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[–] 3 points 11 months ago

Are you saying the US is left wing? Because they have a lot of socialist policies.

Are you saying the US army is left wing? Because they have a complete socialist structure.

The meaning of left and right wing were lost long ago.

Right: Supporters of the old order, the monarchy, and aristocracy.

Left: Supporters of the revolution, republicanism, and secularism, who wanted to change the existing system.

From the original definition the whole world is pretty much left unless they are ruled by a aristocracy or a monarch.

Of course you could also argue most Democracies are in name only and the wealthy still call all the shots. So that would mean the whole world is really right.

I think this highlights how useless these words have become even without the extreme polarization they have in places like the US.

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