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Codeblue's avatar

While i think you start to get to the heart of some real political issues i think id caution some things,

the ideals of Religious freedom, Freedom of speech and Self defense aren't right wing ideologies but the way theyve currently been weaponized by the right wing has placed them in opposition to the "Left". For example the Black Panther party were more then willing to arm themselves in order to protect their community from the police and were only stop from doing so after Ronald Regan as governor changed the firearm laws in CA because they knew it restricted the ability of the police to harass the black communities the Panthers lived in. Similarly in the example of Freedom of Speech I question what Freedom of Speech the Right has backed, is it freedom of speech for the government to arrest Environmental Activists like they did back in the Bush era, Is it religious freedom to force the 10 commandments or the bible into schools, I think a lot of the things you listed as Right wing Pillars are actually Liberal in nature theyve just been lost under the weight of the money thats flooded the political system and either been forgotten or twisted to serve the Oligarchy

Additionally i think that Deregulation of the Government generally only servers the Oligarchs that were fighting against, I think theres always room for reform and improvements but the types of Deregulation i see being called for from the right is to make it harder to unionize, easier for oligarchs to poison us and easier for them to extract everything from us.

TO sum up my point, i think the focus on power is correct and i do think that we need to be more willing to stand side by side with workers and community members of all types, but even then its still worth remembering that the Right wing categorically exists to prevent making real progress against the Oligarchs and itll be hard to fight them if we still choose to harbor an ideology thats designed and propagated by them.

Ill also leave this article here as i think it may speak to some of the things you attributed to the Right that actually have more roots in the left https://jacobin.com/2025/02/liberal-socialism-mcmanus-review-mill

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Codeblue's avatar

Circling back to this after re-watching the video and i wanted to add, I think the general ideology you happen to be getting at is usually called Populism the issue how ever is that even Populism has a left and right wing, the right wing is the one that were seeing at play right now, the left is the one that we saw originate in this country under Teddy Roosevelt and came to full force under FDR. Theyre both in statement against the Elite however Right wing populism targets elites based on Social stances like "Left wing" Bill gates or against companies that state to have more progressive values all while enacting policies or using rhetoric that does divides us and prevents us from organizing, while Left wing populism views the entire scope of oligarchs as the elite, and uses organizing to challenge the elite through community organizing, unionizing and legislation. Left wing populism as mentioned above through actions like the Pullman car strike is why things like Child labor was outlawed or the minimum wage was established.

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Scott Carney's avatar

It's 4 quadrants, and it's still insufficient to describe the actual way people think about politics. It's just better than the one that exists now.

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