ANYONE who watched the recent violence in Charlottesville in the United States should feel disturbed at the appearance of a Neo-Nazi group so publicly in Australia.

Granted, the members of Antipodean Resistance apparently don't feel ready to march down the street with Tiki torches.

It's a sign the emboldening of Nazis and white supremacists in the US, fuelled partly by Donald Trump's initial failure to denounce them, is spreading here.

There are many reasons to feel dissatisfied with the political and economic order in Australia. We have a political class that seems to have too few people working for the public good and too many pushing personal agendas while using our money to their own ends.

The problems of our fractured politics is driving many people to look for alternatives.

Fascism, extreme nationalism, and the eugenic idea that some people are just naturally better than others is not an answer - it's the problem and the last time those ideas were applied resulted in one of humanity's most shameful failures as a thinking, reasoning, social species.

Somehow the idea of Nazism and white supremacy has become caught up in the left/right split once again dominating Western politics. However, Nazis have no place on that spectrum and no place in political discourse, however polarised it has become.

A philosophy that led to the murder of six million people, including 1.5 million children, is evil and it must be stamped out.