Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Extra History"
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The right vs left divide traces its roots back to royalists vs those that opposed them. Taken out of that specific context, it's best understood as drawing a distinction between entrenched power and populism. Any time you fall on the populist side of that divide, you're supporting a left-wing position. For example, libertarians are by in large left wing on social issues while right wing on economic issues (mostly due to what IMO is a misunderstanding of economics, though I'm sure they'd say the same about me).
Sure, it's neither a binary, nor does is encompass all range of political thought (as politicians like to twist it to mean, among other things), but as this is about entrenched power vs populism, the use is valid.
Ideally, it wouldn't be partisan because we'd have multiple left-wing political parties debating issues on other axes because serving the people was just assumed, but the reality is we do have strong opposition to both the will and interests of the general population in both major US political parties and until we get an election system that weeds both the corrupt and power-hungry out and we get voters who largely stop voting against their interests the right vs left spectrum will continue to be relevant in discussion.
The best we can hope for is to try and re-establish the real definitions of political terms that politicians have twisted into meaningless buzzwords to throw around and be very judicious about how we use them.
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Maureen Lycaon it's not even that all complex societies are multicultural/multiethnic, but that multiculturalism makes nations stronger.
From multiple examples in Egypt (including even adopting the technologies of their conquerers), to the multiple ancient empires (being multicultural by definition as being empires) that allowed conquered lands to maintain much of their culture and autonomy, to China being a combination of multiple (often separate) lands, to Rome's adoption of basically any good idea they ran into (and even every god they couldn't find a rough enough equivalent of to say "oh, we just call the god of _ the name ___"), to the golden age of Islam's welcoming of other faiths and even "doubters" into their courts and intellectual circles (which saw their science boom immediately stoped when they became more religious purists), to Mongolia's often forceful conscription of the intellectuals of other cultures allowing them to create and administer one of the largest empires the world has ever known almost overnight dispite starting with essentially 0% literacy, to the enlightenment's rediscovering of Greek culture and philosophy, to Russia's program of paying a great deal for Western industrial experts to move to their country (rappidly catapulting them from irrelevant backwater to major world power), to the USA which not only is often referred to as a melting pot but our very from of government is based on ancient greek philosophy, Roman bureaucracy, English common law, and Native American peace treaties (and was the beta version and template for basically all modern government).
The majority of the problems people blame on multiculturalism are actually from ethno-cultural purists tearing appart their own societies in a hissy fit over being asked to share it. The remainder are more than made up for by the benefits of one of the most surefire ways to create national success in human history.
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