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This is an in-your-face example of right-wing thinking, and perhaps even applied right-wing politics too

http://www.thenerdreich.com/unhumans-jd-vance-and-the-language-of-genocide

Both of these toxic dudes participated in a CPAC gab-fest. CPAC quite openly calls itself right-wing. Rod Dreher is a friend of Vance. He is consistently hostile to anything regarded as left-wing.

Dreher used to be a columnist at the American Conservative which quite openly describes itself as right-wing.

The very popular author Paul Kingsnorth quite openly promotes the idea that it is the "left" which is the cause of most of our troubles.

Check out this reference too.

http://opentabernacle.wordpress.com/2024/09/02/opus-deis-influence-on-project-2025

You cant get much more right-wing than Opus Dei. Check out two books

Opus by Gareth Gore

Stench by David Brock.

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Perhaps its the other way round.

In the US (in particular) there is a completely irrational hatred/dislike/suspicion of any and everything that is supposedly left wing. Those on the right side of the culture wars openly, and even aggressively identify themselves as right wingers. TV is mostly dominated by outfits which openly describe themselves as right wing. How else could you possibly describe Fox (faux) "news'

and Truth Social.

A similar situation exists here in Australia where the Murdoch media controls most of the traditional print media and much of TV too openly identifies itself as right wing. Anything mildly left-wing is instantaneously derided.

In his book The Master & His Emissary Iain McGilchrist points out that most/all of Western culture is patterned and controlled by left-brained thinking which, by the way has nothing to do with left wing politics.

Left brained thinking instantaneously objectifies any and every thing. It is thus primarily about power and control which is of course characteristically masculine in its nature. It cuts off or shuts down the Living Spirit and thus destroys the indivisible patterns of relationships in and as which we are all instantaneously inter-connected.

Right brained thinking which is essentially feminine in its nature is based on the understanding/recognition that this is a psycho-physical world in which everyone and everything is indivisibly inter-connected at a deep feeling level prior to the conceits/constructs of the left brain.

Remember too that the Latin word for left is SINISTER. Witches were and are regarded as being sinister, in league with the "devil" as it were. Hence the European Witch burnings and the Medieaval book The Hammer of Witches.

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