• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Are you saying the US is left wing? Because they have a lot of socialist policies.

    Are you saying the US army is left wing? Because they have a complete socialist structure.

    The meaning of left and right wing were lost long ago.

    Right: Supporters of the old order, the monarchy, and aristocracy.

    Left: Supporters of the revolution, republicanism, and secularism, who wanted to change the existing system.

    From the original definition the whole world is pretty much left unless they are ruled by a aristocracy or a monarch.

    Of course you could also argue most Democracies are in name only and the wealthy still call all the shots. So that would mean the whole world is really right.

    I think this highlights how useless these words have become even without the extreme polarization they have in places like the US.