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You go too far to the right, you’ll end up to left.
This really isn't true. Popular culture in the west has been (and continues to be) bombarded with anti-left propaganda because the left leads away from the present holders of power and the right towards it. This has led to many misperceptions about the left, not least conflating it with Stalinism where the government controls every aspect of your life. In reality there is one simple difference which separates right from left and which prevents them from ever agreeing. The right wants a hierarchical and unequal society, while the right wants a non-hierarchical and equal one (or as close to that as achievable).
Are they saying that the US is going so far right that the whole political spectrum is also following more towards the right ?
I don’t get it.
It looks suspiciously like one of Brontoraptor's propaganda dumps to be honest. He basically just tries any combination of words he can think of to attack and/or disparage the left. The titles of the argument fields are classic Bronto language and the throwaway account adds to the probability this is unfortunately not a serious thread.
The right and centrists like me are capitalists and not socialists, although neocons absolutely can be fascists. The left would be either socialists, or communists.
I'm left and I'm not communist, socialist, or nazi and I don't know anybody that is ON the left. I'm for democracy. We can take something from any political or economic system and use it to our benefit ... IF we vote to do so. We hate Nazis, we hate communists, but, there isn't a political system in the world that doesn't have something good in it. We just have to be careful what we vote for, 2016 is a good example of a bad choice. (One of the worst ever!). Here again, we chose to overturn the bad vote. Socialism is an economic system that also has some good, some bad. We have to find the right amount of good. They've done so in the Netherlands and other places, and nobody hates nazis more than they do. We can do the same. We just have to find the right amount for U.S.!
I really like you Alfie, but I think your opinions have been coloured by the full century your country has been manufacturing anti-communist propaganda. There is no difference between socialism and communism. Not in the eyes of Karl Marx at least. They are two stages of the same system.
I am not interested in propaganda, bias or distortions of the truth. I am interested only in facts and objective reality. The objective reality of communism is that it attempts to create a fair and rational society which works for the equal benefit of everybody in it. Capitalism is the opposite of that. Capitalism tries to create an unequal society in which the large majority become almost entirely subservient to the wishes and desires of the ruling class.
You are not half bad, actually. Your stance on healthcare is good, I assume you oppose torture, I am a vegan animal rights person. That said, I disagree with leftists on other issues. You might if you are not a communist, be a center leftist, and not a leftist, and there is nothing wrong, with, that.
You are not half bad, actually. Your stance on healthcare is good, I assume you oppose torture, I am a vegan animal rights person. That said, I disagree with leftists on other issues. You might if you are not a communist, be a center leftist, and not a leftist, and there is nothing wrong, with, that.
I'm definitely on the left. I understand that wealth and power are big incentives for many people, but for me they never have been. I see exactly how these goals have corrupted society, led to an explosion in crime and essentially nailed the entire human race in a box of self-delusion it can't escape from.
I don't care about skin color because all skin colors are equally beautiful members, of ONE HUMAN RACE, created by Yahweh God. It is time for all Parties, Republican, Democratic, Chucky Cheese, to stop bitching, about, skin color!
I don't care about skin color because all skin colors are equally beautiful members, of ONE HUMAN RACE, created by Yahweh God. It is time for all Parties, Republican, Democratic, Chucky Cheese, to stop bitching, about, skin color!
Yes, but at the same time there are legitimate grievances because racism was institutionalised into the American system early on and the effects of that are still being felt to some extent today.
I agree and in the Sudan and China, it still is. Uygur Muslims, Jews, Christians, get sent to camps, and I think they have a beef with black people. I am refering, to China.
There might be a temptation to believe that racism ended when they took the chains off black people, but that was merely the beginning of a long road toward equality which has often been in danger of doubling back on itself.
