People do care what you call yourself politically It just depends in which direction you are politically. Yeah sure they don't care if you call yourself a communist or a socialist or a Marxist because those are acceptable beliefs but they absolutely care if you call yourself right wing because anybody is who's right wing is described as far right and all the things that come with that. It's only acceptable in one direction in the UK It is absolutely not acceptable to be anything other than left-wing liberal and even better if you're a socialist or a communist in the UK. I also think that the UK population is a bit dumber than the US in terms of understanding poltics because a vast majority have the same politics. Even the conservatives in this country are realtively left wing compared to history. It sounds counterintuitive but you can see it in online discourse in videos on UA-cam about economics and about politics that the British population at least online do not understand the political system in the West, they couldn't describe left-wing and right-wing if you asked them, they might call themselves socialist or whatever but they don't really understand what the opposite of that is, they might just think that something is good or it's bad and if someone isnt good(believe the current polical thing) then they must be bad
I have never nodded along to a podcast as hard as that one.
Thank you for discussing stuff that brings my mates to silence.
Really good.. thank you!
Great guest, and a great chat.
People do care what you call yourself politically It just depends in which direction you are politically. Yeah sure they don't care if you call yourself a communist or a socialist or a Marxist because those are acceptable beliefs but they absolutely care if you call yourself right wing because anybody is who's right wing is described as far right and all the things that come with that. It's only acceptable in one direction in the UK It is absolutely not acceptable to be anything other than left-wing liberal and even better if you're a socialist or a communist in the UK.
I also think that the UK population is a bit dumber than the US in terms of understanding poltics because a vast majority have the same politics. Even the conservatives in this country are realtively left wing compared to history. It sounds counterintuitive but you can see it in online discourse in videos on UA-cam about economics and about politics that the British population at least online do not understand the political system in the West, they couldn't describe left-wing and right-wing if you asked them, they might call themselves socialist or whatever but they don't really understand what the opposite of that is, they might just think that something is good or it's bad and if someone isnt good(believe the current polical thing) then they must be bad
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