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Understand "left" as a political marketing strategy rather than a political ideology, and referring to the Democrats as left wing will make sense to you again.
by sbmassey 9y ago
Understand "left" as a political marketing strategy rather than a political ideology, and referring to the Democrats as left wing will make sense to you again.
- craftyguy 9y agoWow, I guess both parties do have something in common afterall: they're both political marketing machines and less about political idealogy.
- owebmaster 9y agoThis is very complicated. In my country we do have a progressive/popular left wing and a liberal/conservative right wing, but people following the discussion in the US thinks the liberal right are left wing. It makes our political discussion go very low.
- rorykoehler 9y agoWell that's precisely it. The political spectrum is quite well defined. One doesn't become left in the absence of an actual left. It's not a wholly relative measurement. Blue doesn't become green in the absence of green.
- sbmassey 9y agoI don't think the political spectrum is in any way well defined - you can come up with left- or right-sounding justifications for pretty much any specific policy you care to, and if you look back across the decades or to different countries, you can make left or right mean anything you want. The only consistency is that the left pretends to care about the poor, while the right pretends to be competent.