(January 28, 2016 at 2:42 am)CapnAwesome Wrote:(January 27, 2016 at 11:53 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I guess "far left" is different in the US as it would be in Europe. I don't mean communist.
People generally have little perspective on what far left or far right means. While Europe's far left is far far far to the left of anything in the US, I'd say their far-right proto-facist parties are pretty far to the right of what we have in the States as well.
Basically, Europe's spectrum is bigger/longer on both sides due to historical circumstances. America has had the same constitution since it was first implemented: I cannot think of a single European country that has been living on the same constitution forever. And we've been trough monarchy, etc. It's different. Typically, right-left has more to do with how you view hierarchies than with government intervention. From my experience, fascists are very supportive of gov-intervention and they qualify as far-right.
America has a different spectrum, still - I wouldn't qualify someone who is in favor of a mixed economy as far-left, ever..
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