What's the TRUE difference between the left and the right?
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The traditional differences were simply that the right favoured the rich, and the left favoured the poor. It's a lot more complicated than that now, but the fundamental core still stays the same. Capitalism is a system that greatly favours those born into rich families, and makes it nearly impossible for someone from a poorer background make big money. Socialism on the other hand, is more beneficial for the vast majority of the population. Side: Left
Excuse me. How do you think the rich got rich in the first place? It was because of capitalism. Bill Gates, the richest man in America, got rich because of capitalism. Socialism, on the other hand, insures only the equal sharing of misery. You are a fool if you believe otherwise. Side: Right
The traditional differences were simply that the right favoured the rich, and the left favoured the poor. as in the left made you poor and the right made you rich? Yes that's pretty accurate. The left taxes the pants off ye and encourages poor people to either get abortions or get on food stamps and welfare and have 20 kids. Side: Right
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What's the TRUE difference between the left and the right? With the left, decisions are made based on what makes you feel good. With the right, decisions are based on what does good. And then there are extremists on both sides that are vile pukes who are the left and right wings of the syncretic Nazi movement, meaning? KKK, Westboro Baptists, Communists, Marxists, M13, the Black Panthers, ANTIFA, etc. Side: Right
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It is the difference between good and evil. The left wants to steal your money and control everything you do. If that's not a definition of evil, I don't know what is. When there is a choice between what is right and what is easy, the left chooses easy. When there is a choice between life and death, they choose death, unless it's a criminal who deserves to die. The list goes on. I don't care what arguments or justifications you try to use. Liberalism is evil. Side: Right
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When discussing the people who make up the left and the right, I have only any real experience of Americans to sufficient degree to say anything fair, and as such I can only speak to the differences on the American political spectrum. I think the most basic difference between the modern American left and right is in their basic beliefs about the nature of people. The American left, in general, tend to think people are not all competent enough to take care of ourselves. They also do not believe in dealing with people as individuals to be held to the same standards. The American right, in general, think people are competent enough to run our own lives, and achieve success without government meddling, handouts, or quota systems. The right also believes the strength of the individual, which is at the root of their belief in human equality, meritocracy, and personal accountability. There are some exceptions to all of this (some moderates on the left, and freaks like the KKK and the neo-Nazis on the right.) Again, these are just general tendencies in the modern American political spectrum. Side: Right
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The American left, in general, tend to think people are not all competent enough to take care of ourselves. Why is it that almost all right wing arguments involve telling the left what it thinks? The American right, in general, think people are competent enough to run our own lives Then why are you telling other people what they think? Your definitions are complete and utter balderdash. Somehow, you have gotten the false idea into your head that the left is synonymous with large levels of government interference, but that the right isn't. The Nazis and the Italian Fascists, who were both on the far political right, are the most extreme examples of government interference and backseat driving in recorded history, so your contention is obviously rubbish. Indeed, you would know this without the need for examples, had you ever read a single word of Marx's work, whose theories you are here attempting to explicate. There are fundamentally only two important differences between left and right and they are both quite simple. 1) The left believes in social equality. The right believes in social hierarchy. However, since social equality sounds like a much better idea to the majority of people, it results in difference number two:- 2) Most people on the right tend to be enormous liars, since the truth puts them at such an immediate disadvantage during an argument. In this example, we can illustrate the point through the way you have distorted the left's belief in social equality into some kind of anti-individualist agenda. The truth of course is that left wing politics was invented precisely to give power to the millions of individuals being oppressed by the top of the capitalist and/or monarchist pyramid. It isn't individuals the left dislikes. It's the people keeping those individuals in eternal servitude through an elaborate web of lies and deceit. Side: Left
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Nom, Your definitions are complete and utter balderdash. Somehow, you have gotten the false idea into your head that the left is synonymous with large levels of government interference, but that the right isn't. The Nazis and the Italian Fascists, who were both on the far political right, are the most extreme examples of government interference and backseat driving in recorded history, so your contention is obviously rubbish. Indeed, you would know this without the need for examples, had you ever read a single word of Marx's work, whose theories you are here attempting to explicate. I can tell you know how to read, so I am perplexed as to why you do not bother to do so. Read my first paragraph. Side: Right
The American left, in general, tend to think people are not all competent enough to take care of ourselves. Good morning, m: Nahhh... Most people can take care of themselves.. But, there are some that can't.. Both liberalism and right wingerism is about them.. Right wingers believe that people can and should take care of themselves, but if they don't or can't - too bad.. Let 'em DIE in the streets.. Left wingers, on the other hand, don't blame the hungry - they just FEED them.. excon Side: Left
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Excon, Good morning to you, too. Left wingers, on the other hand, don't blame the hungry - they just FEED them. You touch on a core difference. Right wingers believe it is a core responsibility for individuals to look out for each other by giving from what they have. By contrast, left wingers believe it is a core function of government to take from some individuals and give to others. Were it true that left wingers "just feed them", we would not have any of the insanely wasteful government social programs we have. Left wingers would spend a dollar of THEIR OWN MONEY to buy a dollar's worth of food, and give that dollar's worth of food to hungry folks. Or they might give a dollar of THEIR OWN MONEY to a charity that would buy anywhere between 20 and 50 cents worth of food, and give that to hungry folks. (Simultaneously, a right winger would be giving $1.30, to buy 26 to 65 cents worth of food for hungry folks.) However, this is NOT AT ALL what left wingers actually do. The take a dollar of SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY, then use about 80 cents of it to support a cumbersome and inefficient bureaucracy that the hungry folks have to navigate in order to get 20 cents worth of food. Meanwhile, they tell the hungry folks that they have a right to that 20 cents that someone else earned, and that if they had more kids, they could get 40 cents worth of food. The American right thinks that they should be feeding folks, but that they should be using their own money to give food to hungry folks, not taking it from other people so they can pretend to be virtuous on someone else's dime. The American right thinks that they should be feeding folks, but that it is a private responsibility, the fulfillment of which binds the society together. The American right thinks that they should be feeding folks, but that it is an act of kindness the recipients should not claim as a right, nor forget to be grateful for. The American right thinks that they should be feeding folks, but that government will waste the money and help fewer people, all the while squandering the opportunity to build a tighter knit American community through generosity and gratitude of private citizens. The American right thinks that they should be feeding folks, but that it is insanely counterproductive to set up systems with the unintended consequence of encouraging people to have more kids before being able to support those they have. Side: Right
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