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it's kinda interesting watching the ping pong match above centered on which ideological grid is going to determine where right and left are.
even the most basic categories are subject to disagreement.
the dunedan seems to think that "the left" and the state are the same thing. from my viewpoint, accepting that would also require that up be made down, red be made grey, apples be made squirrels that world be made a cube.
i see a single-party system dominated by two variants of conservatism. there is some motion within each of these two variants: at the moment, a moderate is in power. i see the right has having mostly imploded ideologically and a scattering, one manifestation of which is the rebranded militia movement. one of the political features of this rebranded militia movement is the articulation of a map of the political world that erases any coherent meaning for left/right distinctions, which enables them to position themselves as "patriots" or "3 percenters" or "oath keepers" just regular guys doing regular things and not a paranoiac populist crypto-fascist movement armed to the teeth and waiting for a provocation to come down on them from that Great Devil the state.
but i expect that for dunedan (just because you posted above) to accept that would also require that up be made down, red be made grey, apples be made squirrels that world be made a cube.
round and round.
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