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[Viper1]

fordy said:

Viper1 said:
HappySqurriel, it's more like religious, Neo-Con right wing. Than basic right wing.

I have to admit that the American right-wing have done a brilliant job in instilling particular myths into the community, that Liberal is a bad word, that Liberal = socialist, that right-wing means no government and left-wing means total government. In fact, the whole right/wing policy came from France I believe, where the left side of the town hall was for the revolutionaries (less government), and the right side were for the monarchists (more government).

I wouldn't call it so much a matter of myths vs facts but rather differnt versions of the concepts.   Your above definitions would be classical.   Those seen in America today could be more defined as modern  American left and right wing.

The definitions in America itself have changed quite greatly over the past 100 years.

I will grant that it is cause for much confusion but it's far easier to alter the basic principles in an already established party and change the political idoelogy over time  than to create a whole new party or openly change the ideology by name.

And for the record, the left has done an equally good job of making conservative or right wing a bad word.