Again, I already explained to you that I believe "the right" is fundamentally ANTI-economic liberty, so obviously this buzzword claim is not inherent or objective on its own.
And I offered a different perspective. Is that not allowed...?
A big problem is that your interpretation of economic liberty doesn't even apply to all right-wing ideologies. If this is genuinely how you define economic liberty, then your initial claim that "right wing people support economic liberty" already excludes every right-wing ideology that isn't YOUR hyper-specific branch of Anarcho-Capitalism.
I'm not an Anarcho-Capitalist, I still believe in the necessity of a minarchy, minimal government, or night watchman state to protect life, liberty, and property by enforcing the Higher Law and punishing those who encroach upon these God-given rights. I am not an anarchist in any form, merely a libertarian conservative who wants to limit the scope of government to its one legitimate function – securing preexisting rights to life, liberty, and property. The difference is that I will never tolerate it departing from that function.
If you have to specify "in general" or "some rightists", then you've already recognized that those things are not definitive classifiers. If only some, or even most, ideologies subscribe to that metric, then it isn't a good metric for something that is supposed to be binary like "left vs right". People across the board can believe in varying levels of either of these, and for varying reasons. Even models as basic as the political compass understand this.
Did I ever say that right and left was a clear-cut issue of liberty vs authoritarianism? No, I didn't. All I said was that Hitler's brand of National Socialism agreed more with the views that, in general, left wing ideologies hold than that, in general, right wing ideologies hold. I am not accusing you of agreeing with Adolf Hitler, which seems to be what you think, rather I have sai… Прочетете още
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