Political Memes

Right wing or far right?

When you get to "far", well by definition you have extremists. Things are distorted know because the far right has power and the far left essentially doesn't exist in our political system. So it's hard to ignore the extremism.

Also, though we like a spectrum, it doesn't cut in one dimension. One flavor of "right wing" says government stays out of stuff, especially religious stuff, but another flavor wants a theocracy. The latter flavor is at the wheel in the Republican party now, which is dangerous.

In terms of a realistic theoretical right position I'd say favoring reducing spend over raising taxes is a defensible position. Now problem again being the Republicans tossed this and spend at least as much as the Democrats, but are less responsible about tax revenue as they do it.

I'm wary of the dangers of partisan driven politics (your "team" becomes your ultimate loyalty), but in the current climate I side with the Democrats because the Republicans have just been getting more and more nuts. I still want to watch the nuance and vote for candidates rather than blindly for a party, because complacency can be a dangerous position.

The Republican Party of today does a massive disservice to any shred of the concept of a logical and realistic right-wing opinion.

And even then, the ideals depend heavily on the system functioning properly. Honestly a properly functioning right-wing state could be as good or better for individual freedom and security than a properly-functioning true socialist state.

However, I think it takes a hell of a lot of faith in the right-wing system to even get close to something fair and functional in the real world.