You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the right.

There is a big difference between socialism and social-democracy. What we have here in Ireland and in the rest of the Europe are various levels of social-democracy, not socialism. And while socialism have some good ideas like the one you mention and also things like free education, the system as a whole cannot resist without an autocratic totalitarian regime.

A lot of Social Democracy is still based on socialist ideals. There's no getting away from that.

And there is nothing about socialism or socialist ideals that make it irresistible to autocratic totalitarians, for they would use any system that would garner support from the wider public and certainly socialist thinking and ideals held more for the general population than the systems that preceded them. Whish is why they took hold so firmly throughout Europe during the industrial revolution and in the early part of the 20th Century.

The trans rights wars are largely being argued between centrists but of course the religious and alt Right are chipping in.

I have no sympathy for the groomer accusation for the following reasons;

Progressive left ideologues were the one's who started being utterly vicious with their TERF'S acronym and dismissing anyone with a rational argument as being transphobic, homophobic, racist etc.

Progressive left ideologues have been increasing targeting children to further their cause.

For Example

Maggie Chapman is a Green MSP. She is not transgender but what she is is a lefty loon. Basically nobody agrees with her bullshit, and she is using gender identity as a pawn in her wider politician games. She is not qualified to be taken seriously. If she is being accused of being a groomer she deserves it. The term groomer doesn't necessarily mean sexual groomer, like for example terrorists groom people as well.

The irony is that the "Progressive" Left are using the same type of rhetoric the Neocons and George W. Bush used during his 8 years as President.

"You are either with us, or against us."

Yes , like beaner showing up in Spain , your purpose of visit Mr Behan , I'm here for Francos funeral, he's not dead yet , I'll wait ! Too bad he only got a poxy strip of social houses on Jones Rd named after him !

No, of course not, to put it shortly socialisms is the enforced road to communisms. In socialism people who don't want it are coerced, in communism they are either happy or gone. Or so the story goes...

The discussion is about the wing which is more dangerous, there was an argument that socialisms is not inherently dangerous and my argument was that it actually is just as dangerous as fascism and nazism. And that's not just my opinion, it's the historical truth. Far left and far right are equally dangerous, or if we compare body count alone, far left is far more dangerous.

Nor do they have anything to do with right wing ideals.

The lot of them are weak populist grifters, not right nor left wing politicians. There is nothing right wing in Brexit or science denial, if anything right wing will favor cheap imported labour and free access to a wide market, from this point if view the protectionist aspect of Brexit is left wing.

And about wealth disparity, or even more important, cost of living, these are left wing policies consequences: energy prices could be halved if carbon tax and excise duty is removed, this will reduce the prices of everything. Nothing says more than tax the poor into more poverty than VAT on food and clothes.

No it didn't.

The simple pin prick in this silly effort is the British Labour Party and the various Socialist parties of all flavours that have existed throughout Western Europe. Your incredibly blinkered view on this is clouding your ability see anything other than your limited opinion on the matter.

I suggest you put your politics aside and crack open a couple of history books instead.

The Labour party was started by Socialists. Keir Hardie was a Socialist.

Read your history and stop with the silly nonsense.

"Too many on the Left today see "the Jew" as capitalism in an ethnic form and the struggle against one as part of the struggle against the other."

No, it's BDS propaganda that's stirred up the left. Nothing to do with capitalism. Just middle-eastern states using the Palestinian's plight as a stalking horse. Plus, as always, anti-semitism is there just below the surface. The 'Jew as capitalist...' I'd say you need to talk to Marjorie Taylor Green about the Rothschilds for that one.

What are you talking about? However bad things are being now, or however bad they are perceived to be, they are much better than they ever were in those socialists heavens - half of Europe, not isolated events. It is the right wing politics that create the wealth that allow us to afford be left wing in some aspects of society.

^^public schools, end of child labour, labour unions, public health services ...