Why is the Right so unattractive?

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[–]Feldheld 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Very simple reason: right-wingers are mostly just cowards. Most right-wingers arent actually conservatives in any intellectual or ideological sense. Theyre just what leftists hate in conservatives: cowards who are afraid of any kind of change. But these "conservatives" are also the enemy of true intellectual conservatives who arent conservative just for the sake of avoiding change. Many leftists belong to this type of conservatives, too. It's the Romneys, the Merkels, the Boris Johnsons. They just try to conserve any state of affairs that has come to be no matter how it came to be and no matter if it is a good state of affairs that deserves to be conserved. Theyre just cowards. They have no intellectual power, no strategic talent, no balls, no brains. They rule by fear, their own fear, and by spreading fear. And they hate any true conservative, any true intellectual, and any kind of hero who does the right thing when it counts because it is the right thing.

The COVID crisis has spread the wheat from the chaff. Here in Germany it is some of the hard leftists of all people who have shown true courage, intellect, and even heroism, while almost all "conservatives" have completely given themselves up to the reign of terror.

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    [–]Feldheld 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Its not the ideology thats at fault, its the people who view themselves as conservatives without giving any thought for the ideology.

    [–]TheJamesRocket 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Here in Germany it is some of the hard leftists of all people who have shown true courage, intellect, and even heroism

    Have they been arguing against the lockdowns and vaccine mandates? What about the calls to abolish the Nuremberg code?

    [–]Feldheld 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Im talking about Sarah Wagenknecht and Oscar Lafontaine, both very prominent figures of the party "die Linke" (the left), who have been very outspoken against the lockdown and the mandates. Of course there are single individuals in other parties as well, but usually backbenchers without much influence and little presence in the media.

    [–]Gre 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

    That and the economic policy. I don't want to give up my income for the sake of corporate profits.

    [–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    In the UK the Conservative party used to be the party of small business. A lot of working class trades people became very rich under Thatcher. That focus has disappeared over the last decade or so though.

    [–]Gre 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Fair enough. It's not like I don't appreciate the right wing perspective, which in recent years has been slightly preferable to the left imho. These days all we have are neoliberals, and it is actually not possible to be a conservative and support capitalism. Capitalism is a constant revolution that breaks all boundaries except the one between the owner and the worker.

    [–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Then why do you support the Democrat party over the Republican party? Have you not been paying attention for the last 40 or so years as the Democrat party sold out all the good paying jobs to slave labor in western Taiwan(sometimes referred to as china)?

    [–]Gre 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Did I say I support the Dems? Learn to read

    [–][deleted] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    I'm a long time fan of Maher, been watching him since Politically Incorrect because our political beliefs are usually very similar. Before the pandemic he had started to go ultra liberal, embracing the things that were turning me away from the party. I stopped watching him for the first time in two decades.

    The thing is, at his core he's a 90s liberal -- that looks conservative these days but it's not.

    His party no longer serves his beliefs, but he isn't going Republican, the logical option is not pledging to either party and going Independent.

    [–]jet199[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Boris Johnson is the most liberal guy in the UK conservative party and they made him leader. That's how he won a landslide election and has stayed in after endless scandals, the true liberals have no one else to vote for.

    [–]Fitter_Happier 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    Because the real Right has been purged from all public spaces dipshit. I love Douglas Murray, used to anyway, but he has gotten faker and (even) gayer recently. Sounds like they got to him.

    [–]jet199[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    So you're saying that if the right were allowed to air all their views on every channel freely they'd be more popular among centrists?

    [–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Yes.

    [–]Fitter_Happier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Yes.

    [–]WalkingIn2Madness 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Because they're useless most of the time prior to Trumps election win in 2016. Other than Trump, Ron Paul was the only other likable candidate.

    Ron Paul: Send our boys home from these expensive wars with a free market!

    Trump: Make America Great Again! Build the Wall!

    Most RINO's: Jesus Gawd, Jesus Gawd...... Errrr stawp terrorism......

    [–]iDontShift 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    i believe they have done this deliberately

    by having the guys the right loves

    say things that right ignores.. the the left can't let go of

    i feel the same is for the left

    say things the left thinks are insignificant.. but the right can't ignore

    perfect system to keep division going as you create these blindspots in both sides and have the leaders of both sides exploit those blindspots... in effect hiding in those blindspots

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    everyone wants leftwing economic polices and rightwing conservative social issue policies. Cuz that makes the most sense. No politician is allowed to have this mix of common sense.

    [–]IkeConn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

    Dude, have you even looked at those ugly ass LGBTQ+ blue leffty shitstains recently? They look like fucking clowns.

    [–]jet199[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    The article isn't about looks

    [–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Everything is about looks sooner or later.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    i thought it was too, they used the word unattractive on purpose, knowing it's most common definition and how it is most important to people. Clickbait.

    [–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    At one point during the panel, Dave brought up the popular talk-show host Bill Maher. In recent years, Maher has singled himself out on the American Left for his willingness to criticise the excesses of his own political side, in particular “cancel culture” and the “cult of woke”. Dave suggested that, given how much Maher agrees with conservatives on these points, it is strange that he still identifies with the Left. In other words, why should he not come over and join the merry men of the Right?

    Bill Maher is a populist scumbag. The right really really dont want him

    [–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Because there is a legion of "journalists" whose only job is to smear anyone caught being to the right of Marx. The sheep are afraid of being called names, so they join in on the name calling out of fear.