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As someone who could easily be described as "right-wing" in the USA, I'm curious how Germany would describe someone who is for limited-government, individual li
by cchurch 15y ago
As someone who could easily be described as "right-wing" in the USA, I'm curious how Germany would describe someone who is for limited-government, individual liberties, and reduced entitlement spending?
Or, also in the scope of "American right-wing," how would Germany describe someone who injects Christian morality into their politics?
- eru 15y ago> As someone who could easily be described as "right-wing" in the USA, I'm curious how Germany would describe someone who is for limited-government, individual liberties, and reduced entitlement spending? Liberal. > Or, also in the scope of "American right-wing," how would Germany describe someone who injects Christian morality into their politics? Religious nut. Germans don't mix politics and religion. (Quiet piety is OK, but don't talk about it in front of voters.)
- hvs 15y agoAs to your second point, people like me can only dream of a day when Americans didn't mix politics with faux-religiosity. (I refuse to call the way that many Americans use religion in such a public manner as having anything to do with true piety or spirtuality).
- erikb 15y agoWhat you describe is like the governing party in Germany at the moment. The 2 big parties in Germany are a little like the 2 US parties, although we have more parties which are just not that powerful. But both big parties are considered as central, one a little leaning to the left, one a little leaning to the right. The conservative/christian party is the more right-sided one, but nobody would call them right-wing.
- eru 15y agoThe CDU is for limited government? And individual liberties took quite a beating. (The greens and FDP seem somewhat more in favour of indidivual liberties.)
- sixothree 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism