Conservatives don't lack common sense, they lack imagination and education about how things work in other countries.
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Everything is mixed up over there. If you're a patholic lier, they think you speak the truth. If you rape kids and hide the evidence they make you President...
Yes, the centrist position in the US is some people have to starve and die in order to keep minimum wage workers motivated to keep working. The left right divids in US Congress is over how many exactly should starve and die.
In Hungary, thanks to the utter incompetence of Ferenc GyurcsΓ‘ny and the early adoption of alt media by the right, it was considered a "right wing" value to oppose mass privatization. When Fidesz won, they pulled a covert 360 on it, by letting the government to have a maximum of 25% share in select companies, but secretly continued the privatization project, especially if it involved giving the schools to churches.
As if anyone cares what they would be "in america" as a non-american. Human existence is not defined by the US perspective.
From our German view, the republicans are far right.
You mean democrats are far right in comparison?
Does anyone think Republicans aren't far right???
From my point of view, the Jedi are evil.
I'd say the republicans are on the outer political right, but not completely far right yet, since there are republicans who aren't conservative/maga and know when something is to far. (E.g. Arnold schwarzenegger)
But when it comes to convervatives/maga... Send em straight to the NΓΌrnberg trails, they're beyond saving.
Pretty sure they didn't have to "break the news" on that.
I was talking to a Polish friend about Polish politics. He said in Poland, like in the US, they had both conservative and liberal parties - but that the topics for debate were different. In Poland, the conservatives agreed with the liberals on things like healthcare funding, supporting higher education, and funding transit projects. All these things were non-issues in Polish politics.
"Well," says I, "Then I'm confused. If the conservatives and liberals agree on all those things, then what makes them different? What makes the conservatives, conservative?"
"Ah, you see," he says, "They're racist. That's the whole thing - they're just racist."
That is, to some extent how you break down left/right politics in the UK too, though our right wing parties will gladly accept black people in order to try and convince voters that they're not racist.
Always has been
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In the US "Conservative" means you worship billionaires and just do whatever the politicians that serve those billionaires tell you to do.
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