# The Center Slides Left - McAlvany Financial Group ![[Assets/4e0b445bd3f377b562ee945640a446fc_MD5.jpg]] ## Metadata - Author: [[Interesting Times - McAlvany Financial Group]] - Full Title: The Center Slides Left - McAlvany Financial Group - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.inoreader.com/article/3a9c6e77db1c7cbe-the-center-slides-left-mcalvany-financial-group ## Highlights - Human nature, as mentioned several times in this blog, is in its essence mercilessly self-aggrandizing. It seeks power, money, prestige, fame, esteem, and every other advantage it can get. Checks to this tendency are primarily spiritual and instructional (typically from family), but power-seekers can easily pass themselves off as having morals and self-restraint. By the time they’re found out, it’s often too late. - And incidentally, Nazism is not a conservative variant. It is leftist in its essence, and the name means “national socialism.” Nazism does emphasize nationalism, but with the stated goals of very leftist international conquest and total control. Hitler hated communism, but he didn’t hate socialism. - In these definitions is seen the bias for leftward movement inherent in government. If you start from the middle, you end up left of center very quickly. If you start on the left, you end up supporting the far left as we’ve seen clearly during the Biden years. Those on the “far right”—often simply true conservatives—are often seduced by Washington to begin the leftward trudge, but not always. They are typically the ones most substantively resisting the leftward drift of the entire government. - The Trump administration consists of people, and we have seen what temptations to power and money people give in to. They also give in to pressure, and no administration in modern history has had the pressure on it this one does.