🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 on Nostr: npub1p34kn…jwdy6 I would say that you being in the thick of the forest your sight ...

npub1p34kn5su0fzjmsqx7wegqftnd34xr7as808udkxyltcl9zw6jrqqajwdy6 (npub1p34…wdy6) I would say that you being in the thick of the forest your sight is blinded by the trees. As for selective eye sight, we all suffer from that. No exceptions to that rule.

I would argue quite the opposite. As someone who has spent his whole live living around the world, often moving from country to country every half a year or year or so… someone who has experienced, been a resident, dealt witht he healthcare and the taxes and almost every aspect of living, and done this in a vast array of different countries in different regions… if anything this gives a perspective outside “the forest” and makes my eyesight less selective.

In fact I’d say you, as someone I presume has mostly only ever lived in one country (or one region like europe) and has only ever heard one countries echo chamber and lived it… you ont eh other hand are more likely to be stuck int he forrest with selective vision so to speak.

That said im not saying I have no bias, clearly i have plenty, just as we all do. What I am saying is that of the two of us, given our expiernce, I am less likely to be indoctrinated to this stuff. No, I don’t think to be left you have to be anti large company. I would suggest not being anti large company is a common feature for the right though.

Something being a common property of the left or the right does not make it a proper of the left or the right, nor does beleiving it change where you are on the scale.

Generally the right is older and the left is younger. That doesnt mean I can argue that two people with identical opinions on policy the younger one leans more left than the older one.

I think you are confusing the DNC and GOP with left vs right. There are quite a few things people on either side tend to sharein common that has nothing to do with defining that side. I would say being in favor of corporate government enforced monopolies is a strong indication you are pretty far right wing.

I know what monopolies are… I know how lack of monopoly laws has a tendency to result in monopolies forming… but how do you “enforce monopolies” I have never heard of someone in the GOP actively forcing the creation of a monopoly by .. what… forcing smaller companies to merge until they become a monopoly…. I dont even know what this means.

That said I do agree that the left will generally be anti-monopoly, and the right tends to not care so much about monopolies. But just to be clear a monopoly is not a large company, and even when companies become megalarge that doesnt necceseraly mean its a monopoly. A monopoly is only tangentally related to the size of the company. I would also argue that ‘unregulated businesses is not a right wing position

Yes. Loosely speaking i would say the right is about individual/entity freedom, and the left focuses on collective welfare. This generally means the right prefers to put as few limitations on people and businesses as possible (unregulated) while the left usually forces (regulates) the individual to act for the greater good even if it harms them as an individual to do so. The right loves mountains of regulations that support their major donors, and inhibit competition.

Not really. I mean yea they are corrupt just like the democrats and will take pay to do things that help their corperate buddies, sure.. this is corruption and its on both sides. But in terms of policy they tend to be far less heavy on regulating their donors competition than the democrats would be willing to. That privatize profits, while socializing costs like pollution.

Witht he right focusing on individual freedoms and the left focusing on collective welfare then yea. Naturally the right is going to care more about an individuals right to do things that may cause pollution than they will care about the pollution, I’d agree with that.

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