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The problem wiht this very eprsonal definition is that it tends to lead to some bizarre examples. Under it, Hitler would be a centre-right politican. He had expansionary economic policies based on state intervention at every level, and he succeeded in wiping out unemployment, leading Germany to escape from the economic catastrphe intow whihc it had fallen. Of course he was a mixture of different ideas – but his right-wing social attitudes – lebensraum, anti-semitism, women back to the kitchen – are what make him rightwing, not his economic policies*. He was a socialist, after all, but a national-socialist in the particular meaning of the term. I understand the seriousness with which you try to assess today’s world, drac, but while right-and left-wing definitons are difficult, yours doesn’t work. Hitler was not a centre-right politician – and neither are Farage, Le Pen, Trump etc. They’re not conservatives either, but right-wing radicals. * Economic policies aren’t left or rightwing according to expansion vs austerity, but according to the purposes which they serve.
Most political models i’ve seen show Hitler as centre or centre left. Labeling a socialist as right wing seems a bit silly to me.
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drac, it doesn’t sound as though you know your history, for one thing. Mosley was the elader of the British Union of Fascists.
I wasn’t talking specificaly about any of the people you mentioned except for Trump. Secondly, I reject the idea that fascism is limited to right wing politics. I can name left wing fascists for you if you like.
In many ways, such as a demand for more public spending on infrastructure, they are very similar to the Left. But they aren’t left radicals. They are seen as radicals of the Right (hence the Far Right). For you to say that Trump, Farage, Le Pen etc are centre-right is startling ebnough to beg the question, Just what does right-wing mean? for them to be in the centre? I would say they are reactionary Right in the fullest sense of the word. A guy called mark lilla has just written a book about such reactionaries called The Shipwrecked Mind. They are people who want ta return to a past whihc was ogreat but betrayed by a liberal establishment. For you to call them centre-right would definitely place you in oppsotion to Lilla. So how do you define right-wing? skep
To me the left / right divide is only based on ecconomic policies, for example infrastructure spending is a left wing policy, the right wing counterpart would be to privatise infrastructure and to let the free market invest in it. I would define a centrist is someone who holds both left and right wing views simultaniously on different issues, this describes most rational people who are not ideologues. For this reason I don’t really consider myself to be right wing, but I align more with right wing political parties because I am more conservative on social issues, which are usually more important to me than ecconomic ones.
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I also believe some ecconomic policies can be centre themselves, in the thread about tipping and minimum wage in the US, I said that they should have better protections for employee pay. I think the left wing policy for this issue would be to pay all employees in the compay the same regardless of their position, and the right wing one would be to have no minimum wage at all and let market forces decide the value of a persons labour. I don’t know if this helps explain at all, I am very tired.
I would say it makes them more center-right than anything.
I don’t think that Trump is actually very right wing, he has argued for a single payer health system in the past, amongst other things.
He has to appoint right wing people at the moment to keep the rebublican part on his side if he wants to actually get anything done.
We ARE NOT. We are war mongers and we push ourselves on other nations because we CAN.
There has been pretty much constant war somewhere in Europe for the last 2000 years, the US is fairly peaceful by comparison.
Also the myth of trickle down economics and the fear and greed of the elite keep the middle and working classes down.
What would you propose instead?
Regardless, yes, here…
Waiters and Waitresses, Bartenders usually get paid ONLY in tips. Their hourly wage is about $3/hour. So, please try to remember.In terms of others – you are supposed to tip the person that carries your luggage, and the person that cleans your room (if it’s an upscale place, on the last one – or if you feel they did a particularly good job). In some places, you tip the barista (that’s a person making your coffees), but in others you don’t. Tip: Look for the tip jar.
But yeah, your servers and bartenders LIVE on tips, or they don’t eat.
In regards to minimum wage in the US, the issue is more that not all jobs are entitled to normal minimum wage (waiters, bartenders, ect.). I don’t understand why you use this system it seems designed specifically to exploit low skilled workers. I think this should be fixed before you look at raising (or lowering) the minimum wage.
I’m sure an upper case “C” stuck right in the middle of a name would be noticed, and I dare say the other one is an upper case “i” which would be easy to stop by telling people to use an upper case “L” in their username.
It’s not actually that, the font here is the first one i’ve seen which actually has a visible difference in those characters. The one in the chat forums makes them look the same.
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See “draсulina” vs “draCulina”
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I’ll get around to replying to this thread …. oh look something shiny!
One thing that I find insane about US culture is that you don’t unclude sales tax on price labels. That makes no sense to me, why would you do that?
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What do you need help with?
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