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Bristow9091 said:
I don't understand this left and right thing, what is it referring to?

Labour/Socialists/Democrats left (Communists/Anarchists absolute far left)

Tories/Reactionaries/Republicans right (Fascists/Objectivists absolute far right)



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DélioPT said:
Kantor said:
Are they actually right wing, or just another crappy "centre-right" party which is now equivalent to most countries' left-wing parties?


That`s a question that i really don`t know how to answer as i don`t really understand "wings" in their essence. But PSD have been said to be more liberal and they really aren`t overprotective as our left-wing parties. But they do care for the social side, for those who aren`t able to take care of themselves. They just act differently than your normal left wing parties.

Actually PSD in it's current format (A.K.A - With Pedro Passos Coelho leadership) is leaning more towards the liberal side, but it's still a heavily centre-right party. Many of the politics that they'll enforce are similar to what PS would enforce, just coated with different wording. But since they're making a coalition with the CDS-PP party, which is more of a true right-wing party, they'll have to make some common ground between both parties, and that will lead to more right-wind minded politics than if PSD were leading as a single majority. 

Kinda how it was during the 2002-2005 PSD/CDS-PP coalition government (Durão Barroso first and then Santana Lopes, with Paulo Portas being the minister of defense). 

The problem with our political divisions (well, one of the many) is that the current 5 political parties with parlament seat in Portugal don't fit the "normal" model for left or right wings.

PS is to the left and PSD is to the right, but both are heavily center based, with much more things in common than in separation. CDS-PP is the only right political party. CDU and BE are extreme left, with CDU being a heavily communist based party (which uses the Democrat suffix to gain votes only, they have no democrat policies whatsoever) and BE being what you would call "socialist-anarchists".
So even with CDU and BE being left wing parties, their positions are so extremed that they would never support any kind of political input that PS have (and because of that, it led to the political push to get PS out of the government, which PSD quickly took advantage of). On the contrary, PSD and CDS-PP have much more common ground between then. 

And that's Portuguese politics in a nutshell = crap.





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lestatdark said:

Actually PSD in it's current format (A.K.A - With Pedro Passos Coelho leadership) is leaning more towards the liberal side, but it's still a heavily centre-right party. Many of the politics that they'll enforce are similar to what PS would enforce, just coated with different wording. But since they're making a coalition with the CDS-PP party, which is more of a true right-wing party, they'll have to make some common ground between both parties, and that will lead to more right-wind minded politics than if PSD were leading as a single majority. 

Kinda how it was during the 2002-2005 PSD/CDS-PP coalition government (Durão Barroso first and then Santana Lopes, with Paulo Portas being the minister of defense). 

The problem with our political divisions (well, one of the many) is that the current 5 political parties with parlament seat in Portugal don't fit the "normal" model for left or right wings.

PS is to the left and PSD is to the right, but both are heavily center based, with much more things in common than in separation. CDS-PP is the only right political party. CDU and BE are extreme left, with CDU being a heavily communist based party (which uses the Democrat suffix to gain votes only, they have no democrat policies whatsoever) and BE being what you would call "socialist-anarchists".
So even with CDU and BE being left wing parties, their positions are so extremed that they would never support any kind of political input that PS have (and because of that, it led to the political push to get PS out of the government, which PSD quickly took advantage of). On the contrary, PSD and CDS-PP have much more common ground between then. 

And that's Portuguese politics in a nutshell = crap.



Actually you are kinda right, PSD`s and PS`s politics in time won`t/wouldn`t be all that different. That`s why manby have accused - especially BE and CDU - of PS going right - or is that, wrong? :D
All my life i have been hearing is how PSD is right and CDS-PP is centre-right. And i honestly, think that way, at least, this time it`s seems PSD is more open to going beyong the agreement with the troika than CDS-PP is (i.e. privatizations)
The agreement between CDS and PSD is really a given since both, at least according to people and some ideas by both, seem to share a common ground. I`m glad it was PSD who won, otherwise it would chaotic to form government and to keep it stable.

About PSD, the other during a roundtable someone said "PSD is right wing" and was refuted by a lady in PSD claiming that they were Socialist and Democratic! First time i heard someone from PSD refuse to labeled right wing - which is fair since Passos Coelho seems to be more concerned about the social state than other PSD leaders.

The problem with CDU and BE, to me at least, is that they leave in a pink world, where the state should always provide - even when it can`t, it should.



DélioPT said:
lestatdark said:
 

Actually PSD in it's current format (A.K.A - With Pedro Passos Coelho leadership) is leaning more towards the liberal side, but it's still a heavily centre-right party. Many of the politics that they'll enforce are similar to what PS would enforce, just coated with different wording. But since they're making a coalition with the CDS-PP party, which is more of a true right-wing party, they'll have to make some common ground between both parties, and that will lead to more right-wind minded politics than if PSD were leading as a single majority. 

Kinda how it was during the 2002-2005 PSD/CDS-PP coalition government (Durão Barroso first and then Santana Lopes, with Paulo Portas being the minister of defense). 

The problem with our political divisions (well, one of the many) is that the current 5 political parties with parlament seat in Portugal don't fit the "normal" model for left or right wings.

PS is to the left and PSD is to the right, but both are heavily center based, with much more things in common than in separation. CDS-PP is the only right political party. CDU and BE are extreme left, with CDU being a heavily communist based party (which uses the Democrat suffix to gain votes only, they have no democrat policies whatsoever) and BE being what you would call "socialist-anarchists".
So even with CDU and BE being left wing parties, their positions are so extremed that they would never support any kind of political input that PS have (and because of that, it led to the political push to get PS out of the government, which PSD quickly took advantage of). On the contrary, PSD and CDS-PP have much more common ground between then. 

And that's Portuguese politics in a nutshell = crap.



Actually you are kinda right, PSD`s and PS`s politics in time won`t/wouldn`t be all that different. That`s why manby have accused - especially BE and CDU - of PS going right - or is that, wrong? :D
All my life i have been hearing is how PSD is right and CDS-PP is centre-right. And i honestly, think that way, at least, this time it`s seems PSD is more open to going beyong the agreement with the troika than CDS-PP is (i.e. privatizations)
The agreement between CDS and PSD is really a given since both, at least according to people and some ideas by both, seem to share a common ground. I`m glad it was PSD who won, otherwise it would chaotic to form government and to keep it stable.

About PSD, the other during a roundtable someone said "PSD is right wing" and was refuted by a lady in PSD claiming that they were Socialist and Democratic! First time i heard someone from PSD refuse to labeled right wing - which is fair since Passos Coelho seems to be more concerned about the social state than other PSD leaders.

The problem with CDU and BE, to me at least, is that they leave in a pink world, where the state should always provide - even when it can`t, it should.

Pretty much, especially since the Troika demands will affect a lot of the socialist measures in our constitution, thus the heightned concern from Passos Coelho about the social state than the majority of PSD leaders. 

I'm also glad that PSD won, not that I support them, but because with a majority governemnt (even if it's a coalition) will allow Portugal to weather the FMI and Troika storm with less side-effects than if a minority goverment from PS would suffer. A minority PS goverment would only mean than in another 2 years we would have a new election and most of the Troika and european demands would be vetoed in Parlament, especially from the left wing aisle (CDU and BE).



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Mr Khan said:
Bristow9091 said:
I don't understand this left and right thing, what is it referring to?

Labour/Socialists/Democrats left (Communists/Anarchists absolute far left)

Tories/Reactionaries/Republicans right (Fascists/Objectivists absolute far right)

See.  i'd swap Anarchists and Fascists in that explination.

The majority of the right wing parties are "limited government power".   Like the tories and Devolution...  Making Facism a  bit of a stretch.

Left Wing = more government intervention.

 

Well if your going to Facism anywhere on that list.  Really Facism is more along the lines of "EXTREME MODERATES"

 

Anti-communist, anti-free market... I Hate everything about the right and left philosphy.


Facism = Everything goes through the government.



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Mr Khan said:
Bristow9091 said:
I don't understand this left and right thing, what is it referring to?

Labour/Socialists/Democrats left (Communists/Anarchists absolute far left)

Tories/Reactionaries/Republicans right (Fascists/Objectivists absolute far right)

Fascism is neither left nor right wing.



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Kasz216 said:
Mr Khan said:
Bristow9091 said:
I don't understand this left and right thing, what is it referring to?

Labour/Socialists/Democrats left (Communists/Anarchists absolute far left)

Tories/Reactionaries/Republicans right (Fascists/Objectivists absolute far right)

See.  i'd swap Anarchists and Fascists in that explination.

The majority of the right wing parties are "limited government power".   Like the tories and Devolution...  Making Facism a  bit of a stretch.

Left Wing = more government intervention.

 

Well if your going to Facism anywhere on that list.  Really Facism is more along the lines of "EXTREME MODERATES"

 

Anti-communist, anti-free market... I Hate everything about the right and left philosphy.


Facism = Everything goes through the government.

Even moderation is bad in too large doses.



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Zlejedi said:
By eurosocialism I understand the current push for Brussels to dictate as many things as possible that were previously left to countries, also keeping the blind eye on creativie accounting of euro member countries, and all the insane regulations on food categories/local products that come from Brussels as well as food market protectionism.
Plus the insane politicall correctness :
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1358915,00.html

I don't see any problem with a homophobic misogynist being rejected from the EU Parliament.



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