Comments on: It’s Time to Reject the Ideological Prison of the Left-Right Divide https://freethepeople.org/its-time-to-reject-the-ideological-prison-of-the-left-right-divide/ Free thinkers, unite. Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:20:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: Michael https://freethepeople.org/its-time-to-reject-the-ideological-prison-of-the-left-right-divide/#comment-38026 Mon, 27 Feb 2023 21:28:56 +0000 https://freethepeople.org/?p=13067#comment-38026 Thanks RJ for the reading and the comment.

I agree that the radical left/progressives stream rolled right-leaning Americans and conservatives into submission for some time. President Trump certainly emboldened conservatives to finally fight back.

The risk as I see it for traditional conservatives is that they are becoming more like the left in their means. The intended end goal may be very different, but both roads – the progressive and the natcon road – seem to agree on centralization or as Wilhelm Ropke saw it “Centrist”.

I also agree with you that the progressives does control the vocabulary or is much better at appropriating it. The terms “centrist” and “decentrist” undermine that vocabulary. A centrist can be a democract or republican as can a decentrist. Also these terms allow for us to analyze a policy proposal. Does “x policy” further centralize control or decentralize it?

My other recent article hits on the idea of government policy assisting vs subverting the authority of there spheres of society.

]]> By: RJ Hall https://freethepeople.org/its-time-to-reject-the-ideological-prison-of-the-left-right-divide/#comment-37816 Sat, 25 Feb 2023 15:36:04 +0000 https://freethepeople.org/?p=13067#comment-37816 A thought-provoking argument with a lot of merits. On the other side, I think that for far too long the conservative right has “gone along to get along” when confronted with a growing number of progressive demands. As a result, the left became accustomed to steam-rolling conservatives (and libertarians?) into acquiescing to their policies, which are predominately centrist (and destructive to the Republic).
Beginning with Reagan–and then codified with Trump–the conservative right started pushing back. This upset the status quo and needed to be squashed. When conservatives finally grew a spine and refused to back down, all of a sudden they were labeled as radical and divisive. The left controls the vocabulary and narrative via the media, so conservatives were labeled white nationalist racists and the conservative boogeyman was created.

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