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Old 04-08-2017, 07:23 PM
 
Location: Portland, OR
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Old 04-08-2017, 07:26 PM
 
Location: Houston
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National socialists are labeled far right because it makes it seem like the left is not responsible for 90+% of government led atrocities in the last century.

The Nazis were national socialists. On economic grounds they were left of center. Left of FDR.

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Old 04-08-2017, 07:52 PM
 
Location: Lake Grove
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To leftists, one can never be far enough to the left.
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Old 04-08-2017, 11:11 PM
 
Location: Portland, Oregon
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All European political parties that are opposed to mass immigration are labeled "far right" by the media. This despite the fact that one of the major arguments these parties have against massive non-western immigration is that it is a threat to the welfare state. If you read the platforms of most (not all) of the anti-immigrant parties in Europe, they are committed to maintaining the welfare state. They are by no means conservative in the American sense. The mainstream media, which is in full support of globalism, consistently labels them "far right" in an effort to discredit them. Yet at the same time, there are European political parties and candidates that are various flavors of hard left Marxism but they are never labeled "far left" by the media.
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Old 04-08-2017, 11:14 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Bernie Sanders would be considered far right in France.
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Old 04-08-2017, 11:14 PM
 
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Or simply put -- you can't use an American scale to judge politicians from around the world.

What we would think of as far right is not the same as far right in Sweden .....or France.

It just isn't.
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Old 04-09-2017, 12:21 AM
 
Location: London
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Because on pretty much most issues other than immigration, the USA is on the far right compared to most other advanced economies. Hillary Clinton would be considered dedicedly right wing in most of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, etc.

You can't use American political standards to label other countries' parties. You just can't. They'll all compute as simply "RADICAL LEFT" here.
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Old 04-09-2017, 12:24 AM
 
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Because on pretty much most issues other than immigration, the USA is on the far right compared to most other advanced economies. Hillary Clinton would be considered dedicedly right wing in most of Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, etc.

You can't use American political standards to label other countries' parties. You just can't. They'll all compute as simply "RADICAL LEFT" here.
False. Research Australia and its immigration policies. The left wing loons in the U.S. would be protesting daily if we had the common sense approach to immigration that the Aussies have.
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Old 04-09-2017, 12:32 AM
 
Location: London
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False. Research Australia and its immigration policies. The left wing loons in the U.S. would be protesting daily if we had the common sense approach to immigration that the Aussies have.
I said on issues *aside* from immigration.

In terms of immigration, the USA is as liberal as it gets.
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Old 04-09-2017, 12:38 AM
 
Location: Pacific Beach/San Diego
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Because she loves the idea of Hitler goose stepping down the Champs-Elysees.
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