The right and left are subjective terms. It really depends where you live and people will be more or less left/right.
As a Canadian I think the American conservatives are right religious nuts rather than just right extremist.
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ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe not the right place to ask this, but why are American conservatives called conservatives? Where I live, in one of the EU countries, they would be considered extremists and the Democrats would be considered right wing.
k_rol@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think the American conservatives are right religious nuts rather than just right extremist.
Both are true.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well that’s not how that works.
Right wing means you believe that some people are naturally better than others.
Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable,[1][2][3] typically supporting this position in favour of conservatism, natural law, economics, authority, property, religion, or tradition.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Hierarchy and inequality may be seen as natural results of traditional social differences[11][12] or competition in market economies.
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
At least in Canada, most people I know think Liberal = anything left, Conservative = anything right. Maybe Americans are the same.
maniclucky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Basically. Our Overton window is fucked thanks to the Nazis in power. Both current and historical.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That is exactly American brainwashing. You are correct.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
In my country(that is in the EU), there are people that would call anyone that says anything remotely positive about gay people woke communists trying to bring Nicolae Ceaușescu back from the dead
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
why are American conservatives called conservatives?
For a full depth, non-lemmy-grade answer, a wikipedia article on US political ideologies explains the history & meanings.
MTZ@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It comes down to how American conservatives are extremely hesitant to any kind of change at all. In the extreme cases, like MAGA, QAnon, TeaParty, etc. that hesitance can lead to fear of change which can lead to things like violence and terrorism, etc. In short, they are called conservatives because they wish above all else to “conserve” the status quo, that often being racism, sexism, slavery, xenophobia, hate groups, misogyny, etc.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
American “conservatives” are anything but conservative.
They’re hyper liberal. They’re ripping up precedent left and right to institute how the think things “should be” as if it’s 250 years ago. The billionaires want slavery. They want to eradicate all minorities and anybody who isn’t white. They don’t have the support to do all of this all at once, so they’re starting with the people who will never support them first. Take away the support of the opposition and more and more unpopular actions can be taken to push things towards an oligarch controlled white christian nationalist organization.
They’re spending money like crazy but only in ways that support them politically. They’re trying to drive out anything that is remotely left ideologically until the middle is the left, and then they’re next.
MTZ@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah, I agree with you. They have driven the Overton window into another dimension.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I’ve been marathoning the old twilight zone episodes and it’s amazing how much today’s reality feels like we’re living in one of those episodes.
Makes me wonder what Rod Serling would say today.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
And denying climate change as it would require their thinking and doing to change. They hate that the most.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 weeks ago
Because they want to go back to white American male rule? It’s a very selective and niche time period they want to conserve.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
That is not a question and you know it isn’t
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re 100% right but we repealed the fairness doctrine in 1987, and ever since that, we’ve had politicized information cycles. Republicans in 1987 knew they’d have to lie to continue holding power; but they also have been enshitifying education too. A lot of people are just simply undereducated and comforted by their echo chambers. Have that happen for 40 years. Here we are.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The name is inherently nonsense. They aren’t “conserving” anything.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They are regressives
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Overton window got yeeted so far to the right it ended up in 1930s germany
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Man, it hits so hard because it’s true.