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So please explain if you would Sir I would appreciate it.
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I only watched about the first five minutes and quit because I could see where it was heading as the narrative language sought to infer that:
- Progressive = 'left' = 'Democrat' = bad (remember that Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive - http://www.ehow.com/about_5133172_de...-politics.html)
- It is a negative to understand the context within which a Mao, Che, and Stalin might exist and to do so is to 'worship' them as 'icons of the left'
- Ronald Reagan - the icon of the modern conservative movement - was for a smaller federal government (yet he greatly expanded both the government and its power during his administration)
- Nazism was merely socialism ( a 'leftist' concept by inference) vice 'national' socialism (a much different animal although it entailed some aspects of most socialist movements as we understand them today)
- We are taught genocidal dictators only come from the political right (I wasn't) vice far or ultra right and left (I was taught the concept that the political spectrum was circular rather than linear and the extremes of either professed movement actually met on the back side of the circle, exhibiting nearly identical behaviors in spite of their labeling).
But, at that point of Mr Beck's (and Goldberg's) ' lesson' - I lost interest and closed the program.
Richard's $.02 
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