Left and right are artificial, meaningless constructs
Left and right are very useful construct… as a spectrum… on multiple axis.
It just seems completely meaningless, because so much here is tainted by the US perspective. And neither do they have a spectrum (with just two parties), nor multiple axis (again, two parties can’t represent nuanced opinion on different topics). In fact they don’t even have left and right, just right-wing and more far-right.
InternetTubes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It is like trying to equate which Greek god your tribal deity fits into
Left and right are literally left and right… there is no up and down… forward or backward… literally sides of a f-ing line.
As a concept, it is even more useless across international lines, so I’m not sure why you suggest that it is due to a single country. “Just right-wing and more far-right”… yes, very “spectrum… on multiple axis”… … … An atypical example of just what I criticize, and I have no doubt they will do a flip and be the “left” when it also suits recognizing US Democrats as such.
All you’ve given me the impression of is that for them, you prioritize the similarity of their international policies, and that you identify critically of them under the “left” deity. That is, it implies more about your beliefs to refer to them as “just right-wing and more far-right” by how you try to fit them into the “left-right” pantheon than saying “X is right-wing and Y is more far-right”. Try to apply that to parties of a different nation and you’ll end up with very different impressions, unlike if, as I suggest, you tried to apply a difference between the parties that try to follow their political goals within the structure of their constitution and design of their governments and those that don’t mind breaking it to achieve their goals.
The whole terminology of left and right, it’s ego, manifested, a way to say “I’m right, you are wrong” without saying it for something that never easily reduces down to so terseness.