Anyone else think its weird that everyone (every nation, every political party, even individuals) is becoming more & more authoritarian and conservative while pretending that everything is getting more "liberal"? For example the so-called "liberal" SJW crowd, they couldn't be more fascist and yet they get called liberals, the current US president & Hilary Clinton run as "liberals" when they are clearly wealthy state fascists just like the republicans, and so on.
Tfw the new blade runner of the 2010s already came out but everyone was too butthurt due to its liberal politics
Ryder Reed
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Wyatt Butler
No. It's only weird to those who still thinks the labels of liberal, conservative, left and right wing holds any tangible meaning in the last decade. The real fight has always been the vertical axes of authoritarian vs libertarian, and not libertarian in the Aaaaayyyn Rand or any politicians or fedoralord Libertarian, or god forbid Gary Johnson for the Libertarian party.
Ethan Gonzalez
It is weird. And interesting. Here's an interesting piece from Slate in which a liberal writer who obviously sympathizes more with what he calls "undemocratic liberalism" than with "illiberal democracy" looks at the ways these two approaches are unfolding against each other: slate.com
Angel Jackson
dangit when will those right wing hollywood elites let a proud left wing movie get the marketing it deserves dangit
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Nolan Peterson
I'll never understand this whole idea that the new right is supposedly so "populist" in contrast to the old establishment. I mean the Democrats in the US and the social democrats throughout Europe has been as populist as it gets for decades. They've been extending citizenship to foreigners just like how Julius Caesar extended Roman citizenship outside the Italian peninsula to make the populare faction more popular. The leftists have also been pushing all sort of policies that seem like bribing the people to vote for you. They promise voters bread and circuses and call it welfare.
Surely the economic protectionism promised by Trump etc can be considered as populist to some extend, but in contrast to the welfare state, free health care, higher minimum wage, free fucking everything the right wing populism is fucking nothing. The left wing populism is much more closer to real populism in my opinion and it doesn't even seem to gain too much criticism, or at least it's not called populism like it should.
I do understand that the leftist media call their opposition as right wing populists partly just to bash them, but it really makes me wonder how self-aware they are about their own populism, or do they really believe that populism is just a right wing problem?
Kayden Taylor
They're not fascist. They're "fascist."
The two parties aren't actually in opposition to each other. The left and right thing is a facade that's mean to divide people into two, and only two camps. The Clintons and Bushes and other political dynasties are actually closer than you think and they follow the orders of people from elsewhere. Nothing is as random and bizarre as you think, it's only meant to look that way.
The reason why people are betting on Trump is because he has a ton of outsider support that is tired of the left vs. right facade. You're right about labels being owned and operated in various senses but Trump's popularity is built off of the silent promise that he's going to take the presidency and by extension the US government out of the hands of globalist puppeteers. In the primaries you had record breaking votes on Trump's side of things and tons of first time voters because they see him as a way out. Whether or not he'll actually do that, that's why the "right" is seen as populist today.
Generally, the right itself is closer to the values that people want even if the party working toward it may actually be another facade. People want what's Right, not what's "Right," and in the case with US politics, Trump utilized this and used the Republican leaders (fake right) against themselves and roped in lifelong republicans, outsiders from all kinds of camps, and first time voters that would have never voted otherwise. That's the real reason why his republican "allies" are working against him. They were never really republican, they were never really the right, they merely exist to keep the actual right subdued and defeated by the left.
Dylan Campbell
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