The USA is confusing because both the left and right use a mixture of fascist tactics.
An example being Antifa actually uses fascist tactics with violence and intimidation to keep people from expressing a different point of view.
Claiming all other points of view is racism is just another tactic and a fallback plan.
It's the "our way or no way" method.
Democrats who want total government control are also using a fascist tactic.
A term for it is the "horseshoe theory" where extreme political parties actually meet up at the ends because they are quite similar.
There is so much more to fascist ideology than just racism. If anyone on the left is questioned about their beliefs or methods they just scream "Racism!"...but a lot of them use fascist tactics.
(The far left ones who will do anything to get their way)
It's no different than people pulling the race card about anything and everything just to get their way.
As the political horseshoe theory attributed to Jean-Pierre Faye highlights, if we travel far-left enough, we find the very same sneering, nasty and reckless bully-boy tactics used by the far-right. The two extremes of the political spectrum end up meeting like a horseshoe, at the top, which to my mind symbolizes totalitarian control from above. In their quest for ideological purity, Stalin and Hitler had more in common than modern neo-Nazis and far-left agitators would care to admit.
Horseshoe Theory link. Wikipedia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
@contenchess saidThe biggest problem with them is that we lie about and to ourselves and when filling them in.
@divegeester
Neither do I 😄
@kevcvs57
I answered truthfully. I always would.
It's only 6 or 7 multiple choice questions about the usual stuff.
I like some policies from here and there like a normal human.
I argue with democrats because they think they HAVE TO follow what everyone else is doing in their party. Stupid blind allegiance and singularly 🙄
Nobody accepts all policies in a certain political party and rejects all of the other party policies unless they are doing it on purpose out of anger or spite.
I don't think that internet test I provided is to be taken seriously either...just something interesting to do.
I'm a Moderate 🤗
@contenchess saidTraditional left- right- classifications almost don't apply to the U.S. For most Europeans, both American parties are so middle-of-the-road as to be nearly indistinguishable. American Democrats are slightly leftish of center, and Republicans are slightly rightish of center. The differences are trivial compared to, for example, Italian political parties, where you have several dozen parties, including genuine bad-old-fashioned communists, as well as regional parties. But to hear AverageJoe tell it, you'd think American liberals were on the verge of nationalizing the banks and outlawing private property.
@kevcvs57
I answered truthfully. I always would.
It's only 6 or 7 multiple choice questions about the usual stuff.
I like some policies from here and there like a normal human.
I argue with democrats because they think they HAVE TO follow what everyone else is doing in their party. Stupid blind allegiance and singularly 🙄
Nobody accepts all policies in a certain po ...[text shortened]... t I provided is to be taken seriously either...just something interesting to do.
I'm a Moderate 🤗
@contenchess saidThere that post there shows exactly how immoderate and blinded by partisan loyalties you are. The Dems are tearing themselves apart over Biden’s big ticket economic plans but no you see them as blindly following the party lines.
@kevcvs57
I answered truthfully. I always would.
It's only 6 or 7 multiple choice questions about the usual stuff.
I like some policies from here and there like a normal human.
I argue with democrats because they think they HAVE TO follow what everyone else is doing in their party. Stupid blind allegiance and singularly 🙄
Nobody accepts all policies in a certain po ...[text shortened]... t I provided is to be taken seriously either...just something interesting to do.
I'm a Moderate 🤗
As I said we have a tendency to lie to ourselves rendering these self analytical tools next to useless other than defining how we’d like to be seen by ourselves and others.
@kevcvs57
Well lets use this forum as an example...
Which democrat will admit Biden is doing a bad job with the border? None will say that.
Which democrat will say that the 3 trillion spending bill was ridiculous? None will say that.
Give me a democrat in here that is willing to say one bad thing? You can't because they won't.
That's ridiculous...
I agree with the infrastructure bill and so do a lot of Republicans. We don't blindly follow a party like the dems.