IceAgeComing
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« on: January 30, 2018, 07:42:16 PM » |
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This is a nonsense thing to do though: there are many issues that aren't left-right in any meaningful sense; or which the left-right spectrum is backwards between countries. A key example of that is Federalism and supporting the devolution of power; in Europe that tends to be something that left wing parties call for while in America its most often used by the Republican Party. There are also issues where clearly the spectrum is totally different: every nation is Europe is clearly to the right of the US on immigration; and that's even factoring in the fact that Trump is President. There's also the fact that ideology isn't based on core policies or anything like that but on values and that makes things harder to place politically - for example many of the countries listed above as "more right wing than the US" don't have anything like the common rhetoric on individualism and similar things which is omnipresent in America - indeed, that's something that tends to be more common in Western Europe which is seen as more left wing.
Basically this is an exercise that's entirely meaningless, and there are no real answers.
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