Matthew:
In specifics, ie exactly how the economy is regulated, exactly what is banned and what isn’t, who the scapegoats are (nazis used Jews whereas Henry 8th era statists used catholics, masons and… jews)… otherwise, they basically are the same. They are oligarchies led by a cabal of absolute leaders who are above reproach by the common citizen.
You are correct, no true right wing state has ever existed for any extended period of time, just extremely short ones (the 3 I mentioned which you must have missed). The right wing Ideal doesn’t lend itself to existing very long, because the absense of concentrated power creates a power vacuum, and there are always people trying to fill that vacuum. Nature hates a vacuum.
Australia and the U.S are both generally centrist. The specifics, once again, are different. Australia has looser drug laws while stricter gun laws than the united states. Australia is further left then the U.S, but both are centrist states relative to the rest of the world.
The definition I put forth is the only one that works. All other definitions of right and left wing are so vague as to be meaningless. You say racism is right wing, but like I said there are leftists that are just as racist as the nazis. You defend your charge by saying that only right wing movements have platforms based in racism, but that’s complete trollop. The KKK was created by democrats (Jim Crow was definitely advanced by left wing members of the U.S congress, such as the currently serving democratic representative Robert Byrd who was formerly a member of the Klan; at the time it wasn’t described in left-right terms because, like I already stated, no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on race; it just happened that it was mostly leftists who opposed the civil rights movement and republicans that supported it). The nation of Islam and the black panthers were intrinsically racist but left wing movements. Bush is apparently right wing while Obama is apparently left wing, yet they both support the war in Afghanistan (Obama even supports extending it to Pakistan and Yemen, so he must be right wing, right?), they both oppose gay marriage, they both support the war on drugs. I’m not seeing much difference here! Bush trampled individual rights, yet somehow he is conservative/right wing? Bullshit. Obama and Bush, like Nazism and Communism, are two sides of the same coin.
To people like you, “right wingers” are anyone who opposes your specifically preferred version of tyranny
