This sounds good on paper, but the specifics don’t really hold up. The right wing in the US in 2023 is pretty thoroughly vile. I’m not aware of any issues offhand where they have the right idea. They’re certainly wrong on a lot of things.
LGBT rights
Women’s rights
Minority rights
Climate Change
Voting rights
Freedom of expression (they’re trying to ban books, drag shows, and use the government to address their whole “people downvote right wing votes” problem)
Should government provide any services
Should the government exist at all
Should we have democracy
Slightly more contentiously you have
Abortion rights
Gun control. (Their stance seems to be ‘Do nothing’ or maybe ‘Put more guns into the mix’. Neither of which seems to be helping. Pair with the whole “refuse to study the problem” thing and it’s a bad take, imo)
Policing. Their stance seems to largely be “leave it as-is” but it has numerous problems. Solutions range from reform (if you’re feeling “centrist”) to more radical approaches.
Their tax policies are stupid. I don’t have the energy to go into detail but
they tend to create more debt by cutting taxes on the wealthy, without the general populace getting anything for it
- Debt to build infrastructure, for example, at least gets you infrastructure.
also wars. A generation of war in the middle east for dubious reasons
they don’t want to fund the IRS to enforce current laws, even though that’s a net profit for the government
the wealthy have enough money. giving them tax cuts is stupid and ineffective.
And more specific things like
Net neutrality
Should your ISP be required to have clear billing
I can’t speak to the right wing outside the us in any detail, but Brexit was a tremendous self-pwn in the UK.
This is just off the top of my head.
Also remember that time they poisoned a generation of children in Flint, Michigan, and nothing much came of it? If we had a left wing like we have a right wing, people would have hanged for that. I mean, it’s not too late to hang people for that, I guess, but it seems unlikely.
There isn’t really a radical left in the US. There might be a handful of people who say somewhat left-wing stuff like “Nationalize internet infrastructure” (I’m for it), but they don’t have any political power to speak of
This sounds good on paper, but the specifics don’t really hold up. The right wing in the US in 2023 is pretty thoroughly vile. I’m not aware of any issues offhand where they have the right idea. They’re certainly wrong on a lot of things.
Slightly more contentiously you have
And more specific things like
I can’t speak to the right wing outside the us in any detail, but Brexit was a tremendous self-pwn in the UK.
This is just off the top of my head.
Also remember that time they poisoned a generation of children in Flint, Michigan, and nothing much came of it? If we had a left wing like we have a right wing, people would have hanged for that. I mean, it’s not too late to hang people for that, I guess, but it seems unlikely.
There isn’t really a radical left in the US. There might be a handful of people who say somewhat left-wing stuff like “Nationalize internet infrastructure” (I’m for it), but they don’t have any political power to speak of