Why does this article think that Kelloggs is 'far left'? Because it wants to help make sure people from all races have similar levels of opportunity and that your race or nationality shouldn't hold you back from fulfilling your potential just on the basis of other peoples' prejudices? I don't understand why that is a) a left wing idea or b) a bad thing??
I hate the way the right seem to have decided to label everything they don't like as being 'left wing,' even when it's completely the opposite. Like the idea that the Clintons or the Democrats are left wing is utterly laughable. The EU? The EU is right wing/centre right. George Soros? Right wing. In the traditional sense of what left and right mean. I think what people are getting mixed up about is that ideologies like that of Clinton, for example, are economically very right wing and neoliberal, and they are also socially liberal, so basically they don't want to interfere in how individuals choose to live their lives, let people marry who they want, do what they want with their own bodies etc - they don't care about that stuff, that's just stuff to get people on their side, what they really care about is their awful criminal economic policies and their perverted form of sociocorporatism, where economically there is socialism for corporations/the rich (i.e. the working people and the poor prop up the banks and the corporations with their taxes by bailing them out, subsidising wages etc) and capitalism for the workers and the poor (i.e. dog eat dog). They are NOT left wing.
I get the feeling the right try to characterise these awful people and ideas as left wing so that people will never bother looking into what actual left wing policies are like, centre-left democratic socialist policies, which are basically for the good of the people, not dictated by governments and bankers and corporate lobbyists. Of course they don't want people getting wind of that. It's so frustrating to me, I see it ALL THE TIME, people getting it all wrong and mixed up. Argh.
In reality, they are all left wing. Socialism/Communism (what the left is referred to) and Fascism (what the right is referred to) are both on the LEFT. On the far right side would be anarchy and right next to that would be our "Constitutional Republic." In fact, we are not a Constitutional Republic nor any system even closely related to such. We are more of an Oligarchy at this point.
But I digress... calling one extreme right and the other left is a false left-right paradigm. They both exist on the far left.
No, they aren't. But I think it doesn't matter anymore, everything has turned into such a mess I don't think the right left dichotomy is at all useful anymore, too many people think it means different things, which means it's lost any coherent meaning and therefore lost any usefulness. We need to start thinking in terms of us vs them. As in us, normal ordinary people all over the world, and them - psychopathic child raping warmongering money sucking slave driving monsters that have somehow engineered themselves into positions of ultimate power over OUR world. The world belongs to the nice, kind ordinary human beings, who are by far the majority - these abominations of our species have stolen it from us. So that's the real fight everyone should concentrate on, I think.
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SpikyAube ago
Why does this article think that Kelloggs is 'far left'? Because it wants to help make sure people from all races have similar levels of opportunity and that your race or nationality shouldn't hold you back from fulfilling your potential just on the basis of other peoples' prejudices? I don't understand why that is a) a left wing idea or b) a bad thing??
I hate the way the right seem to have decided to label everything they don't like as being 'left wing,' even when it's completely the opposite. Like the idea that the Clintons or the Democrats are left wing is utterly laughable. The EU? The EU is right wing/centre right. George Soros? Right wing. In the traditional sense of what left and right mean. I think what people are getting mixed up about is that ideologies like that of Clinton, for example, are economically very right wing and neoliberal, and they are also socially liberal, so basically they don't want to interfere in how individuals choose to live their lives, let people marry who they want, do what they want with their own bodies etc - they don't care about that stuff, that's just stuff to get people on their side, what they really care about is their awful criminal economic policies and their perverted form of sociocorporatism, where economically there is socialism for corporations/the rich (i.e. the working people and the poor prop up the banks and the corporations with their taxes by bailing them out, subsidising wages etc) and capitalism for the workers and the poor (i.e. dog eat dog). They are NOT left wing.
I get the feeling the right try to characterise these awful people and ideas as left wing so that people will never bother looking into what actual left wing policies are like, centre-left democratic socialist policies, which are basically for the good of the people, not dictated by governments and bankers and corporate lobbyists. Of course they don't want people getting wind of that. It's so frustrating to me, I see it ALL THE TIME, people getting it all wrong and mixed up. Argh.
cousineerie ago
In reality, they are all left wing. Socialism/Communism (what the left is referred to) and Fascism (what the right is referred to) are both on the LEFT. On the far right side would be anarchy and right next to that would be our "Constitutional Republic." In fact, we are not a Constitutional Republic nor any system even closely related to such. We are more of an Oligarchy at this point.
But I digress... calling one extreme right and the other left is a false left-right paradigm. They both exist on the far left.
SpikyAube ago
No, they aren't. But I think it doesn't matter anymore, everything has turned into such a mess I don't think the right left dichotomy is at all useful anymore, too many people think it means different things, which means it's lost any coherent meaning and therefore lost any usefulness. We need to start thinking in terms of us vs them. As in us, normal ordinary people all over the world, and them - psychopathic child raping warmongering money sucking slave driving monsters that have somehow engineered themselves into positions of ultimate power over OUR world. The world belongs to the nice, kind ordinary human beings, who are by far the majority - these abominations of our species have stolen it from us. So that's the real fight everyone should concentrate on, I think.