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Thread ID: 12724 | Posts: 4 | Started: 2004-03-13
2004-03-13 00:21 | User Profile
For entertainment purposes mainly...
[url=http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-25.html]Sectors of the US Right - circa 2000[/url] from [url]www.publiceye.org[/url] (Leftists)
There is much overlap and sectors are not mutually exclusive. Populist, apocalyptic, and conspiracist styles can be found in several sectors. Methodologies range from cautious moderation, to activism, to insurgency, to violence. Forms of oppression-racism, sexism, homophobia, antisemitism-vary in each sector.
[u]Secular Right[/u]
Corporate Internationalists - Nations should control the flow of people across borders, but not the flow of goods, capital, and profit. Sometimes called the "Rockefeller Republicans." Globalists.
Business Nationalists - Multinational corporations erode national sovereignty; nations should enforce borders for people, but also for goods, capital, and profit through trade restrictions. Enlists grassroots allies among Regressive Populists. Anti-Globalists.
Economic Libertarians - The state disrupts the perfect harmony of the free market system. Modern democracy is essentially congruent with capitalism.
National Security Militarists - Support US military supremacy and unilateral use of force to protect US national security interests around the world. A major component of Cold War anti-communism.
Neoconservatives - The egalitarian social liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s undermined the national consensus. Intellectual oligarchies and political institutions preserve democracy from mob rule.
[u]Christian Right[/u]
Christian Nationalists - Biblically-defined immorality and sin breed chaos and anarchy. America's greatness as God's chosen land has been undermined by liberal secular humanists, feminists, and homosexuals. Purists want litmus tests for issues of abortion, tolerance of gays and lesbians, and prayer in schools. Includes some non-Christian cultural conservatives. Overlaps somewhat with Christian theocracy.
[u]Hard Right[/u]
Christian Theocrats - Christian men are ordained by God to run society. Eurocentric version of Christianity based on early Calvinism. Intrinsically Christian ethnocentric, treating non-Christians as second-class citizens. Implicitly antisemitic. Includes soft dominionists and hardline Reconstructionists.
[u]Xenophobic Right[/u]
Paleoconservatives - Ultra-conservatives and reactionaries. Natural financial oligarchies preserve the republic against democratic mob rule. Usually nativist (White Racial Nationalist), sometimes antisemitic or Christian nationalist. Elitist emphasis is similar to the intellectual conservative revolutionary wing of the European New Right. Often libertarian.
Regressive Populist Patriots - Secret elites control the government and banks. The government plans repression to enforce elite rule or global collectivism. The patriot and armed militia movements are one response from this sector. Americanist. Often supports Business Nationalism due to its isolationist emphasis. Anti-Globalists, yet support non-interventionist national security militarism.
White Nationalists - Alien cultures make democracy impossible. Cultural Supremacists argue different races can adopt the dominant (White) culture; Biological Racists argue the immutable integrity of culture, race, and nation. Segregationists want distinct enclaves, Separatists want distinct nations. Americanist. Tribalist emphasis is similar to the race-is-nation wing of the European New Right.
Far Right - Militant forms of revolutionary right ideology and separatist ethnocentric nationalism. Reject pluralist democracy for an organic oligarchy that unites the homogeneic nation. Conspiracist views of power that are overwhelmingly antisemitic. Home to overt fascists and neonazis.
2004-03-13 02:19 | User Profile
On a similar note, re: the right wing of the American political spectrum:
Sol Silversteinwitzbergfeldrosenbloomnik, the head of the local chapter of Citizens Against Super-Evil White Racism and Hate, says that the biggest threat to our multicultural democracy [tm, the Jewish community] is "Hate" and "Racism" coming from The Far Right. Do ya think so? Do ya?
2004-03-13 05:38 | User Profile
Interesting delineation of "Rightists", Tex.
Odd to recall the shaky anti-Clinton alliance that was in effect among 'em at the time the list was drawn up.
Think "Free Republic", 1999. Hell, even Limbaugh & Art Bell were occasionally on-target in that musty age. :whlch:
2004-03-13 22:34 | User Profile
I guess everybody to the Left of these would be, er, COMMUNISTS?!?
:yawn: