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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I don't think they have Right and Left wing concepts there, the more so in Saudi Arabia that has a very conservative (small 'c' and true meaning) society ruled by the Royal Family and a background of shadowy hard-line clerics.
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
@ArishMell nope. Right and left are universal. Politics is global, now. Denial is Murkan.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Roundandroundwego Obviouly "politics" is global: it refers generally to how nations are administrated.
The Muslim nations' politics are largely led by clerics on religious lines, and such regimes don't easily fit the American or European, secular, Right-Left model.
You accuse Americans of "denial", but denying what? The USA seems very sharply, even bitterly, divided on political right-left grounds, although its R-L spectrum appears generally to the right of the European one.
The Muslim nations' politics are largely led by clerics on religious lines, and such regimes don't easily fit the American or European, secular, Right-Left model.
You accuse Americans of "denial", but denying what? The USA seems very sharply, even bitterly, divided on political right-left grounds, although its R-L spectrum appears generally to the right of the European one.
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
I'm guessing it's not easy to get traction in places that have been so important to the USA. The population, for example, backs Palestine, while the ownership class is pro Zionist.