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The Definition of Left, Liberal, Right, ain't right...

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I keep hearing americans, especially in recent years, since Trump took office, misusing such terms, and i'm gradually seeing others across the world following suit like good little ventriloquist dummies with Uncle Sam's hand shoved so far up their backsides that it tickles their tonsils.  It is a thoroughly americocentric or eurocentric definition, and illustrates the shift of both the left and right to the right in the west.  Something like marching left-right, left-right, on the right-side of the road.  So allow me to clarify...    1. Left is - where the people own all the means of production, have full and free elections, can through referendums throw out a government anytime, and the government itself is more of an administrative body rather than a 'ruling' one.  It's only restriction is that capitalism cannot be reinstated as freedom cannot make allowance for the return of slavery.   Supporting LGBT, Eurofeminism, etc, is not necessarily a p...

Race Religion Politics Wealth, in brief

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Makavelli  (on facebook) : We are all humans until... Race disconnected us, Religion separated us, Politics divided us, And wealth classified us. ed : Race didn't disconnect us, it gave us the opportunity to have different experiences and share it. Religion didn't separate us, it gave us different ideas that, when joined, forms a beautiful whole. Politics didn't divide us, it just distinguished between the ignorant or self-abosorbed and those who weren't. Wealth didn't classify us, its disproportionate distribution did. It is not in avoiding the above that we become human, but in realising and resolving it.  Navigate wisely and with empathy through such division, and it will deliver your multiplication. e X