| Johnw1104 said: Hmm why do people call Le Pen "far right" and Macron "centrist" if the political compass looks like that? I've noticed a trend that people conflate "authoritarian" with "right wing", which is obviously inaccurate as left wings can be authoritarian and right can be libertarian. Is that what's at play here? |
Politcs seems to flip every now and then a bit like the magnectic poles.
Take the UK. Left-wing Labour has been, at least since the 80s, as the main party of the blue collar working class. But then there was the Brexit vote. In the run up to which, huge numbers of voters in the aforementioned category switch to the right-wing UKIP, and now post-referendum are lookling likely to vote for the Tories (also right-wing) as Brexit gets underway, with Labour having a massive slump.
