Wonderful article, dear Barbara. Right parties aren't equal, right people aren't equal. I cannot imagine to comparate Angela Merkel and Giorgia Meloni, for example, or Tory party and Vox. Unfortunately in Italy we have a radical right party as Fdi that is masked as a democratic party and people believe them. I'm really worried for our democracy, they luckily cannot change costitution without opposition. A big hug from Antonella and me!
Thank you, Barbara, for this new article: it was a pleasant and - as always - interesting read. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the Frontline Club in London. I hope there will be the opportunity to meet you in Italy soon (I know you were in Ferrara some days ago). In the meantime: I look forward to your next newsletter. Best wishes and... I love "reading" from you (quote ⬆️ )
Thank you for this. I agree that language is important, especially if you hope to engage with people who may be attracted to such ideas but might not understand why they are a problem (such as people attracted to Trump style populism) and right leaning people who use the easy complaint of being demonized because the “mainstream media” are using lazy, headline grabbing language. I see the same thing with the gun control debate over here. News so often flattens the subtleties which are as important in language as the broad strokes.
Thanks Barbara, I'm guilty on all counts of using those terms incorrectly, thanks for clearing them up. Perhaps you could go the whole hog and write the definitive guide for the party spectrum from left to right. Maybe I'm wrong but left and right parties are as scarce as hens teeth and centre parties are often non-existent nowadays. It's always extreme this and extreme that like a nomenclature stick that is used to bash your political counterpart and put him in an idealogical case where he/she can be bashed. If I'm on the right then railway workers on strike are militant leftwingers. Jeremy Corban was an extreme leftie hate figure even though he had a lot of very good polices. There is a push to the right in all parties in Britain and elsewhere. The vacant spot of left parties has been taken over by the greens. At the same time in the USA the Democrats are considered let wing by the Republicans only because the are a little bit more left than the Republicans What a joke . In many countries gone are the left (labour, socialist), centre (social democrats etc.) and conservative parties which are now replaced by the Greens on the left the Socialists in the centre and an awful lot of parties on the right spectrum. I think in Switzerland the party spectrum still exists more of less.
Wonderful article, dear Barbara. Right parties aren't equal, right people aren't equal. I cannot imagine to comparate Angela Merkel and Giorgia Meloni, for example, or Tory party and Vox. Unfortunately in Italy we have a radical right party as Fdi that is masked as a democratic party and people believe them. I'm really worried for our democracy, they luckily cannot change costitution without opposition. A big hug from Antonella and me!
Thank you, Barbara, for this new article: it was a pleasant and - as always - interesting read. I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the Frontline Club in London. I hope there will be the opportunity to meet you in Italy soon (I know you were in Ferrara some days ago). In the meantime: I look forward to your next newsletter. Best wishes and... I love "reading" from you (quote ⬆️ )
Thank you for another excellent article!
We had the National Party in South Africa who were classified as Right-wing (1914 - 1948), Far-right (1948 - 1990) and Centre-right (1990 - 1997).
The extraordinary irony is that they were 'wrong' in all they did, yet their Political position included the term 'right'.
Thank you also for introducing me to the term 'nativist'!
Thank you for this. I agree that language is important, especially if you hope to engage with people who may be attracted to such ideas but might not understand why they are a problem (such as people attracted to Trump style populism) and right leaning people who use the easy complaint of being demonized because the “mainstream media” are using lazy, headline grabbing language. I see the same thing with the gun control debate over here. News so often flattens the subtleties which are as important in language as the broad strokes.
Thanks Barbara, I'm guilty on all counts of using those terms incorrectly, thanks for clearing them up. Perhaps you could go the whole hog and write the definitive guide for the party spectrum from left to right. Maybe I'm wrong but left and right parties are as scarce as hens teeth and centre parties are often non-existent nowadays. It's always extreme this and extreme that like a nomenclature stick that is used to bash your political counterpart and put him in an idealogical case where he/she can be bashed. If I'm on the right then railway workers on strike are militant leftwingers. Jeremy Corban was an extreme leftie hate figure even though he had a lot of very good polices. There is a push to the right in all parties in Britain and elsewhere. The vacant spot of left parties has been taken over by the greens. At the same time in the USA the Democrats are considered let wing by the Republicans only because the are a little bit more left than the Republicans What a joke . In many countries gone are the left (labour, socialist), centre (social democrats etc.) and conservative parties which are now replaced by the Greens on the left the Socialists in the centre and an awful lot of parties on the right spectrum. I think in Switzerland the party spectrum still exists more of less.