chris1989 wrote:
When I say Right-wing, I don't just mean racists and neo-fascists as obviously they are bad examples. I mean someone who is a decent human being who happens to be a conservative who advocates free enterprise and private ownership. I seem to think that sometimes I they are all put together along with the racists in one group and seen by the Left and other groups that they all racist, all for the rich people and less sympathetic to the poor people and so when surely that is not always the case. I do find politics hard to understand sometimes and is problematic especially in the UK where we have Conservative, Labour, Liberal and other parties and the US has Republicans and Democrats. But there seems to me this perception that if you are on the Left or maybe in between, then you are good and if you are the Right, then you are bad. I know this may sound like over-generalising but that is how it feels.
Being the kind of right-wibger you describe yourself as doesn't make you a bad person. And 250 years ago, you might have been a leftie, because back then, right wingers were noblemen and royalists, and the awful lefties were businesspeople and tradesmen who wanted a say in politivs - you know, democracy.
but there are some fundamental issues with the status quo - mainly that things have had certain trajectories, and for the last 40 years, the whole world has been steering right, economically, and often towards liberal attitudes, socially. Which means there really isn't much of a society left to speak of, both in an economic sense and in social structure.
This atomisation is a problematic consequence, and the question is: should we move back, from the position of the economic right we ar at (i.e., leftwards), or give up on some of the social liberties (i.e. be more conservative).
personally, I don't think conservatism just won't work in a world where the flows of finance are flipping societies on their head once a decade, and I think social issues will all be alleviated with the wealth distriburion less jarring, so I don't think right wingers are bad people, I just think they think that they can get away. Like, buy a private island where ww3 won't teach them. or fly to mars, to avoid the climate wars. At least, lefties have understood that they, individually, won't be on that island.
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16 Jan 2022, 6:39 pm
