damaged butt-baby Nazism - about if not complete and total worship of the State?

I see how the "left" and the "right" in this country are engaging in a slap-fight because certain "right-wing" commentators have pointed out that fascism is a form of socialism. Guess what? It is. As is Nazism - no, "National Socialism" is not some kind of false front. It was what the Nazis were all about. It still is.

The concept that "socialism" and "fascism" are somehow opposites is just World War II propaganda bullshit.

You want to read anti-capitalist screeds? Try The Turner Diaries. Or the writings of Francisco Franco. Or, hey, Joe Goebbels.

So the "right-wing" sock-monkeys are right, for once. Then again, it's becoming so piteously obvious that the whole Left/Right thing is a scam I'm starting to read about it daily online. The "Right" is anti-government? Then where were they while George W. Bush was expanding everything about government - spending, scope, and power - at a nearly unprecedented rate?

Oh, that's right: with their noses firmly clamped between his asscheeks. Where the Left is with Obama now that he's doing the same thing and telling different lies about it.

Once upon a time otherwise intelligent (and educated, which isn't the same thing) people apparently believed that statement, uttered decades ago by John Maynard Keynes, among others, in reference to the national debt.

But what does it even mean? On the face of it, isn't it transparent nonsense?  Let's see you borrow $100 from yourself.  Does that mean you suddenly have $200?

Ah, but let me explain how it really works.

I take from you $100.  That shouldn't bother you, because "we" - necessarily including you and I - owe it to "ourselves." Yes?

Now, to pay back that debt, I take from you $100.  Because you and I are still part of "we." And we owed that $100 to ourselves, yes?

So now we're square. The debt has been repaid. Only a greedy bastard could possibly complain. Gitmo for you, Gordon Gekko!

Isn't that simple?

Not convinced?  I give you the "bailout" - the largest single wealth transfer from the proletariat to the wealthy in known human history. In this case, the transaction above works out as $100 (plus a whole lot more) borrowed from you, and repaid to J.P. Morgan.

Which cosmic larceny, of course, is heartily supported by both presidential candidates.