Fascists often hate being called right wing. It comes from a lack of self-awareness and general lack of emotional intelligence. If you can’t understand other people and their views, you are inclined to see your own position as the reasonable center. There are also, of course, some fascists who cynically portray themselves as the center, knowing full well what they really are. The leaders of AfD and the Reform UK are examples.
Analogously, people on the right often use the word “political” as a derogation. They hate the idea of their beliefs being political, preferring to call them “common sense”.
In a nutshell, there is a commonality across many people on the right of being unable to empathize and understand perspectives outside their own. This is why they always view their own use of government benefits as justified while others are thieves or criminals, and why anyone different from them is a threat.
At the leadership level, I agree. I do think a lot of the young men following them are simply stupid and fall for a bill of goods. The right is a coalition of the evil and intellectually feeble
as someone who thinks “left” and “right” are fake politics, my experience has led me to think about the range as the scope of your compassion. the further “left” you are, the more you care about the people as a whole. the further “right” you are, the more you care about yourself.
eventually, you get so egocentric that you cannot even fathom an opposing perspective so the “common sense” becomes your only basis for thought. the way you perceive your own stance literally shifts back towards the center as your actual position gets more extreme.
Fascists often hate being called right wing. It comes from a lack of self-awareness and general lack of emotional intelligence.
That’s part of it, but its also just the result of lacking political education.
There’s constant strugglethreads these days about the upcoming elections in the US and the people rabidly supporting the democrats think they are not fascists - Even though the democratic partys policies all fit within that ideological framework.
They are confused when people call a genocidal group of imperialists fascist because there’s another group they think is worse and because their genocidal imperialists nominally support civil liberties like gay marriage.
Fascists often hate being called right wing. It comes from a lack of self-awareness and general lack of emotional intelligence. If you can’t understand other people and their views, you are inclined to see your own position as the reasonable center. There are also, of course, some fascists who cynically portray themselves as the center, knowing full well what they really are. The leaders of AfD and the Reform UK are examples.
Analogously, people on the right often use the word “political” as a derogation. They hate the idea of their beliefs being political, preferring to call them “common sense”.
In a nutshell, there is a commonality across many people on the right of being unable to empathize and understand perspectives outside their own. This is why they always view their own use of government benefits as justified while others are thieves or criminals, and why anyone different from them is a threat.
I think the second case is much more frequent. They know what they are and they how it sounds, so they just lie.
At the leadership level, I agree. I do think a lot of the young men following them are simply stupid and fall for a bill of goods. The right is a coalition of the evil and intellectually feeble
See also: “Silent Majority”
They better stay silent alright.
Fallwell is fortunately in hell, he can rant all he wants down there.
I choose to believe in a metaphorical Hell just so he can be down there
Of which they are neither
I dunno, the fact that the silent majority voted NSC BBB and D66 says it all, centrists are not to be trifled with.
If fascists weren’t lying they wouldn’t have anything to say.
They’d yell slurs all day
So in other words, narcissists with psychopathic tendencies
as someone who thinks “left” and “right” are fake politics, my experience has led me to think about the range as the scope of your compassion. the further “left” you are, the more you care about the people as a whole. the further “right” you are, the more you care about yourself.
eventually, you get so egocentric that you cannot even fathom an opposing perspective so the “common sense” becomes your only basis for thought. the way you perceive your own stance literally shifts back towards the center as your actual position gets more extreme.
source: was raised by one
That’s part of it, but its also just the result of lacking political education.
There’s constant strugglethreads these days about the upcoming elections in the US and the people rabidly supporting the democrats think they are not fascists - Even though the democratic partys policies all fit within that ideological framework.
They are confused when people call a genocidal group of imperialists fascist because there’s another group they think is worse and because their genocidal imperialists nominally support civil liberties like gay marriage.