What worries me about this is that it takes people who have those right-wing views and connect them in the real world. Like, in an Internet time where community is more rare, this actually takes those people and creates a real-world community. In what ways are non-right wing people organizing?

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    5 days ago

    right wing politics are all about control through power. left wing politics are all about liberation through coalition building to resist that power.

    Whether the ideology used in authoritarian propaganda is left-sounding or right-sounding doesn’t really make a difference, and messages that may appeal to both sides are often used together.

    To me your “power vs resistance” dichotomy sounds more like “authority vs anarchy” that “right vs left”.

    Personally, I’d say the difference between left and right lies mainly in the equilibrium between striving for social equality (which right-wing people could refer to as “welfarism”) and defending the acquired rights of individuals (which left-wing people could call “furthering privileges”), but then of course it’s not like people/parties stand in an uni-dimensional spectrum (“trust in the future vs fear of the future” could also be a good way to characterize “left vs right”).