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I'm A Fan of Jan Peter! | 31 comments (31 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Interesting, I never thought to use "right-wing" as a gradation - e.g. I use centre-right -- hard right -- far/extreme right as gradations, right, rightish or right-wing as overall term.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 08:43:35 AM EST
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Re: Centre-right... (none / 0)

Maybe i should, too, to avoid confusion :)

by koenzel (koen@vanschie.net) on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 10:34:02 AM EST
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Ah... (4.00 / 2)

Hence the confusion. I understand now. Perhaps it's just my mistake, but on the American blogs, right-wing is used generally to describe the far-right of the Republican Party. I think I better stick to your definition, though. Of course, this doesn't help to solve the relativity within the terminology: what is far-right in one country is considered only centre-right in others...

by Nomad on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 10:59:13 AM EST
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Re: Ah... (4.00 / 3)

Hihi :)

I think only Geert Wilders would find himself at home in the Republican party, the rest of the parties would call themselve Democrats in the US.

by koenzel (koen@vanschie.net) on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 11:24:47 AM EST
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Re: Ah... (4.00 / 3)

Which is why the fact that someone is a Democrat is no cause for comfort.

tens of millions of people stand to see their lives ruined because the bureaucrats at the ECB don't understand introductory economics -- Dean Baker

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 11:39:09 AM EST
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Well.. (none / 0)

I'd imagine the SGP would fit in there as well :-) Not the ChristenUnie, though, they're far too socially-minded.

by Frank (wijsneus-aht-gmail-doht-com) on Wed Nov 23rd, 2005 at 04:07:20 AM EST
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My thoughts exactly! (none / 0)

Spot on. If Pat Robertson and the sorts would create their own party, he could practically copy the SGP's political agenda point for point.

by Nomad on Wed Nov 23rd, 2005 at 05:52:23 AM EST
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Re: Well.. (none / 0)

The SGP is only very conservative on social issues. But they do care about the enviroment and people, as god's children have received dominion over the earth and have to care for it.

But you're right, I forgot the SGP.

by koenzel (koen@vanschie.net) on Wed Nov 23rd, 2005 at 05:55:57 AM EST
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Re: Ah... (none / 1)

I am not sure either that my usage is the correct one - it may only come from erroneous equation with a similar term in Hungarian. But maybe on US blogs, "right-winger" can be such a curse-word due to the general dualist polarization of politics - even in the case of centrists: for them, "leftist" and "right-winger" are two 'extremes' equally bad, there is no PFL-VVD-Christ Democrats-D66-Labour-Greens-Socialists spectrum to consider.

(Hallo hello Americans lurking out there: can you resolve this issue for us? :-) )

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Nov 22nd, 2005 at 01:58:11 PM EST
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