Realpolitik isn't an ideology, just a mean to an end.
I am anti left - AMA
Nicholas Jenkins
Joshua Perry
You are literally every suburban white 12 to 24 year old male with less than 3 close friends and limited social experiences. Get away from YouTube and vidya kid.
Brandon Powell
Wrong. I also oppose the right and liberals. But they are both very weak and much less of a threat than the left.
In your use of the term ideology it has no meaning. Ideology is fundamentally based on theory and ideas, not on practice.
Property rights are a fundamental component of meritocracy. How does leftism support it?
Then go ahead and share your understanding of leftism.
You talk high and mighty but you make zero arguments. Typical for a philtard.
This.
Luke Morgan
if the only things you support are private property and meritocracy you are a right-winger.
Jeremiah Walker
Why is "what works best in practice" not an ideological statement, then? "Works best" for whom? "Works best" in what way?
Leftism isn't necessarily against meritocracy, although this does depend on what group or which leftist you're talking about. Some are against the concept of "merit," mostly anarchists; most allow for it in some form, in a theoretical socialist state.
I could understand why you might hate leftists. Many leftists hate leftists. On the other hand, you may not even be hating leftist but liberals, however "radical" they may try to pass themselves off as. Nonetheless, you should probably read more about ideology.
Robert Carter
If you have a body, or set, of beliefs – you have an ideology. It may not be something that can fit purely into labels such as "socialism", "conservatism", "liberalism", or "fascism", however it still maintains that set of ideas = ideology. You believe in something, or a complex of somethings, therefore it is an ideology. Very many people don't fit nicely into labels like "liberalism" and "conservatism" because one can be fiscally conservative, socially liberal. or the inverse, and still have an ideology, or even be conservative on some fiscal issues and liberal on others. Even then, if you look there are many syncretic combinations:
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On and on. You can read the variants section for yourself.
Jack Brooks
Property rights are antithetical to a meritocracy. Property gives the owner power over others not out of his own ability, but out of ownership. A millionaire inverter does not make tons of money by being meritfull, but by owning property, while a more meritfull person who does not own property earns less.
Lincoln Flores
investor*
Bentley Nelson
Yes, you are not free from theory and ideas, whether you like it or not.
No, not all meritocratic economies are market-based, even less so private property-based.
You don't understand what I meant. Even if you just want "what works best", it will depend on an underlying ideology, which isn't simply implied by political realism.
Aiden Bennett
i mean you come here talking about your supposedly high-minded political positions (not ideological tho ofc xDDDD) but you just demonstrate naivete and ignorance of basic concepts and terminology while offering no arguments. Its not exactly a good faith position on your part, and its not going to encourage any on the part of anons here.
Alas your opinions are entirely bland liberalism, so unthinkingly absorbed from the status quo you can't even recognise them as ideological. But since you're here you've got at least some interest in the political so hopefully in time you'll start reading books.