{"id":9884,"date":"2019-03-14T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=9884"},"modified":"2019-03-19T06:43:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T10:43:21","slug":"599-left-right-and-the-extreme-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/9884","title":{"rendered":"599 – Left, Right and the Extreme Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like them or not, the labels of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ are invariably used in the political war of words that rages perpetually.\u00a0As ideological identifiers, they are fundamental and necessary.
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\nWhile those on the Left often proudly boast their ideological affiliation with the Left, those on the Right have been shamed into avoiding their proper and commendable political affiliation. Today, being labeled \u2018extreme right wing\u2019 is considered the ultimate insult since it has been falsely associated with the evils of fascism, an ideology of the Left.<\/strong>
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\nThis problem has become particularly visible (though not understood) thanks to the debates seen and heard on social media, where accusations of being \u2018extreme\u2019 right, racist, fascist, etc have become the common pejorative used by the Left against its opponents.\u00a0
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\nThis has made it possible for many on the Left to justify censoring or banning the \u2018extreme right\u2019 from social media.\u00a0 Ironically, social media has been monopolized by the Left<\/strong> \u2013 communists, fascists, socialists, and \u2018progressives.\u2019
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\nWorse, Left and Right have been described as two ends of an imaginary \u2018spectrum\u2019 usually illustrated with a straight line.\u00a0 Understandably, this has forced many to politically identify themselves as being in the \u2018center<\/strong>\u2019 \u2013 the only possible position on this scale that can distance them as far from each tyrannical and totalitarian \u2018extreme\u2019 as possible.\u00a0
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\nIn so doing, they have fallen into the very trap set for them by those on the Left, who consciously and deliberately moved fascism from its long known and established position on the Left to the Right side of the newly created fake \u2018spectrum.\u2019\u00a0<\/strong> Thus, the Left deprived the Right of its \u2018Rightful\u2019 place where freedom, individualism, and capitalism reside.
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\nThose claiming to be in the \u2018center\u2019 insist that they are not \u2018extremists,\u2019 and argue that they choose some of their political policies from the left and some from the right.\u00a0 Yet, on this political \u2018spectrum,\u2019 each side is an \u2018extreme\u2019 so those who argue that they support some kind of \u2018mix\u2019 between these two extremes are still picking extreme positions (i.e., a little bit of communism mixed with a little bit of fascism).<\/strong>
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\nMissing entirely from this fictional spectrum, of course, is any legitimate place for freedom or capitalism.\u00a0
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\nWithout a proper political compass (tyranny on the Left, freedom on the Right) to guide people in the political direction they actually wish to move, there will never be a choice for those who support freedom, individualism or any philosophy that is Just Right.<\/p>\n

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