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Fining race traitors’ fortunes keeps up the punishment and provides its own incentive.

We could even give some of the heirs a chance to make up for what was done to get their inheritance, to some extent. I don’t want to bankrupt those who were not in on the actual crime, but no one should benefit from their forebears without paying out of that sum for their crimes.

I do not want to live in any kind of police state. I doubt that Kennedy wanted to live in a Communist state. I would have stayed out of World War II. The disastrous policy was fighting Hitler and allying with Stalin.

You don’t have to be Communist to be pro-Communist. They used to describe a Communist as “a liberal in a hurry.” Liberals used the Communist Threat exactly the way they use the Holocaust today, to argue that if we didn’t give blacks all they wanted they would go Communist.

The South would have been in a lot better bargaining position against integration if the Nazis had ruled Europe.

The Genius Conspiracy buffs never take this into account. Ted Kennedy’s father was Ambassador to Great Britain and he openly praised the Nazis. He was a right-winger and he thought that would push the whole world to the right.

As a man who made a lot of his fortune selling liquor during Prohibition, Papa Kennedy certainly had no use for a police state of any kind. It was strictly politics.

At the end of World War II, the only loudly anti-Communist voices were those of democratic socialists.

The American right was not really anti-Communist for a couple of years after the War. Their leaders like Robert Taft wanted a return to Normalcy. They wanted the United States to get out of foreign affairs. Their leader in this in the Senate, Vandenberg, famously changed sides after a couple of years when he saw the Communist threat.

So, in this forgotten period of history, why was it the democratic socialists who were fervently anti-Communist and the Taftites who wanted no involvement? That violates all the rules historical amateurs have set up.

The American right did not see the Soviets as a threat. After all, it was couple of years before Roosevelt’s agreement at Yalta to give half of Europe to Stalin became reality. For a couple of years after Castro took over anybody who said Castro was a Communist was ridiculed.

That is forgotten now. The accusations that Roosevelt had given Eastern Europe to Stalin were considered near treasonous. That is forgotten now. The desperate all-out effort to save the Soviet Union with a Nuclear Freeze is forgotten now.

Robert Taft was not pro-Communist. He just did not see the USSR as something we should deal with. The War was over. We should come home.

So why were social democrats so loudly anti-Communist?

Because the social democrats believed that revolution worldwide was on its way. They were social democrats because they believed that. So the choice was between a democratic socialist world or a Stalinist world.

To understand this odd anti-Communism on the left and isolationism on the right, you have to have NOTICED it. Then you have to have some idea about how real people think without building a Conspiracy around it.

A world view based on Conspiracy is a form of Wordism. You start out with good observations, get caught up in them, and then everything has to be squeezed into a fantasy world where everything has to fit inside your Book.

To put it bluntly, a Wordist is a nut.

Many times when the South was being invaded by Federal troops I wished fervently that Hitler was still in Berlin. But I never had the slightest wish to live UNDER him.

Most of the people who used swastikas on Stormfront never spent a single day under an authoritarian, much less a totalitarian, regime.

One the other hand, Mommy Professor WANTS Communism, because he think people like him rule it.

He wouldn’t last a week.

None of this fits into a Conspiracy Book. To deal with reality, it helps not to be nut.