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  • You’re free to think whatever you want about the right. You’re making valid criticism, but it goes both sides!

    The freedom in question is also the freedom of owning private property, like a house or objects… which tends to dissapear when you go to the far left, and everything is shared.

    Right is also going in the meritocracy direction. People could make criticism by saying that political left doesn’t reward intellectual jobs and studies, etc… and give people that abuse a better life. Leaning towards political rights gets more logical when you benefit from it.

    In the end, most people are selfish and will vote for whoever helps them the most. That’s the world we live in. Being pro-left doesn’t say shit if you have low income; you do not risk anything from it, and it might be selfish because it’s mainly to serve your own interests. On the other side, being pro-right when you get taxed a shit load for hard work, which makes you feel scammed, is logical as well. Selfish, but logical.

    But yea, in the current society, everyone wants money and wants to be rich, but to become rich, you have to be an asshole. Thanks, capitalism!



  • Complicated question. There is no fixed definition, and this is multi factorial.

    To put it simply, I’ll say

    Left: equality (economical, social, no discrimination), more state centered, ecology, at the price of private property (specifically private property of companies, factories, means of production) and less freedom (individual rights and economical).

    Right: more freedom (specifically economical), stronger (traditional) culture, patriotism/nationalism, less state centered at the price of less equality (limited help if you don’t succeed).

    Overall that’s not strict, and there are a few examples of that: non-conservative right (doesn’t seem to exist in the USA).

    It’s also important to say that people often have ideas that are a bit of both sides: ex: more economical freedom (right), but no patriotism/nationalism (less right), but more equality in terms of identity (gender, ethnicity…), democracy (can apply to both left and right)