Silence8 -> RE: How dare the Right Wing Fear Mongers Use "Regime"!!! (4/7/2010 10:07:46 PM)
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ORIGINAL: luckydawg Libertarians are further right than mainstream Republicans. Conservative, does NOT equal Republican. Liberal does not equall Democrat. To me, further right than republicans would be fascists, which are the polar opposite of libertarians. The problem with the right/left dichotomy is that on the left, you have both communists and anarchists - one believes in the state taking care of all human needs and preventing people from making mistakes, the other believes that people should evolve past the point of needing a government to care for them or tell them what to do. Anarchists don't believe it's okay to rob rape and steal, they feel that it should be human nobility that prevents these things, not a law. While 'anarchy' has become synonymous with 'chaos' the root of the word is an (no) archon (rulers) and many anarchists take this to mean we don't need a law to tell us right from wrong, we should fucking know it ourselves. On the "right" you have fiscal conservatives, neo-cons, constitutionalists, and the religious right, and according to you, libertarians. How to reconcile the religious right (gay marriage should be banned because it is a sin) with libertarians (government has no right to tell us who to marry) is beyond me. So to me, "left" and "right" make sense in a two-party context but as a fundamental system of analysis, it really breaks down. Some people use a 2 dimensional system (like a square instead of a line), adding the distinction 'social - economic'. But, yeah, there's somehow that the whole system misses. 'The border guards fight unconvincingly...'
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