And that may be linked to age - leftists tend to be younger

People tend to shift right over time as they gain wisdom and their priorities/responsibilities change

what does right even mean

is it right to be wrong or is it wrong to be right

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I've toyed with the idea that "right wing" as an idea technically doesn't exist and only exists as an antonym to "leftist"

Alienated, for the purposes of this conversation we can divide the population into "leftists", "the right", and "centrists/normies"

It's impoosibly broad as the leftists use it, Harazuy

true centrism has never been conceived

centrism isn't a position, is why

pragmatism is

pragmatism isn't a synonym for centrist

because centrist has no single agreed upon definition

correct

technically neither does left or right.

centrist is only defined by not having extreme views

yet, you can identify a leftist based on their position on specific ideas

same with a right winger

what happens when you're me and you're basicly an even split of extreme left and extreme right views.

however

not so easy with the right

you can also confuse them, provided you desire a specific result

there are significant areas of variability

specifically in the globalism vs nationalism

there are always variabilities

not much variability in bona-fide leftists

The terms “left wing” and “left wing” have, since their inception, constantly changed in meaning.
However, for the early part of the 20th century, “left wing” meant more government control of the economy, and “right wing” meant more free market economy.
Then, when the 60’s hit, social issues got thrown into the mix. Since then politics have become more and more polarized between “the left” and “the right” to the ridiculous butt-fucking-Brady-bunch extent that it is now.

A centrist is someone who is “right wing” on some issues and “left wing” on others.

possible, scale_e

@Eccles then why so many leftist theorists and so many theorists calling themselves after the theorists

There aren't that many, Alienated, they're just noisy and have the levers of power

heh

they're not theorists they're hypothesizers at best

Up until the last few years I’d described myself as center-left.
Now that the left has moved so far into fucking crazy town, I describe myself as simply a centrist.

it's kinda cool to see Duckduckgo isn't dead

still small though

I'd like duckduckgo more if it acctualy functioned correctly.

it works well for me

@Scale_e i still can't describe myself because i just don't fucking care enough considering the puppet behavior of political activists and their supporters

locally, nationally, internationally

I went looking for a wiki and got a slew of scummy games journos instead.