This is an excellent article by actor Michael Knowles about
why Democrats call us Nazis:
The answer lies in the intellectual heterogeneity, or lack thereof,
within the two major parties. Since the Reagan Revolution, the
Republican Party has counted in its ranks at least four distinct
political groups: traditionalists, neoconservatives, libertarians, and
the religious right. In his excellent piece “Four Heads and One Heart,”
political scientist James Ceaser observes that these four major factions
of the Republican Party often approach politics from fundamentally
different points of view. In order for libertarians to share a “big
tent” with the religious right, they must force themselves to consider
an opposing point of view, understand the merits of its arguments, make
ideological concessions, and compromise.
The Democratic Party has no such philosophical disagreements and
therefore no such reason to compromise, at least in the years since
Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama brought the party back from
the brink of practicality. Conservative “Blue Dog Democrats” and
Clintonian “New Democrats” have almost entirely abandoned ship: all that
remain are ideologically pure progressives. Devoid of any internal
challenges to their ideas, the so-called progressives are left in a
Democratic echo chamber, finally free to, well, progress.
Read the whole thing.
