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Art's avatar

Even presuming this is entirely true, "Neo libs are 100% left of me", that doesn't make them left.

It's all explained here.

http://thetroypress.com/articles/art/20210314/art.20210314.html

If there's anything there you disagree with, we can have a conversation about it.

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Matt330's avatar

I read it and I was not impressed. He tries too hard to make the "left" heroes and the "right" villains. I understand his point about how modern definitions of the political spectrum are outdated. The problem for me is how he oversimplifies history. No shit the fascists were bad, but never try to whitewash communism to me.

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Art's avatar

I didn't notice any whitewashing of communism. -shrug- But, thanks for commenting.

The point being made here, though, was about liberals not being left - they're neither right nor left as the article points out. Do you disagree? If so, I'd be curious about why.

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Matt330's avatar

If you mean liberals as in Classical Liberals then yes they were unique in that the fell in the middle of the economic spectrum and believed in the rights and value of the individual. Traditional liberalism and conservatism here in the United States are based in Classical Liberalism. Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism have nothing to do with Classical Liberalism and there have been a lot of smoke and mirrors to pretend nothing has changed.

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Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

Yeah, if you don't define the two "liberal"s, you are confusing. The two are opposites.

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Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

True Communism is at the far LEFT endpoint of the axis, you know the REAL one that has 100% State control, 0% individual freedom at the far LEFT endpoint.

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Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

My point is using Communism in defense of your position is weak.

(Ha! You used the word "point" in two different ways, and I used it in a third.)

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Nancy's avatar

It actually makes Icon even more right wing than suspected.

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Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

Much too complicated. Can be used to obfuscate, making it dangerous as well as garbage.

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Art's avatar

It's erudite, not intended for the idiocracy, obviously, and it's the very opposite of obfuscation except, I suppose, for those with extremely short attention spans.

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Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

Sorry to set you off, M. Art. Just reinforcing my two cents. An axis is a line segment, one straight line ending in endpoints.

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Art's avatar

Indeed. The work referenced actually discusses at least for different methodologies of looking at politics with axies, all of them flawed, and it points out a lot of those flaws.

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Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

I agree the work does have some truth in it. It is complicated!

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Timothy Andrew Staples/pop122's avatar

I believe today's Populist uprising is telling the elitists to stop over-complicating eternal truths, like the eternal truth of the right side of the political axis being classical liberalism, increasing individual freedom, decreasing State power, to the RIGHT.

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