Something on "Hitler's Revenge" and alignments in World War 2--and the parallels today.
A post in response to the question, " Will never understand how Russia got away with invading Poland along with the Germans, we declare war on one and ally the other?" Historically the Right wing on the global scene has done far better policing its own than has the Left. With this quirk in ideology and the closeness of Germany as a threat, the "enemy of my enemy is my friend" approach was taken. It is, of course, a two-edged sword--sometimes self-defeating for the Right, and very much subject to use against them by their enemies on the Left. We've seen that in the past few years with claims that "conservatives" are duty-bound to ally with the Left against supposed "fascists," even to the point of destroying their own policy agendas. Much of this stems from White/Western Guilt manifesting as what some call, "Hitler's Revenge"--the phenomenon that nationalism for Western (White) nations is perceived to be innately "Nazi...