Politics left and right?
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You would get the EU Parliament.
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"Left" is generally for progressive social change usually through state support for reduction of poverty and inequality \n\n"Right" is generally for the status quo and maintenance of existing rights and privileges\n\nThe 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. It is still the tradition in the French Assemblée Nationale for the representatives to be seated left-to-right (relative to the Assemblée president) according to their political alignment.
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Im a member of the Labour Party in the UK and consider myslef to be left-wing. I am what is called a Social Democrat. My perfect politics are the ones that Scandinavian countries generally use.\n\nHigh Tax, Universal Healthcare, Good public transport, universal education, meritocratic, democratic, progressive, universal benefits, equal/civil rights - that kind of thing
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If you are in the States, I believe you mean the Democrats.  Liberal is a political standpoint, like conservative.  Republican & Democrat are actually political parties.
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Neither really.  It all depends on your point of view. \n\nInfact, I think it's personally detrimental to label yourself as either.  Because once you do that, you ascribe to yourself a set of beliefs that fall within either the left or right of the political spectrum.  If people are so shallow and weak minded that they need a one word answer to fully describe their political ideas, good on them.\n\nI myself refuse to say either, since I have some ideas that are obviously liberal, and some that are obviously conservative.
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Democrat = Left leaning\nCommunist = Left leaning\nSocialist = Left leaning\n\nIt becomes clear that while all three would like to sky rocket taxation, they themselves would like to remain exempt.  Detestable
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I hope so. There are decent moderate people on both sides of the aisle. We've had to deal with the extremes (left and right) for too long. It'd be nice to have someone in the middle. Very few Americans are on the fringes like most of our choices have been lately.
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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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on the left hand side
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conservative on: pro-support for war in irag/iran, pro-confederate battle flag, pro-get the metal storm into production.\n\nliberal on pro-choice, pro-give land back to Indians (at least some of it), pro-clean up the nuclear dump sites, pro-environmentalist, pro-affirmative action
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i start in right ... \n\nbut saw some said left ...so i dont know why if its right or left ...
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You;re probably neither, party politics never really fits snuggly with one's personal beliefs. Obviously im in the UK so its different parties but i believe the principal is the same, i vote Liberal but i do not agree with everything they say, its just as a previous answerer said its about chosing the lesser of the evils for yourself.
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Repubublican is right wing i.e. Conservative and the Democrats are more left wing i.e.Labour
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ermm  introduce it to lefty and righty?
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Thing of political views as a strait line. To the most left is Communism. To the most right is Nazi-ism. A left wing is a democrat and leans more towards Communist views (all people are equal, the government takes care of everyone). The right wing is Republicans and they lean more towards Nazi-ism (strong, powerful government, the people care for themselves). \n\nIf you numbered the line 1-100, 1 being Communism and 100 being Nazi-ism, a Democrat would most likely be around a 45-49. A Republican would be around 51-55. \n\nSome Democrats would be lower numbers. Like Hillary Clinton or John Kerry would be around 35-40. Some republicans, like Rush Limbaugh, would be arounf a 60-65. \n\nI hope this helps.
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The Democrat Party has been taken over by the Left Wing.\nTheir goal is a socialist/communist nation.
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There is nothing wrond with being liberal, its the opposite of conservative...  Liberal covers the entire left side of the political spectrum - it's generic for people who believe in individualism, freedom, equality, the social contract and rational evidence-based (as opposed to morality-based) public policy but often disagree on the application of these principles.