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Doesn't sound right wing to me. It sounds libertarian, but that doesn't mean they practice what they preach.
by dexterdog 11y ago
Doesn't sound right wing to me. It sounds libertarian, but that doesn't mean they practice what they preach.
- smadge 11y agoFree market libertarianism is right wing.
- tn13 11y agoRight wing also refers to "weed should be banned", "abortions are illegal" type religious lunatics as well. Libertarians often do not like to be called right wing because they are not.
- freditup 11y agoThere are reasonable cases to be made for both keeping weed illegal and banning abortions. Labeling people as lunatics because you disagree with them is a very dangerous road to go down.
- tn13 11y agoMight be, but there is nothing wrong in labeling people I dont like as lunatics.
- smadge 11y agoI'm sorry that capitalist libertarians don't like being associated with social conservatives. They should have thought of that before entering a political alliance with them in the 80s. edit: typo
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- smt88 11y ago"Libertarianism" is often a straw-man ideological justification for right-wing policy.
- gotchange 11y agoThe obsession with job creation and emphasis on quantity not quality is definitely a RW core belief and policy goal.
- crazy1van 11y agoWhat do you mean by quantity, not quality in terms of jobs? Someone going from unemployed to employed seems to both be a quantity improvement (one more job) and a quality improvement ($0 in wages vs >$0 in wages).
- gotchange 11y agoQuantity means jobs, any jobs ... shitty jobs, no minimum wage peanut for pay jobs, that sort of thing jobs ... Where quality cares more about aspects like the employee welfare in terms of wages, overtime, paid vacations, paid paternity leaves ...etc etc