CPAC crazy talk : alt-right is not right like us, they're actually leftists

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Leftism is bad, therefore bad things are leftist. It's basic logic!

Alt right is a make believe division that makes it easy for someone who needs a convenient devil to blame evil upon.

They got Trump elected. Kellyanne Conway is the reason he got elected.

Bannon maybe on the Trump train, but without Kellyanne HRC is president.

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Hmmmm. This sounds like the establishment GOP trying to undermine its biggest threat to its stranglehold on the Republican Party.


The so called alt-right is mainly just the younger generation of conservatives. Something the GOP should embrace provided no white supremacy ideology is involved.

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Alt right is a make believe division that makes it easy for someone who needs a convenient devil to blame evil upon.

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To me it's more like:

RINO or Trumpsessed - John McCain, Rick Wilson. People who are either moderate Democrats or they're so fricked up about Trump they can't see straight.

Establishment - Normal, ranging from entrenched people who don't want to rock the boat to people who actually try but value the traditional GOP (Paul Ryan)

Average Trump Supporter - Can be mixed with establishment, want to try something new, voted for Trump because of lack of better options or modest interest in his persona/ideas

Ardent Trump Supporter - Most of this board, reluctant to criticize Trump, bought into cult of personality but otherwise inoffensive

"Alt-Right" - Rants about white genocide, may not be full blown white supremacist, but a lot of racial anger. Usually these types have their hand out in a populist, "give me the money, not those dirty immigrants!" way.

Trolling Alt Right - Nihilist nerds without much ideological concern at all, they found a home in the Trump campaign and an enemy in MSM and the hard left.

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CPAC isn't right either. Those are all Establishment Cucks.

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Lolz

I don't know what they are, but this is the problem with reducing complex ideologies into a single, linear continuum AND then further reducing it into the binary "left vs. right."

This was no more obvious than when this board a number of discussions regarding the categorization of fascism as "right wing." Fascism does typically value many right wing principles (Nationalism, maintaining social structures and hierarchies, private property, anti-communism, etc.), BUT it also seems absurd to place communism and fascism at complete opposite sides of the spectrum when in practice the diffences are hardly noticeable due to the authoritarian nature.

Here was see it in the Democratic party (liberals vs. progressives vs. Socialists), and maybe even moreso in the GOP (libertarians vs. neoconservatives vs. social conservatives vs. all-right). Not only does it the complicate things within a party some ideologies have left and right wing values (libertarians).

This all highlights the fundamental problems with a two party system, expecially in the Internet age, where people can be exposed to more principles and ideologies. I think having varying ideologies is great, especially since it exposes ideas and let's people find their niche.

However, those benefits are lost when we reduce those ideologies to the two parties. I really wish we had a multi-party system. And although coalitions of a multi-party system may look similar to our current system in practice, I think it would at least allow for more diverse views ideas, allow people to feel better about their political affiliation and support (instead of lesser of two evils), incentivize politicians to find common ground, and give voters more value, especially in the partisan states.

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Leftism is bad, therefore bad things are leftist. It's basic logic!

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I'm just gonna pretend all the upvotes are people appreciating my sarcasm.