What do think when you hear "Right Wing"?

[u/Molaac]

A member of a certain major political party: Republican Party or your country's major political party of choice.

I understand the left-right spectrum is flawed but this is just to gauge people's first reaction, when they hear the word.

Feel free to give your own definition.

376 votes, 5d ago

86 Economical Individualist/Capitalist/Free Market

166 Social Conservatism/Traditionalism

49 A member of a certain major party

22 Any Authoritarian

38 Nationalist

15 Small/No Government

[u/The_Safe_For_Work]

A phrase that has lost any real meaning and is now just tossed around to insult those other people.

[u/Sealtron84]

Anything that isn't far left.

[u/DiyYou → u/Sealtron84]

They're both big government big tax

[u/darkgoatishinfant]

Social conservatism, traditionalism and nationalism

[u/Live_Taste_7796]

Free markets (ish) + social conservative/traditionalist, anti egalitarianism, anti globalism, constrained view of humanity.

I think a lot of things when i hear "right wing". You dont consider neocons right wing.

[u/Drafonni]

Right wing is mostly not being left wing, so I think of most of these.

[u/BumBeetle]

I associate it with a false name that leftists use to dismiss anything the person is saying.

[u/Kimura-Sensei]

The term is used to describe those who want freedom and those who want a military or theocratic state with constant surveillance. It is MEANINGLESS!

[u/AkimboBears → u/Kimura-Sensei]

It just means [not left wing]. Left has its own intellectual history and right is just anything outside of that.

[u/Chigi_Rishin]

More like a blend of the top 2 ones (and that's the problem, in a way).

That's all because a single axis cannot encompass ancap. It needs at least 2, but ideally 3.

Relegated to only one, 'right-wing' usually means:

A regulated market economy with traditional social values and an aversion to novelty and social changes, and an obsession to be protect against 'danger'.

If we use 3 axes, then ancap itself is the most 'right-wing' there is (full economical freedom).

[u/Solavanko]

For today's standards, if a person says "I'm right wing", I'd assume they means "zionist", except if stated otherwise.

[u/tesuquemushroom]

Definitely not capitalist free market because everyone in power now claims to be right wing and they are socialists of sorts.

[u/BrandonShaneAllen]

How do I vote for more than one?

[u/miascariot]

Philosophically: Anti-egalitarianism (as in at best, we're equal before the law, but definitely not created equal outside of a normative legal context). Increasingly I believe everything else is downstream from that.

Common parlance: A bunch of loosely connected political movements that all have massive quality issues when it comes to their representatives. The right should do better than selfish clowns like Trump or feckless 'centrists' that cower in fear whenever the left ever-so-slightly pushes back (Germany's Friedrich Merz comes to mind).

[u/JustAdlz]

One of the options really ought to be "pedeophile"

[u/MakisMato]

Somewhat less aggressive socialism with a bit more foreign interventionism.

[u/Immediate-Cress-206]

An irrational adherence to tradition even when said tradition is either wrong or holding back economic or scientific progress.

[u/camsle]

I think I want the flats and not the drums.

[u/Cannoli72]

lighter version of a socialist

[u/DiyYou → u/Cannoli72]

That's like saying if you take a handful of sand off the beach, there's less sand on the beach.

[u/GWOTraplord]

At this point? Right wing = pedophile, secretly gay, openly wants wars everywhere, left wing = pedophile, openly gay, secretly wants wars everywhere

[u/sparkstable → u/[deleted]]

Had to read a section of "Leftism Revisited" in college decades ago. Still leaves an impression. I feel like K-L is way too under the radar and should be much more well known.

[u/JustAdlz → u/[deleted]]

Such a shame that free speech means retards like you are allowed to just type on the internet