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Leftism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

A poster tells me "Dems are conservstive [sic], as in what the term originally meant, not right wing." Does that make sense?

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A poster tells me "Dems are conservstive [sic], as in what the term originally meant, not right wing." Does that make sense?

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Leftism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

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I asked them to clarify what Dems were conserving.

Wikipedia: Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable…

They didn’t confirm that Dems are conserving ‘certain social orders and hierarchies’. Did they not confirm that because they’d immediately show themselves to be wrong? Or am I just so clueless about what right wing politics is that I am not worth educating?

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Capitalism. And if someone is an anarchist, like me, the state. Those are the two biggest things. And capitalism is really the big kicker.

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