> Again, in relation to what? It's the right, as according to current American politics because that's the context.
The world. Historical American politics. A larger context. I'm repeating myself and you're ignoring it. Please stop asking questions that have already been answered. If you have objections to using a larger context, state them, but don't pretend I didn't answer your question already.
> Things would be different still if we went back to the Civil War or Ancient Greece.
Yes. You can pick specific contexts in which the modern american republican party was downright progressive. But you have to cherrypick those contexts, as you just did. Saying "world politics today" is a fairly objective measure, is it not? I mean there are even parties in Europe that are right-of-the-Republicans, so it isn't as though they're the furthest right. It's just that the Europeans call those parties fascist, and in some cases the parties embrace that label. Here people get annoyed when you do that.
> I'm not, I'm asking simple questions that go unanswered. The only reasoning I received was that you want people to recognize a shift. But since you claimed that the shift was being "ignored" as marketing and propaganda, isn't highlighting that shift effectively the same?
You're still ignoring it, and we're still discussing semantics, not politics. Do you want to have a productive conversation, or do you want to keep avoiding discussion of actual policies?
> I find it more so actually since politics changed naturally so it's the activist position to claim what the parties "really" are based on a selection from the past.
I can't parse this.
> And immigration refers to people, not trade. Clinton made this speech [1] in 1995, but if any Democrat made the same speech today they would be vilified. That shows the left hasn't shifted to the right at all, they shifted even more to the left.
This is the first time you said the word "immigration". I'm done.
The world. Historical American politics. A larger context. I'm repeating myself and you're ignoring it. Please stop asking questions that have already been answered. If you have objections to using a larger context, state them, but don't pretend I didn't answer your question already.
> Things would be different still if we went back to the Civil War or Ancient Greece.
Yes. You can pick specific contexts in which the modern american republican party was downright progressive. But you have to cherrypick those contexts, as you just did. Saying "world politics today" is a fairly objective measure, is it not? I mean there are even parties in Europe that are right-of-the-Republicans, so it isn't as though they're the furthest right. It's just that the Europeans call those parties fascist, and in some cases the parties embrace that label. Here people get annoyed when you do that.
> I'm not, I'm asking simple questions that go unanswered. The only reasoning I received was that you want people to recognize a shift. But since you claimed that the shift was being "ignored" as marketing and propaganda, isn't highlighting that shift effectively the same?
You're still ignoring it, and we're still discussing semantics, not politics. Do you want to have a productive conversation, or do you want to keep avoiding discussion of actual policies?
> I find it more so actually since politics changed naturally so it's the activist position to claim what the parties "really" are based on a selection from the past.
I can't parse this.
> And immigration refers to people, not trade. Clinton made this speech [1] in 1995, but if any Democrat made the same speech today they would be vilified. That shows the left hasn't shifted to the right at all, they shifted even more to the left.
This is the first time you said the word "immigration". I'm done.