Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Ben Jealous Talks Progressive Policy: "We’re Running Towards The People"" video.

  1. The fact that people think "right wing" means in favor of small government and individual freedom is proof of that. Right vs Left started as describing royalists vs those favoring representative government, respectively, and since has broadened to, by extension, mean those favoring entrenched power vs populism. One can't be "establishment left" because that's a contradiction of terms. (Btw, the "sjws" that are actually misandrists and want to reverse the oppression on cis-het-white men are, by definition an alternative right wing) Extreme right=totalitarians Far right=facists/royalists/etc Moderate right=oligarchs/aristocrats/etc Moderate left=representative democracy Far left=direct democracy Extreme left=anarchy
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  2. Most self-described "conservatives" these days are either neo-cons (which is just a more polite way of saying "proto-facists" or worse) or liberals who have been scared away from using the term out of decades of propaganda using it as a smear and the democratic party caving to it rather than doing something like this: https://youtu.be/zTFp7WG9J-E I am a big advocate of going to the dictionary and finding definitions that are consistent across both dictionaries and contexts (and when that fails, going to the historic origins of their use). This gets you the definition of left and right I already mentioned, and: Conservative: 1-Traditionalist/favoring the status-quo 2-Cautious Liberal: 1-Open to change, new ideas, and new ways of doing things 2-in favor of freedom (especially personal) 3-generous and given the rather recent movements' behaviors: Neo-conservative: attempting to return to an idealized version of the past that never actually existed (students of history will read that as "proto-facist at best") Neo-liberal: Neo-conservative under a thin veil of social progressivism While normally, language's meaning is determined by use, politicians must never be allowed to change the definitions of political terms (or any terms really) or, as you mention, they will quickly strip all meaning from the words so the public ends up talking past each other and they end up with all the power. Basic divide and conquer stuff, really...so if there's ever a time to be pedantic, it's about politics.
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  3. Dat Fishe Boi that's conservativism, neo-conservativism, and liberalism (respectively) That said, the conservative-liberal axis and the right-left political axis are nearly parallel in the current context, hence often being used interchangeably.
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