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This, basically. America as a whole is pretty far right. When you're left of that, it's not very left at all.
by saraid216 14y ago
This, basically. America as a whole is pretty far right. When you're left of that, it's not very left at all.
- tptacek 14y agoOn a global scale, these "left" / "right" labels lose a lot of their meaning and are more a sign of a poorly framed discussion than a useful shorthand. Reconcile to "right" and "left" say, at-will employment, or a right to bear arms, or mandatory health insurance, or laws prohibiting Nazi sympathism, or vigorous loser-pays libel laws, or tax-free churches, or the right to keep and bear arms... the list goes on and on. The US is statist is some ways that Europe isn't, and libertarian in others. At the end of the day, these things all boil down to differing priorities and to different levels of policy sophistication.