<While not getting into the argument fascism, nationalism, and racism have always been associated with extreme conservatism, while socialism and communism have always been associated with extreme liberalism. Not my opinion, something you can find in any political science course and not disputed by anyone there.

Not too surprising that you would not find this opinion disputed in political science courses, which are about as far from reality as phlogiston chemistry is from chemical engineering.

Might I recommend you stay as far away from these courses (and the Marxist jackasses who teach most of them) as possible?

Then might I recommend examining the communist and socialist regimes that actually exist or have existed in reality, like the Soviet Union, Cuba, Cambodia, East Germany, North Korea, China, and North Viet Nam, and then tell me about their extreme liberalism? About their lack of racism, antisemitism (talk to a Soviet Jew sometime), or nationalism? About their tolerance for dissent? Have you talked to a gay person in Cuba lately? Have you ever seen anyone walk through a mine field, climb barbed wire, scale mountains, paddle across shark-and-pirate-filled oceans, or brave armed guards to get INTO one of these countries?

Good Lord, are you capable of any independent observation and reasoning at all, or are you just decaying into one of those strident collectivist parrots whose entire philosophy is whatever the last thing was that he heard at the latte bar?

I'm tempted to start up the thread on voting tests again.