What am I? Cunt, Dick, Loony or Insufferable?

[Dystopia]

True story. People should educate themselves better. Most americans probably don't know that socialism and capitalism are two necessary realities of a mixed economy system, you can have more one than the other but you can't live without both. What countries are there without a mixed system? China, North Korea, Cuba (not so much now), etc. Most Americans don't realize their system too is mixed, it has government owned property and services even if it is a lot less than in europe

Here even the nationalists (what we call ultra conservative and 'fascists' as a form of insult) support a national healthcare system. In america I guess an UHS would be labeled as 'commie shit'.

I have to say amen to that.

Edumacation is the key, not just for the yanks but for people over here (UK/Europe as well).

I'm a politics PhD student and lecturer in political science and international relations and the ignorance that I'm often confronted with on the basic ideas inherent within political spectrums often takes me back. 'The left is synonymous with Marx and Hegel! The right is synonymous with Hitler!'

Simplistic perhaps but it emphasises a point that people become tribal about politics to the point where reason and consideration is thrown out, and reason is arguably the most important facet of political discourse, doubly so when one considers that politics is society and is people.

Where I live, because of fascism you are called a fascist if you are right wing, even if you are merely a moderate center right. I consider myself center right and some people consider me either a fascist, a close minded or someone who wants an ancién regime society with an archaic hierarchy. I hate this.

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The terminology does differ between Europe and the US.

In Europe, apparently, "libertarian" does not mean a greedy corporate cocksucker who steals everything that isn't nailed down in the name of "freedom."

Libertarianism is not very well known in europe, in some countries there is not even a libertarian party. It also depends if it is socialist left wing or right wing capitalism laissez faire libertarianism