In the world of politics the first rule is “Define, or be defined” and political victories are won by those who do the defining. Critical to the political definition game is the use of labels, most significantly, the terms ‘Left’ and ‘Right.’
Over the past few years, a pattern is developing in which more and more people who previously identified themselves as ‘left wing’ or ‘moderate’ are surprisingly finding themselves being labeled ‘right wing’ without really understanding why.
Citing their support for freedom of speech, bodily autonomy, an end to foreign wars, and other philosophically-aligned-with-freedom issues, they express regret that the Left has ‘abandoned’ these values and that these values are now being espoused by the Right.
However, their description of this process as a ‘re-alignment’ of the political Left and Right is incorrect. What is actually happening is an awakening to the true nature of Left and Right. The Left has long represented the ideology of tyranny in all its forms, while the Right has represented the ideology of freedom.
What those who find themselves gravitating to the Right are experiencing is the political reality of the Left-Right polarity. And most interestingly, they are even gravitating away from what they perceive as a ‘moderate’ position. That’s because in reality there is no ‘moderate’ position since there is no such thing as a ‘political spectrum’ on which such a position can possibly exist.
Given this reality, one would think that those who support individual freedom and capitalism would be proud and delighted at being labeled ‘Right’. But not so. Why? Because the Left has been successful in the definition game of politics.
By propagandizing a false ‘political spectrum’ with communism on the ‘Left’ and fascism on the ‘Right,’ the Left succeeded in destroying the Right at its most fundamental level: by destroying the Right’s very identity, and with it the ability to distinguish itself from the Left.
Those on the Right have been made to feel guilty about their own actual political identity, fearing a false association of the ‘Right’ with fascism, racism, and Hitler. Among the labels that most frighten those on the Right are ‘far right’, ‘extreme right’, ‘alt-right’, ‘right wing’, etc., even though these terms are utterly meaningless and cannot be objectively defined.
But unlike the meaningless ‘right’ terms accompanied by an adjective, the isolated political label of what is ‘Right’ does indeed have meaning, and represents individualism, freedom, capitalism.
Meanwhile, in an attempt to avoid being labeled any variant of Left or Right, there are those who seek escape from the political identity game entirely by repeating the mistake of defining themselves as ‘centrist’ or ‘moderate.’ This is contradictory, given that these terms themselves can only be defined in terms of Left and Right. For example, against what ‘extremes’ is one being ‘moderate’? What is a ‘centrist’ in the center of?
Whether we like it or not, polarized political labels are unavoidable – and necessary. This is why it is essential that such labels be defined accurately – in a way that corresponds to reality. For those on the side of freedom (the Right), it’s a matter of life and death.
It bears noting that only ‘evil’ insists on not being seen, identified, or labeled, because that works to its advantage. But when the ‘good’ refuse to be identified or labeled, we should not be surprised that their political representatives are always up to ‘no good’, thanks to the fact that they don’t ‘know good’, lacking the accurate labels or definitions to do so.
One thing is certain: in political terms, there’s nothing ‘moderate’ about being Right.
That’s why, at the beginning of each broadcast, we define our perspective as not merely being right ‘wing’, but Just Right.
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