What “progress” is Machado seeking? She wants the country to go back to how it was before Chavez. That makes her “regressive”. So, which hand is that, on your political spectrum?
That’s not the modern definition of “left wing”. But, even if you apply that definition, she still qualifies as a conservative because she wants to return to the old system of government, that existed before Chavez. That’s not “progress”…it’s “regression”.
And authoritarianism, is a completely separate metric to that political classification system. Any government, regardless of whether you consider them progressive or conservative, can be authoritarian or not. You can have a perfectly functional democracy, with both progressive and conservative ideas taking part in the process. This cooperation is actually considered essential to a healthy democracy.
Authoritarianism is when one side or the other decides they no longer respect the will of the people, and choose to assert their agenda by force or coercion. That can just as easily be used to enforce change, as it is to prevent it.
I think at a certain point we have to agree that the objective right or left is based on the current position of the sovereign nation in question. Progress to be made here is different than progress to be made there, things we have they don’t, etc.
Left is Progress
Right is Conservative
Autocracies will always be a regression into our past and take us away from the path to a better future.
What “progress” is Machado seeking? She wants the country to go back to how it was before Chavez. That makes her “regressive”. So, which hand is that, on your political spectrum?
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And? She’s going to give him her peace prize, in the hopes that he will put her in charge of the country. But, he’s already said he’s not going to.
Thats what I said.
You also said she was a left-wing. That’s what we were talking about.
She is left wing, her leading Venezuela would be progress out of the authoritarianism of Maduro’s regime.
That’s not the modern definition of “left wing”. But, even if you apply that definition, she still qualifies as a conservative because she wants to return to the old system of government, that existed before Chavez. That’s not “progress”…it’s “regression”.
And authoritarianism, is a completely separate metric to that political classification system. Any government, regardless of whether you consider them progressive or conservative, can be authoritarian or not. You can have a perfectly functional democracy, with both progressive and conservative ideas taking part in the process. This cooperation is actually considered essential to a healthy democracy.
Authoritarianism is when one side or the other decides they no longer respect the will of the people, and choose to assert their agenda by force or coercion. That can just as easily be used to enforce change, as it is to prevent it.
I think at a certain point we have to agree that the objective right or left is based on the current position of the sovereign nation in question. Progress to be made here is different than progress to be made there, things we have they don’t, etc.
Tell me your PoliSci education ended with 101 without telling me it ended with 101
You don’t have any response other than ad hominem