The title reads like a very polite own.
Otherwise, depends on your circumstances. Do your nationally syndicated news media propagate right-wing or left-wing ideology writ large? Do your nation's school systems instill senses of nationalism and xenophobia into its youth? Does your country's leadership more fervently and regularly repress one side or the other?
It is easier to be a fascist in a fascist state. It is easier to be a liberal in a liberal one, and a socialist in a socialist one. Half the battle has already been won at that point. There is comfort to belief in the system one lives under, a comfort that has the potential to breed ignorance or intellectual laziness.
My own experience shows that most people are more -- I hate to use the word, naturally inclined towards sympathizing with a left-wing perspective when the correct words are used.
My own experience shows that most people are more -- I hate to use the word, naturally inclined towards sympathizing with a left-wing perspective when the correct words are used.
"Do you care about other people and want them to be happier?" -left-wing appeal.
"Do you hate those (slurs) that are at fault for everything and those (slurs) that tell you what to do?" -right-wing appeal.
Don't you know it's simply human nature to be a selfish piece of shit? Fucking tankies.
Yes. "common sense" is the repetition of dominant ideology. They can bang on "common sense" and destroy things. We have to deconstruct common sense so. That we can build the future.
Yes.
All that's required to be ideologically right wing is one of its many sometimes contradictory hooks. Do you hate (slurs) and blame them for your personal frustrations? You're in. Are you a greedy piece of shit and want the planet to burn down a little faster so you can get another yacht? You're in. Do you believe that the creator of the universe is your personal buddy and wingman and wants you to persecute some (slurs) and make a quick buck burning the planet down a little faster? You're totally in.
I think it's probably just as easy to be a vaushite as it is to be a fan of Joe Rogan, if you accept that kind of passive consumption as political orientation.
I don't really believe a unified "left wing" exists.
It's harder to be a well-read, committed, and active Marxist-leninist than it is to be someone who simply wants to roll back the status quo to their benefit, sure.
There are plenty of nominal leftists who don't read theory, don't put their principles in practice in their life, and aren't connected with a party, cadre work, or real life organizing (guilty).
I think also, left-wing groups tend to be more prone to splitting off into separate factions whenever members disagree, whereas right-wing groups tend to just glom together under a broad umbrella. Which often means you're not just arguing your point against the right, but also a good chunk of the left as well.
Also the right aren't always even bothered with arguing their point at all, often they just insult their opponents and do whatever they like.
Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is working very hard against us.
I think, on some level, following the state line is easy internally because it is effectively giving up responsibility for your own and others actions. There's one or two sources of information, and doing what's right or wrong has an accessible choice that doesn't have the same moral weight if it fails and doesn't work.
If you want to truck outside that, your failures are your own.
(At least psychologically, that's how it feels)
I think socdem is the easiest followed by right wing then truly left wing. Saying that from originally being a socdem (communism is kinda hard to randomly stumble upon/research unless you live in an AES state or something). But depends a lot on the location.
For America being socdem definitely harder than right wing.
