re: #68 clgood

That’s my meta point, I guess. I can point at lots of things and tell they are “left wing”. But what, exactly, is a useful definition of “right wing”?

I understand your point about public perception. But I’m talking about reality here.

That’s trickier, of course. Part of the problem, at least as I see it, is that “the right” becomes the defualt position of anyone who is not a “progressive,” which is to say, anyone who is not a sociallist of one stripe or another.

Think about this - De Maistre, Ronald Reagan, and Rudy Giuliani, as intellectually and politically diverse a triad as I can think of, are all described as “rightists,” and Lenin, FDR, and Castro, are somehow all “leftists”. The terms are too broad to be useful, to me at least.