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[–]AFutureConcern 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It took the entire left shifting 7 lightyears away from me before I realized that lol. At this point I don't know what I am.

Recognizing that political discourse has shifted far to the left, and believing that this is a bad thing; that we should reverse course from where we are because something's been lost - this makes you what's called a reactionary.

The fact that it's true that we've gone so far left in such a short time, means of course that people who would have been considered center-left 10 years ago will be reactionaries now if they didn't change their views. As you observe, "conservatives were right" - they predicted the moral decay of our current age. But those before them predicted the moral decay of theirs; consider the sexual revolution and how it paved the way for LGBT rights.

Reactionaries follow this logic to its conclusion. If discourse has been shifting leftward for so long, with the conservatives predicting every step, where did things go wrong? Was it LGBT rights? Was it the sexual revolution? Was it the 19th amendment? Was it the enlightenment? Answers differ on this question, but most reactionaries would agree that we're witnessing the decline of our civilization.

I still don't agree entirely with the ideology of the right

One important thing to note about what's called "the right" is that it's not a single viewpoint. Unlike the left, which can be loosely identified as a single structure that favors egalitarianism and social justice (who admittedly disagree about how to get there), the right is simply a rejection of the left - which you also reject, making you therefore right-wing. Viewpoints that reject the egalitarianism and social justice of the left include:

  • Classical Liberalism - People should be judged and treated as though they are individuals apart from any collective. We expect inequality of outcomes given equal treatment, and any attempt to "correct" these outcomes are illiberal and therefore unjust.
  • Monarchism - Property can extend to ownership of entire peoples. A monarch with absolute power has a personal interest in the fate of his kingdom, therefore will plan for the long-term far better than a transient democratically-elected leader or a decentralized coalition of syndicates.
  • (Right-)Libertarianism - the "Non-Aggression Principle" leads to unequal outcomes between individuals and groups; it is immoral to rectify these inequalities.
  • Fascism - The nation is a people; a group with a shared heritage, culture and language, inhabiting a territory that belongs to them. Nations are different - we should expect different outcomes between them. Within a nation, productivity should be rewarded; some are more productive than others, leading to natural inequality.
  • Civic Nationalism - The nation is an idea; a group with a shared set of values, who happen to occupy a territory where those ideas predominantly originated. Nations are different - some ideas are worse than others. We should reject ideas that threaten the nation even if that means (on average) discriminating against certain groups.
  • Islamic Theocracy - Allah is the one true God and Mohammad is his prophet. This divine truth reveals that the world must be brought into submission to Allah, with a unification of Islam and the state.