Honest answer the right doesn’t seem to have any good positions now. They are against fighting climate change, against tolerance, anti-science, and they speak of fiscal responsibility but instead of tax and spend they just spend. They are way too much into mindless defiance and dirty politics. And they are the most hypocritical “do as I say, not as I do” party IMO.
Thanks, you are civilized, different from the others, also, yeah, I know that the US right wing is batshit insane, but yeah, I don’t agree in capitalism = bad, I like the way it works, but we should actually focus on decreasing inequality and give opportunity to everyone
I didn’t mention capitalism but meant to, I think capitalism itself is great but like so many other things it needs limits. Huge mega corporations have a lot of disadvantages for the environment, competitors, customer service, and consumer choice.
The anti-capitalism sentiment is interesting. While the issues with it are obvious to everyone, the solution is not. Atleast not to me. If you just end capitalism, it’s going to be miserable for everyone. You need to replace it with something better. People however don’t seem to think it this far, or if they do, then for some reason they don’t want to discuss that, and get angry for even asking. Just having a vague idea is not good enough. This isn’t the kind of stuff you figure out on the go.
Even now, I’ll probably just get downvoted and labeled a right wing capitalist, because that’s easier than answering the actual question.
It’s strange to me that Capitalism, as described by Adam Smith (but labelled such by Marx), is supposed to serve the common good, and included gov’t intervention in markets. I’m OK with that idea. I lean way more left of that, but if Capitalists here and elsewhere didn’t bend over to defend gross wealth inequality, cry about helping society as a whole, and actually studied differences in economic theories and practice I wouldn’t think most of them are assholes.
older, wealthy, not so terminally online people are overrepresented amongst the political right. young people, who are typically less wealthy, and who identify more with things that have only recently become more socially acceptable, such as alternate sexuality or gender, are typically less served by the political right, and since they have a much larger online presence, the views they hold are much more accepted and voiced in most online spaces.
The Internet has been dominated by ND, queer and trans folk since as far as I can remember; and the right tends to want us to not exist. So… Fuck them. 🖕🖕
I stand with the side that doesn’t think I’m an abomination because I love men as well as women.
We just witnessed the hottest summer on record. This corroborates what scientists have said for decades, that emissions are bringing about ecological collapse. For those of us who possess a moral compass, this means we need people in leadership who are serious about saving the planet.
What are YOU doing to help, with your one vote?
If you vote right-wing, the simplest explanation is that you’re not forward-thinking enough to grasp the impending danger.
Do better, please. There are plenty of information sources out there.
Look if it was true capitalism what these billionaires talk about , I will support it. But these corporations buy their competition and do unethical moves to get ahead and create a monopoly so they can charge you more. That its not the spirit of competition and free market. Me as a consumer look for my benefit and my benefit is when companies innovate , improve and work to have a great customer service so they consumer is better because of the free market and competition.
I imagine stuff like monopolies is what a true free market economy would look like, so I wouldn’t say things like that are a sign of illegitimate capitalism. However, that is not the case almost anywhere. True capitalism doesn’t really exist because it’s more or less regulated everywhere, and it’s usually where these regulations fail, where we also see the biggest issues with it. That’s why I’m opposed to people advocating for ending capitalism. In my view that is too radical and narrow minded and will lead to a ton of unpleasant side effects that aren’t even that hard to predict. More and better regulation is the more optimal solution in my view.
As it turns out Secular Egalitarian Representative Democracy itself has a Liberal bias, I mean it's written right there in all the Constitutions across all the countries who practice it, who woulda thunk it, right?
Because there are far more unemployed, basement dwelling neckbeards with enough time to whine on social media that everything wrong with the world is because of the Right.
Because a lot of tech culture is based upon the idea of sharing things with people, of enabling others, of bringing down barriers, of helping other people reach their potential. This is why open source communities are so prevalent, and even commercial tech offerings are sold to us with these ideals.
And all that is antithetical to many right wing policies, which are often about creating barriers and unneccessary limitations. Like DeSantis's Don't Say Gay laws. Or the defunding of community services like educational institutes. Or placing barriers on voting.
To try to give you a genuine answer, perhaps because 1) Lemmy is a left leaning environment generally, 2) if you're American, because the majority of the western and 1st world countries are dramatically more left leaning than the US (I live in Canada, and your democrats are more right wing than our main right wing political party)
Well, I don’t think they’re lying per se. But when you ask a group of people “why is it you all believe this” of course they’re going to respond “because we are right.” I’m more asking OP why he would even post this guestion here than criticizing the people responding, he’s not going to get any semblance of a helpful answer.
Add comment