The enemy is at the same time weak and cowardly, yet everywhere and all powerfull…
Remind me, which ideology does this describe again?
“The left are the ruling class and elites”
and implicitly (sometimes also explicitely):
“The right are the true worker’s party”
That one always gets me.
The problem is that since the 90s neoliberal revolution — a lot of the major western “leftist” parties basically become neoliberal elite parties.
(Ie. Democrats US Labour UK PS France post-Mitterand SPD germany).
So the main left is often pro-status quo (ie. elite). Just that the right is even more pro elite by culling the poors and engorging robber barons.
Actual leftism, not neoliberalism or welfare capitalism, is very anti elite. But it’s often barely represented if at all politically.
If you want to get into that you really need to look at differences of how certain political terms are defined in various countries. I mean tendentially you’re right but party lines just don’t align internationally.
Conversely, the right are a bunch of elite billionaire morons, sending out violent moron thugs to beat up any dissenters and their dumb and weak moron supporters cheer them on.
Left wing policy seeks to distribute political power as far and wide as possible. In a (hypothetical) ideal, every member of a society would have exactly the same amount of political power.
It tends to move slowly, which sucks when families are in crisis.
Right wing policy aims to consolidate power, again with a hypothetical of a single point. Right wing systems move quickly, but do whatever the rulers want, ignoring the needs of the commons.
Given Aesop’s fable about the frogs who wanted a king and chose between king Log and king Heron (or watersnake or stork) this is a paradigm that has been around for a while.
Rather than right vs left, I reckon this is caused by the other axis, authoritarian vs liberty.
I forget if it’s English parliament or French estates in which those who agree with the king sit on the right and those who disagree with the king sit on the left, which comes down to pro-monarchy and against monarchy.
We have plenty of autocrats who assert they are pro-liberty, pro-equality and pro-popular-rule, but to the last, they all want to only give the rights they like, want all the power and want to hand it to friends and (preferably immediately descendant) relatives. Even the DPRK calls itself a democratic people’s republic.
Stalin liked Leninism so long as it didn’t do anything he disliked (at which point he ignored it). Valid criticism of Soviet communism is in the swiftness that it became susceptible to corruption – contrast US democracy which was corrupt (had its own mechanisms for stratified power) coming out of the gate.
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Thanks for sharing that story, I love it!
Also we’re all pink haired and gay
Um, excuse me, this is magenta.
Telekom law suite incoming
I actually hate the direction that Democrats appear to be going with the “we should tone down the ‘woke’ stuff because that’s what turns people off” bullshit.
It’s just called being a decent human being. It shouldn’t even need to be a fucking political platform in the first place. People need to accept this shit and move on with their lives (which seemed to be happening around the time of Obergefell, but then came Trump).
I think capitulating to voices that were never going to vote for you any way, and taking several steps backwards in terms of LGBTQ+ rights/representation, is a really bad move. It’s not about posturing, it’s about protecting people’s basic rights to exist as they are.
