What does "left-wingest" mean?
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It means you're an evil commie pinko\n\nGod bless America
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Seems to me you have the definition of liberal confused with pro-activists persons. Pro-activism does not necessarily mean liberal. If that were true, anti-abortionists and anti-gun control protesters would be considered liberal.\n\nI consider myself a FAR LEFT liberal because I am a constitutionalists. It is that simple.\n\nIf you go by the constitution, you would be pro-gay marriage, pro-choice, pro-gun, pro-free speech, pro-flag burning, anti-prayer in public schools, etc... all of which have been settled in the courts based on the constitution.\n\nAlways gets me when rightwingers say us liberals hate America when they are the ones that don't love the civil liberties within the constitution.
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Liberal Party is the name of dozens of political parties around the world. It usually designates a party that is ideologically liberal, meaning that they advocate individual rights and civil liberties, and sometimes left wing, meaning that they are egalitarian and believe in the redistribution of wealth from rich to poor. However, there are also many Liberal Parties which subscribe to classical liberalism and therefore support a mostly unregulated free market, or who are actually more conservative in nature than their opponents, or whose views are right wing, libertarian, or difficult to categorise.
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in america - \nthe LEFT wing is the liberal movement - they support abortion, gay rights, womens right and immigration rights now. mainly democrats - the focus is on domestic polices greater government intervention and  diplomacy in foreign policy\nthe RIGHT wing - opposes all the above, they are conservative, christianists, generally republican, pro business and advocate a greater military role in foreign policy
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Liberal is left wing\n\nConservative is right wing\n\nThink of it as a line with 0 as the center and 1 thru ten going in each direction. People land somewhere on that scale based on their politics.
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left. most of these post/answers are to lame to come from a right winger....
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No I think both extremes are pretty wacked.  The left really has no agenda - just hatred of everything moderate and to the right.  At least I don't get or understand the far lefts agenda.  The radical right agenda would border on racist and is full of hate as well - I guess "hate" is the similarity of the two.
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Basically, political position is the conception you have about how the world, or your country, would be governed or managed, and the values the people should hold. There are many possible political positions, but, in short, the usual division is between right and left. People standing right in right or left are so called extremists of right or left, respectively. There can be many positions in the middle or at some point between right and left.\nWhat is right? basically in the right you think that companies should be free to do all the money they want, that police and military are good for nature and they have to keep the order, you think that family has to be between woman and men, and more important, private property is a must.  In the left, people think that companies should be managed by the state or, at least, controlled, police should not do any kind of repression, private companies steal money from the people, and the state has to control and manage property. Private property has to be very limited or not exist at all.\nOf course, reality is more complicated and rich. This is just a hint to give you a short answer to your question. In the middle of everything you have liberalism, socialism, communism, fascism, nazism, republicanism, etc, etc.\nThe word left come from the Assembly during French Revolution, the ones sit in the left were the radicals, they wanted change. The ones in the rights are conservatives. That is another explanation of political position, the left wants the change, the right wants the statu quo. That is why everybody has a political position. Everybody has a political position. Even if he/she says "I am not in politics". If you do nothing to change the things, you are simply a conservative of right.
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political correctness= as not to offend\n\npolitical correctness=when you do offend, you say your sorry!
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It seems as so, mostly in rural towns or towns with America's elite. Though most towns, say college cities lean toward the liberal end. Most major cities in the south also lean towards the left.
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The main problem is that these "WORDS" are tossed around and used incorrectly! \n\nLiberal (Left Wing) should mean a free thinker, open minded, ect...\n\nConservatives (Right Wing) are people who should save, protect, or carefully use assets or make choices that require unclouded thinking.\n\nIn the end it's all a bunch of bull shit! The so called conservatives are ignorant minions of the wealthy and powerful. The GOP (grand over-class party) is a great example of this. They spend our money on bull shit like there's no tommorrow and try and oppress those who oppose them. They suck at social justice. (We are a Christian Nation yet we treat our poor and powerless like shit by cutting funding to important social programs and education). And they are great at filling their own pockets and the pockets of their masters with our hard earned tax dollars. This all goes against the saying "they will know we are Christian by our love".\n\nThe left wingers don't want people telling them how to live or what kind of choices they can make. BUT there are some things that shouldn't happen like a federal recongized homosexual marriage. The people need to vote on stuff like that. There are so many more important social and legal issues that need to be fixed before jumping onto a sword like that! \n\nIt all comes down to money and power. Right wingers leaders lie just as well if not better than left wingers. Don't let the left or right wing control your mind. Don't use these "Words" to lable yourself or others because these words are not used for what they mean. \n\nEducate yourself on the issues not by Watching FOX NEWS or CNN but by opening up a book and your mind.
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a side=right wing and b side-left wing
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By saying  rafical, did you mean laughable? If so, I'll go with that one. If you mean radical, that's taken by the left. I think ultra-conservative is about as far right as you can go. If you mean just left (I know people hate that word) of ultra-conservative, you'd be conservative.
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In normal non-regional terms it means toward a private enterprise almost fascist type governmant as opposed to the left winfg which is socialist almost communist type of public ownership government.\nIt comes from the French Revolution where Socialist Republicans stood on the left of the Parliament and Monarchic Loyalists stood on the right.
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First to the "RIGHT":  To stabilize the mighty power \nof potentates - with potency, force and violence.\n\nThen to the "LEFT":  Human dignity and reciprocalness \nin economic concerns is their first postulate.\n\nNote: Marx was NO "LEFT" at all, Marx and his followers \nare the most extreme "RIGHT". He desired the most \nextensive capitalism of all, the capitalism of the \nauthoritarian state.
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First of all, I'd say that Communism would be considered a radical form of the left party, not The left party. The term left party generally consists of liberals with more moderate views than communists.  Anyway, the term originates from the French Revolution, when liberal deputies from the Third Estate generally sat to the left of the president's chair, a habit which began in the Estates General of 1789. The nobility, members of the Second Estate, generally sat to the right.  So, this is where the terms "left" and "right" come from.
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No, the left doesn't have any definable core. No, they can't cut loose the fringe because the "fringe" is the only part of the left that still supports the looney agenda of liberals.