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Throughout history political thought seems to follow a pattern of one extreme replacing another extreme. The obvious and recent example is the radical leftism in America that has existed for the past several years being replaced with strong conservatism in this election. It seems like we lean in one direction until we reach a tipping point and go to far (BLM, 4th wave feminism, social justice) which leaves us rushing back in the other direction until we (presumably) go to far again and the cycle repeats.
Is "reactionary politics" the correct term for this? Is there a better way to describe this? Is there even any truth to this?
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>>1986963
>radical leftism in America that has existed for the past several years
good one
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>>1986963
>The obvious and recent example is the radical leftism in America that has existed for the past several years
t. /pol/ babby
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>>1986963
The US is a right wing country, whether its Democrats or Republicans in power. It only changes between center-right and far right.
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>>1986996
It's pointing out how your example is trash.
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>>1986963
The US has always been super liberal and always will be. Modern conservatism and liberalism are both just different forms of classical liberalism. But Americans are so short-sighted that they think their measly two (2) political parties are actually significantly different.
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>>1987000
Not an argument
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>>1987001
That's a good point I often think of American liberalism and conservatism as opposites but the spectrum of political theory is obviously much more diverse and the two are not much different in the larger scope.
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>>1987000
Maybe my example was bad. I don't claim to be knowledgeable about politics I just wanted to discuss a thought.
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>>1987010
Sadly its really easy to forget this in modern times because American-brand imperialism has lead to the classical liberalism ideology spreading like wildfire. Now there is nothing left in the world but capitalist, federal republics. America is very self-righteous too, and believes it has some sort of moral obligation to suppress other ideologies it sees as "evil." See: the cold war. Wether or not you agree with socialsm, you have to admit the American reaction to it was a bit ridiculous. And its not just socialism. Americans fear anything that isn't classical liberalism
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>radical leftism in america
Sometimes i want to live in this right wing fantasy word where obama is a communist and socialism is stablished in the us.
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>>1987041
I guess I was speaking more about the values of society and less about actual policy when I wrote that. I see that I exaggerated now.
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>>1987051
And one election doesn't radically change the viewpoints of a population. Ex: slavery didn't suddenly become an issue because of Lincoln
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