Far Left/Far Right

[barry1010]

Can anyone list the typical characteristics that define people as far right and far left?
Thanks

[bobbinwales]

They are often very similar...state control

[MissTerious2]

Agree Bobbin.

[andy-hughes]

Far Left people think everyone must be seen to 'care' as much as they do, bathed in the glow of self-righteousness.

Far Right people are stratospherically self-centered, and if anyone has less than them, it's entirely their own fault for being shiftless and workshy.

[anneasquith]

Neither see them recognise themselves as FR or FL . !!!

[Rosetta]

Both similarly have the inability to see, or credit, any arguements/opinions other than their own, and the tendency to ram it down the throats of others. Nor do they see nuances in opinions, its always black or white

[wolf63]

Unbalanced - in their view everything is black or white. Life should be a balance of ideas and concepts. There is good and bad in all political parties, it is not good to obsessively think one party is good and the rest are bad.

[ToraToraTora]

The left think the world owes everyone a living, the right think everyone should support themselves.

[rowanwitch]

You could compare Hitler. Far right and Stalin far left... It's a very difficult game of spot the difference. It's more like a circle with left and right sides. Pick a point where the two merge into a centre view and look to the opposite side and you will see them complete the circle while claiming they are opposites in their extremism. The points at right angles to that axis are probably where the differences are clearer.

[Atheist]

Lovely juxtaposition in the two previous posts!

[jno]

it depends which side of King Louis XVI you sit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_political_spectrum

[Atheist]

....previous to rowan's post, that is!

[rowanwitch]

I heard it described once as the left...We have rights....the right we have responsibilities. Not the responsibility to carry non contributing members but the taking of responsibility for how your own life and that of your family pans out. For the left the welfare state is an everpresent, for the right a safety net for short term support until you can stand on your own feet again.

[gulliver1]

The Left are the working class who work for a living just to survive.... And pay there taxes
The right are usually the rich, who do very little work and avoid paying tax themselves ,But spend the Tax payers money on themselves or their Cronies .

[ichkeria]

Rubbish to the above @ 12.24 :-)

Looking at it from the point of view of a particular case in point:
Ask Corbyn what he thinks of Putin and he’ll say “ooh very bad man. Awfully bad man. Shocking.”
But then move on swiftly to talk about how awful NATO and the West are.
Ask someone in the far right and they may say they admire Putin for standing up against the same sort of things they hate.
So as a ludicrous generalisation I’d say the far left is hidebound by ideology and the far right by individual causes.
Tho there is much overlap

It’s really nothing to do with class.

[MissTerious2]

Huxley had it right with Animal Farm!

[rowanwitch]

Not any more, I would suggest the hard core now are the long term unemployed, and those from areas that lost their main industries for example coal mining and steel. The low paid. The comfortably off who feel they have to prove they have a social conscience 'the Islington and Hackney type's though Workers with aspirations to do better are closer to the conservatives these days, although they were comfortable with Blair's version, the lurch back to the left worried them.

[gulliver1]

"Rubbish to the post above at" 12.34
......It's everything to do with class.....

[naomi24]

So which class is which, Gulliver?

[ichkeria]

Re read your post -at 12.24 gulliver.

The only connection with “class” is that economically hard up folk may be drawn to extreme political viewpoints.

Otherwise I don’t suppose you really think that politicians and voters of the far are all working class and that those on the far right are all wealthy members of society. The latter idea is particularly wrong

[ToraToraTora]

Misterious: "Huxley had it right with Animal Farm! " - Huxley? Right oh!