About a year ago I gave up trying to define “left,” “right,” “liberal,” and “conservative.” The concepts are too nebulous, and people have strong incentives to distort their meanings. There’s no stable “there” there. This has been wonderfully liberating.
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I’ve described culture war in private conversations as choosing which of 4 funerals of political personae to attend at the end of history. My labels for the 4 corpses don’t line up cleanly with the 4 labels you’re rejecting but are fairly simple mappings. I’ll blog this soon.
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Agree with vgr here that it's more we love in the Transition, then all ability to discern these groupings has died.
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first-pass-the-post nature of US means a rough coalition of ideas *will* eventually coalesce into the two parties. Reorging has happened before. broke: lib/left/con/etc. mean same thing as decades ago woke: they mean nothing bespoke: they are placeholders for meaning
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They are still stable in some parts of the world. Taxi wars and burning trucks in South Africa feel very much like 19th C labor violence. But that is very much not the same left as the US or Euro left.
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