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The worst thing about the right wing is that it doesn't exist in a meaningful capacity
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It is different to some extent in America since you still have fanatically loyal camps of Republicans and other conservative types who haven't made or seen any appreciable progress since Donald Trump, and I'm hesitant to count him as a success. But you do still have people going to rallies, voting, and in general participating in a system that works against them with no appreciable results. Even that holding pattern the UK has apparently achieved basically doesn't exist in the US.In the UK, the only reason about 75% of Conservative voters vote Conservative is to keep Labour out of office. Boris and his government suck, but Labour's manifesto gets more extreme and deranged every year so anyone with half a brain votes Tory because it's literally the only rational option. British politics is in a holding pattern that gives the Tories a mandate to turn the country into an ever more authoritarian hell hole and basically do whatever they want. The people in this country have basically no say in how they are governed and are pushed around like supplicants and serfs by a thousand over-mighty and unaccountable government agencies that are run entirely for their own benefit. All the meanwhile BoJo drones on about liberty as the country becomes a Police State.
This is where I'd normally say the right seems to do something different but there are few good options. We don't have guns, the Police and Army are fanatically loyal due to the power the government gives them, people who want a different system are locked out of democratic politics by the monolithic party system and by the media (part of the same system) who churn out propaganda praising this lunacy.
I think fewer people realize this than most people might think. The Right in the US in particular is in deep denial about things and still seems to be convinced that they'll just retake the government in another 8 years.At the moment my choices are to prep for when the system collapses under its own weight, or just to emigrate.
I might've prematurely disagreed with this, but can you elaborate?Aside from ACB, none of the women on that side are positive representations of modern feminism.
Someone above posted a soyjack meme of a trump supporter swallowing black cock-as vulgar as that image was, it does have a great deal of truth to it.
The reality that progressives are more the warmongers, and the reactionary zealots for Family, Faith, and Fatherland are more the pacifist faction geopolitically (at least in isolationism) today with Trump refusing Syria and elsewhere to be brought in while Newscasters, married into the democratic party, orgasmed at cruise missiles hitting targets in the desert.the rest are just as warmongering as the left
Corporate America halts donations to Republicans who voted to overturn the electionThe fact that they are foot soldiers for capital despite claiming not to be.
(Yes, I know the demonrats are too, if slightly less so. I'm not letting them off the hook either).
The worst thing about the left is that they act disgusting.The worst thing about the right wing is that it doesn't exist in a meaningful capacity
"Cohesive center-right parties have facilitated political stability and compromises, while their disintegration has empowered radical challengers. After presenting an overview of right-wing politics in Western democracies and weighing different definitions of the electoral right, we discuss two factors that shape variations in center-right cohesion: organizational robustness of center-right partisan institutions and the (un)bundling of conservative mass attitudes on different policy dimensions. Last, we argue that a full account of the rise of the radical right cannot focus solely on the strategies of the center-left but must incorporate also the choices, opportunities, and constraints of center-right parties."They aren't the controlled opposition, they are the open opposition, to half of their own followers.
Yeah this is really annoying. Government = communism is just retarded and is part of what makes the right so ineffectual. Using the government to reward people on your 'team' and punish your enemies is as old as the hills, and a fundamental element of politics, particularly urban politics. Another consequence of this kind of thinking is that there are pretty much no large cities controlled by Republicans. They're all bastions of Democrat machine politics, which is how the Dems get away with most of the ridiculous shit that they pull (fortifying elections, letting BLM/Antifa run rampant, COVID overreach). So what does the right do? Do they try to create their own political machine? Do they do anything effectual, at all? No, they sit on the sidelines and crow about how the Democrat-run cities are all corrupt and dysfunctional. In their fantasy land a Republican run city would be perfect, with a finely-tuned laissez faire economic machine creating endless prosperity, low crime, no corruption, blah blah blah. They never actually sully their hands with the business of governing, they'd rather live in a fantasy world and snipe at the party that they've yielded the arena to.That everything they don't like is communist.