Mnementh said:
Politics are far more complex than be easily captured in the right-left binary. As the right-left separation was originally about economic and social security policies, I usually use the terms in that regard. This still works but collides with younger people that don't associate working class at all with left wing politics but make it a cultural issue and see the "left" as the more privileged well educated academic middle class people. I would consider that liberal/progressive, not left in the original sense. But even then they have confusing stances, I would consider womens liberation one classic liberal topic, which would be critical of many muslim communities that use authoritarian power over women. But I guess I could call it very american valuing religious freedom higher than other liberties, as the US was founded by religious groups fleeing europe to live their religion, so maybe that politics is not as much liberal as it is american. |
Yep, the right-left distinction is an extrem simplification.
