who are the new Nazis

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While George Orwell was a socialist, he was hardly showing the wonders of communism in his books. What he wrote was a warning about the dangers of totalitarianism, which could come from either the left or right.
And despite what you say, Ayn Rand was a hateful old hag who believed selfishness was a virtue, and who held Christ and his message of selflessness and universal love in contempt. And anyone who uses her as inspiration of how a government should work, or how a life should be lived - whether they're the Tea Party, of Paul Ryan - are the enemies of Christian civilization!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

The book explores a dystopian United States where leading innovators, ranging from industrialists to artists, refuse to be exploited by society. The protagonist, Dagny Taggart, sees society collapse around her as the government increasingly asserts control over all industry (including Taggart Transcontinental, the once mighty transcontinental railroad for which she serves as the Vice President of Operations), while society's most productive citizens, led by the mysterious John Galt, progressively disappear. Galt describes the strike as "stopping the motor of the world" by withdrawing the "minds" that drive society's growth and productivity. In their efforts, these people "of the mind" hope to demonstrate that a world in which the individual is not free to create is doomed, that civilization cannot exist where every person is a slave to society and government, and that the destruction of the profit motive leads to the collapse of society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

I suggest you look at the plot of Atlas Shrugged, which seems to show the evils of Government controlling everything.

All this is is replacing the alleged tyranny of the government for the tyranny of privatization. I don't know about you, but I rather like having the government present, so I won't get poisoned eating bad food, or won't get cancer from toxins spewed into the air or dumped into the water by industry. And anyone who's ever worked an industrial job (and I have) will tell you that they'd rather have the government telling the business that they must provide safe working conditions in the work place. Keeping people free from harm by cost cutting industry doesn't stifle creativity. In fact, just the opposite, as more inventors, writers, artists, etc. will continue to be alive to be creative.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

To those arguing whether the Nazi government was left wing or right wing, it was both. The party was called the Nationalist Socialist party-most likely to gain votes from both sides, but both extreme right wing and left wing groups of people. It contained ideals from both political sectors.

Many will argue that it is therefore a centre party, but that is how Germany itself explained it. I learned this in primary school, are your education systems leaving out these details of Hitler's regime?

Beelzebub is of the opinion that your request for excuse be granted for further entry, but I seldom regard Beelzebub as having any firm foundation, so many obstacles may remain.

The only sensible conclusion I can draw from your identifying conceptual opposites as being with the features of their own conceptual inverse is the initial confusion created by reflection.

Pushing for "limited Government" is not an opposite of Nazism. The works of Ayn Rand compared to the self-explained proclamations of Adolf Hitler are in near perfect agreement with requiring the concept of the corporation to subsume the means for the end at all possible opportunities.

The schools I attended taught the value of utilizing libraries, including the Library of Congress of the United States of America, as major sources of intellectual and established knowledges.

Nazis preached and practiced eugenics directly, while Ayn Rand promotes "purifying the breed" by utilizing exposure to assure death to any of the burdensome inferiors, under "survival of the fittest", and both regarded their own spawn as the most frequently fittest, and singularly fit for "exceptions" to any overly firm rule.

The "Tea Party rallies" have characteristics with much in common in the counting of the votes in Florida, namely, the quashed, and seldom seen, videos of the police running from the non-Liberals, instead of protecting the rights of the public against physical assault and violence from the non-Liberals. Representative Herger's praising as a Great American the self-proclaimed "Patriotic Right-Wing Terrorist" gives a foreboding of knowlege of the absence of enforced laws when criminal acts are committed by such "Great Americans" to silence any Liberal dissenter. The Liberal "dissenter" is much more often the charged person for "blood on the jack-boot attempted suicide-by-cop". The Nazis won elections about like Republicans do. Krisrallnacht was also claimed by the Nazis to be totally distinct from Nazi Party Members.

Non-Liberal protesters having a much lower subjection to technicalities of the law than other protesters is evidence opposite to supporting your results of flawed logic, and reveals a major non sequitur.

The Nazis revoked the Jewish vote, and any opposition to any supporting concerns about maintaining the availability of the Jewish vote is more in line with the Nazi Doctrines. Both religious based preferences and disfavors in voting is held to be an anathema to public elections in the USA.

(Your later postings reeking of aversions to "non-profit", "public", and "subsidized" funding of "monuments", taint the opposite Reaganesque ubiquities of the same, as if anything not of such strain requires crucifixion on a Cross of Gold for any non-monetarists' Public Works).

Tadzio

P.S.: Privatization of the "Big Bad" Government to the "Atlas Randian Pure" Corporation allows every individual person to be divided into so many small pieces for divine corporate consumption that “The realistic alternative to a class action is not 17 million individual suits, but zero individual suits, as only a lunatic or a fanatic sues for $30”, and forget about the obvious doctrine "We do not honor federalist principles in their breach." http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/09-893.pdf

Tadzio

I suggest you look at the plot of Atlas Shrugged, which seems to show the evils of Government controlling everything.

There is no "seems". That is one of the things Ayn Rand did with her long novel. Philosophically it is an attack on altruism as the basis of morality.

ruveyn