Must say I agree with Mr. Earl.  At the same time I think it intellectually consistent to say that the world would be better off without any right wingers and that is true by definition.

Right wingers support three vile trends. Nationalism: and the belief of my country right or wrong, my religion right or wrong, my tribe superior to your tribe and so on.  Militarism: might makes right, war is a inherent good.  New methods of killing are the primary goals of humans and capitalism: competition is always good, gambling is always good,  The fittest survive and everyone else should die.  Do in your neighbor before he does you in. And so on.  One way or another, despite the fact that right wingers are people also, they have to be dealt with as they are a threat to everyone on the planet.

They must be driven out of power as a first step. I hope people will go to the world can’t wait web site and organize , organize, organize against the right wing by any means you think will work.

“Alas, for some reason that escapes me, intelligence is in VERY SHORT SUPPLY in the leadership of the nations of this world.”

People who can think things through and act on their conclusions in a way that betters themselves, maybe even makes the world a little better, seem to be few and far between. There’s been a war on thinkers longer than you can imagine. This is the trap of reason, like the trap of religion, it can justify anything.

There’s a simple code of conduct if you are a person of empathy and conscience: Do No Harm and a simpler rule if you’re not: Ideas trump Emotion.

Fascista translates a bundle of sticks,(stronger than one) but the firearm metaphor seems more visceral.

I imagine most people who hold extreme views are content to fire off the odd shot when circumstance permits and no personal risk is involved but there are some who gather together and fire in unison a shotgun pattern with little bits of intense damage over a prescribed zone. The combined effect is devastating, especially at close quarters.

Our intelligensia has always been content to stand back and wag their fingers and purse their lips while a war on intelligence is waged by the corporations, whatever shape they take. The dumbing down; making people feel afraid then offering to protect them. It’s controlled by a column of numbers that better add up. The individual is too busy and too worried to think much beyond the next paycheck.

Things are all wacked out of shape and many many people are hurting. Turns out the 21st century isn’t starting with a whole lot of feelgood after all. Idiots from both wings are flooding the airwaves with crap and gloom. Stir it up, spread the hate, smear it with fear.

We’ve counted on heroic myths to save us long enough. They remain two dimensional no matter how hard we pray.

It’s fertile ground for neocons of whatever hairstyle. they may not cause the next worst thing but they are ready willing and able to capitalize on it.

A cynic would say intelligence and foresight is a curse. Cynicism is the life blood of extremism.

Until you can demonstrate with reason the existence of Allah, your religion is no more rational than Christianity.

With the help of the old born-again Nazi Pope, the world will see a revival of a new era of Nazism. Here’s my intake on the Pope’s Nazi rhetoric.
Hardly a year after the chauvinist and crude attempt at stereotyping and attacking Islam by an unknown bigot right-wing Danish cartoonist seeking notoriety at any cost, comes another evil attempt against Islam by an ex-Nazi-turned-Pope, showing his true colors and turning Nazi again; but this time this Nazi language is done, without equivocation, in the name of a Christian religion and namely in the name of Catholicism. I am glad that Catholicism rhymes perfectly with fascism, Nazism, Communism, Capitalism and so on; whereas Islam stands as linguistically unconnected to any of these “isms” unless the coiners of evil languages would artificially force the word “Islamism” into the dictionary as they have devilishly forced the phrase “holy war” for “jihad”; which means in Arabic “an all round struggle against evil; whether from without or from within.” The expression “holy war” has no single occurrence, neither in the Qur’an nor in the voluminous sayings or traditions of Prophet Muhammad. Only the lucky enlightened few in the West know that the expression “holy war” was first coined by the Christian Crusaders of the West in the Middle Ages to describe their own bloody wars and campaigns against the Muslims. When it suited their evil propaganda against Islam, the so-called enlightened Western enemies of Islam started erroneously, but deliberately, to use the expression of “holy war” to translate the Qur’anic word “jihad.”
So here we go again, with the latest propaganda myth of the West about Islam, which aims at brainwashing the minds of simple unscrupulous people into believing that Muslims’ ultimate goal is to force Islam on the world. The ultimate purpose is, however, to keep people frightened so they can be controlled by their own governments and religious institutions to continue getting people’s taxes and church donations. The bottom line in all this is the evil mighty dollar and what it can do to keep the powerful and dominant political and religious class in power.
May I remind the evil and ignorant Pope that imposing religion by force was the trademark of the church he heads in the well-documented historical Inquisition started in Spain against Jews and Muslims and extended later on even against non-Catholic Christians.
A sincere advice to the not-so-sincere Pope: Instead of wasting the little intellectual power you have on attacking and denigrating the faith of one fifth of humanity in all parts of the world, why don’t you devote your energies to solving the problem of child-molestation by your priests, which has become another trademark of Catholicism due to its frequent occurrence in recent years?! 
“God is not pleased by blood…” says the irrational blind Pope in his diatribe. The old man has forgotten that the most cherished symbol of his religion is a “bloody cross,” where God, the Father, allowed and planned the slaughtering of “His only begotten Son,” so that ugly, stupid, evil and irrational people like him would attain “Salvation” and charge money from struggling people to get that “salvation” through his priestly class. That’s what I call the ultimate irrationality, and that’s why my pride in my chosen religion of Islam flourishes every day. In Islam, the highway to God is free open to every individual without intermediaries charging a toll for passage. That’s what I call freedom, rationality and respect for God and believers in Him. Thanks Mr. Pope for strengthening my faith in a more rational religion than yours!

Neo nazis had no chance to elect skin heads to the legislature when Gerhard Schroeder was the chanceller, who opposed Bush’s wars.

Now skin heads have a good chance to be elected during the reign of Angela Merkel who is known to kiss Bush’s arsse.

Do you see the correlationships between Bush, skin heads, Merkel?

Parliaments of ALL nations, to be truly democratic, need to include representatives of ALL people in those nations.

Isn’t it far preferable to INCLUDE those who populate the political/ideological fringes of our societies where we can HEAR them and WATCH them and know what they’re up to than to EXCLUDE them, removing any possibility of knowing their concerns and angering them to who knows what degree?

The skinheads, neo-nazis, communists, and other radicals on any of the political/philosophical wings are first and foremost HUMAN BEINGS. As with you and me, PISS THEM OFF AT YOUR OWN RISK! Give any of us enough reason and we’ll find a way to “get even.” You will either listen to your “enemies” or sooner or later you will pay the price. Your choice.

INCLUSION is the intelligent way to go. Alas, for some reason that escapes me, intelligence is in VERY SHORT SUPPLY in the leadership of the nations of this world.