re: #420 EPR-radar

What’s wrong with the basic definitions given in Wikipedia?

“Right-wing politics are political positions or activities that accept or support social hierarchy or social inequality. Those affiliated with the Right consider social hierarchy and social inequality as either inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically justifying this position on the basis of natural law or tradition.”

“Left-wing politics are political positions or activities that accept or support social equality, often in opposition to social hierarchy and social inequality. It typically involves a concern for those in society who are perceived as disadvantaged relative to others and an assumption that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished.”

This doesn’t seem either inherently meaningless or impossibly far removed from reality to me.

Many ‘right-wing’ people in the US claim that they are the real supporters of social equality, that their way will actually lead to it, and that the left-wing way actually codifies inequality.