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

Posted on 2/23/17 at 12:41 pm
Posted by CelticDog
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Posted on 2/23/17 at 12:41 pm
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alt-right is not right like us, they're actually leftists


"denounces-alt-right-as-left-wing-fascist-group"
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Posted by GFaceKillah
Welcome to the Third World
Member since Nov 2005
5935 posts
Posted on 2/23/17 at 12:42 pm to
Trigger warning!
Posted by Iosh
Bureau of Interstellar Immigration
Member since Dec 2012
18941 posts
Posted on 2/23/17 at 12:43 pm to
Leftism is bad, therefore bad things are leftist. It's basic logic!
Posted by Seldom Seen
Member since Feb 2016
40887 posts
Posted on 2/23/17 at 12:43 pm to
CPAC isn't right either. Those are all Establishment Cucks.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
263354 posts
Posted on 2/23/17 at 12:45 pm to
Alt right is a make believe division that makes it easy for someone who needs a convenient devil to blame evil upon.
Posted by CoachChappy
Member since May 2013
32684 posts
Posted on 2/23/17 at 12:46 pm to
That sounds like George Will talk to me, and as Dobbs pointed out on O'Reilly last night, George Will is spouting the same talking points as Head Clown Chuck Schumer these days.
Posted by Pax Regis
Alabama
Member since Sep 2007
12991 posts
Posted on 2/23/17 at 12:54 pm to
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.
Posted by LSUcjb318
Member since Jul 2008
2364 posts
Posted on 2/23/17 at 1:21 pm to
The alt-right is like the racist uncle of the GOP. You tell people in public that he's just crazy but secretively you admire him.

I'm not saying all Rep are racist but all the racist people in my family are Republicans.
Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35255 posts
Posted on 2/23/17 at 1:36 pm to
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.
Posted by LSUGrrrl
Frisco, TX
Member since Jul 2007
33839 posts
Posted on 2/23/17 at 1:50 pm to
Well, they're kinda correct. For all the misguided hate the alt-right get, they are much more progressive on race, gender marijuana. Basically, social issues aren't a thing for them. The hard right needs to figure out they lost this election, too.
Posted by goldennugget
Hating Masks
Member since Jul 2013
24514 posts
Posted on 2/23/17 at 1:53 pm to
I'm alt right and certainly not a leftist
Posted by NC_Tigah
Carolinas
Member since Sep 2003
124712 posts
Posted on 2/23/17 at 1:54 pm to
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CPAC crazy talk : alt-right is not right like us, they're actually leftists
It's always intriguing to hear the National Socialist Party somehow contrived to be right wing. No one could possibly make that intellectual case.
Posted by Numberwang
Bike City, USA
Member since Feb 2012
13163 posts
Posted on 2/23/17 at 2:09 pm to
NeoCons gonna NeoCon.

You didn't think we'd destroy the Globalist UniParty and they wouldn't fight back, did you??
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