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> They are much different. When all you know are those two options, then yeah, they look like two very different options. But once you explored the other ideo
by diggan 2y ago
> They are much different.
When all you know are those two options, then yeah, they look like two very different options.
But once you explored the other ideologies and political ideas out there in the rest of the world, you'll see they both end up being pretty much "center-but-slightly-right", one is slightly more conservative than the other, but otherwise they're pretty much the same poison.
- galangalalgol 2y agoAlso it isn't one axis reality, so projecting all those onto a line leads to skewed comparisons. That said, what parties elsewhere in the world make the modern GOP look center-right? Also, in countries with even larger gaps in ideology between parties, how do they avoid the civil unrest the US is seeing?
- diggan 2y ago> what parties elsewhere in the world make the modern GOP look center-right? Loads of examples; Vox (Spain), AfD (Germany) and whatever National Front (France) is called nowadays, all take harder stances and are pretty honest about their want for centralization of authority (for example), for better or worse. Golden Dawn (Greece) is probably a even stronger ultra-nationalist example, but they basically have no support after getting banned. Although I will say that is seems almost futile to compare left/right between countries, we all have somewhat different understandings of it... > how do they avoid the civil unrest the US is seeing What civil unrest? I'd say things seem surprisingly calm and the population almost pacified. We're starting to see some smaller embers of something starting, but compared to how things could be considering the circumstances, it seems pretty idle.