The right can absolutely be bad irregardless of the left! Its badness worries me much more The left is enabling it to gain power by not curbing its insane elements enough to be electable & making the right look more coherent & reasonable. That is my personal problem with the lefthttps://twitter.com/Daniel_Rivieria/status/956877092565626881 …
I'm a leftist. I assume you know the disagreements between the left and the right? Those.
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Even a leftist can acknowledge the merits of his/her opponents being in power while cleaving to a set ideology. Cameron's re-election partly due to "shy toryism" among urban Labour voters. Macron poached socialist votes. Etc.
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I can, yes, but I probably can't explain why I favour a centre-left party over a right-wing one on Twitter. It is the usual economic and social issues tho.
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Sorry for the broad, open-ended question and, at the risk of sounding reductionist, which contemporary political force do you think best embodies Enlightenment values?
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I think that might be the wrong way to look at it and co-authored a thing arguing why. It is summarised at the beginning if you don't have half an hour!https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ …
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Will read. Cheers!
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