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You ever notice how, if you're on the right, there’s only one name for you, you're "Conservative / Republican / Right-wing" used interchangeably and that's all there is to it.

But, if you're on the left, there are countless factions and sub-factions you can belong to. You can be liberal, leftist, anarchist, progressive, then all the little subsets of each.

I guess the good thing about lacking nuance is it's a lot easier to forge solidarity.

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  • I mean yeah, it makes perfect sense. Broadly speaking, the core difference between the right and the left is that the right supports rigid vertical hierarchies and the left supports distributed democratic decision making. It's the difference between "toe the line" and "speak your mind".

    It's way easier to forge solidarity when your entire ideology is based on conforming. That's also why the right tends to be so much more politically successful; they'll organize behind a cause before the left can even decide how they're going to choose a cause to organize behind, and even then it's like herding cats.

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