Message from @RyeNorth
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The problem, IMO, is the left/right divide to begin with.
Which is also why I find left and right arbitrary
It's too coarse to be useful.
It's so vague
It kind of is.
It is. And it's not even consistent with time.
I know
But even so, Hitler was considered an authoritarian centrist at best.
not 'Far Right'
He also hates the foundational values of America
Incl free speech
I guess that's why he's "alt" right
The Alt is Latin for "Not Really" :^)
He adopted the racial obsession of the far right
"It's not orange, it's alt-red..."
And socialism from the far left
Is the right specifically racially obsessed?
Racial obsession isn't only a far right thing.
And I believe he wants an arostocracy?
With a king?
He talks and dresses like a damned aristocrat.
He fancies himself a nobleman.
And that's far right as well
Like that bald hyper capitalist monarchist polish dude
With a bowtie
I don't think the left right divide is entirely useless, its just that america has a different version,
What utility does it have that specific ideological labels don't have and execute better?
Personally, I see it as -
Communism/Marxism far left.
Monarchism/Theocracy far right
That's a false dichotomy though
And that's the thing, either you're sandwiching multiple often conflicting and contradictory ideas into one "side"
Or you're creating a false dichotomy
And you're allowing nutjobs to adopt generic labels instead of having them say what they really think
It helps in categorizing people. Especially in a two party state
Europ isn't that way
See: leftism descending into commie fuckery
But
Larger countries like India or America are
But neither system is based around two ideologies is the thing