but you did say: "Right-wing people support economic liberty but are in general more willing to see the government spy on its civilians via unconstitutional surveillance, and some rightists subscribe to an interventionist foreign police. Left-wing people support economic tyranny with a massive regulatory bureaucracy but are in general less willing to see the government spy on its civilians, and originally many supported a policy of peace and non-intervention, though sadly this has wavered away in recent years, especially under the current warmongering occupant of the White House..." which is also wildly incorrect and is the thing I was arguing against.
Again, I was making a generalisation that does not hold true 100% of the time. I have explained to you what I meant by "economic liberty" so there's no fallacy there, as I have defined my terms and you have defined yours. The true debate should be over why we believe economic liberty is what it is.
...they called themselves the National Socialist German Workers Party because it sounded positive to the working class voter base, NOT because they were, or had any intentions of being, left-wing. Another easy example is the North Korean state, the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea"; just because a state/party calls themselves something, does NOT mean they actually ARE that thing.
My point exactly. If so many people have been fooled so many times by authoritarians advocating for things that sound good to time, why should we not be more skeptical of those who promise the very things Hitler did? Historically, these people have a horrible track record of tyranny once they come into office, and it would be presumptuous to assume that's changed now...
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I have explained to you what I meant by "economic liberty" so there's no fallacy there, as I have defined my terms and you have defined yours. The true debate should be over why we believe economic liberty is what it is.
Yes that is quite literally the entire point I have been trying to make: our own interpretations of "economic liberty" are entirely subjective, and even largely antithetical to each other's, hence why it is not a useful term to claim categorizes left and right-wing ideological thought. We could both have logically sound reasons as to why we believ… Read more