The left stood for a social agenda and the right for the individual’s needs. Now politics is self-serving
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.et ready for it — we are going to be scared into believing there is a huge rise in the ultra-right and left-wing fascists in Europe and the world over unless the voters come out in their numbers to support mainstream parties.
It got me thinking about how easily we accept these labels of ultra-right wing, ultra-left and populist. It does not make one better than the other but, over time and history, there have been wars and conquests, where some people were treated differently to others, and no single society has been equal. Therefore, for dignity to exist, we have to be constantly vigilant of our own prejudices based on the centuries of systemic and structural inequality.
The difficulty with and complexity of postmodern politics is that whereas before it was about right-wing and left-wing, where left-wing was a more social agenda based on the will of the poor for representation, and right-wing was more about the needs of the individual and business, today the distinction is not that neat.
Essentially we have lost faith and confidence in the institutions established by democracy that are supposed to serve our needs. The right and left wing have been replaced by establishment and anti-establishment parties. Over the past 20 years, each time a political candidate has sounded as if they wanted to take on the establishment, they have been cheered and received huge amounts of support.
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