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13640838 No.13640838 [Reply] [Original]

>read famous left-wing author
>turns out they're more conservative than their reputation would suggest

>read famous right-wing author
>turns out they're more liberal than their reputation would suggest

>> No.13640861

>>13640838
I'm pretty old, a good way to explain this is that philosophers and writers from older eras did not have the codified notions of conservative and liberal that we know today in the American parlance, or really the Left/Right divide in general as everyone else knows it.

Marx for example rightly despised homosexuals and negroes. Hitler had a pretty soft stance on women's rights and support for single mothers. Andrew Jackson hated banks AND injuns. And God, read anything that Huey Long ever said.

It is only in this modern era that ideology has divided every single issue into a hardline political position, deviation from which is heretical.

>> No.13640869

>>13640861
Huey Long was great.

>> No.13640876

>>13640838
Most people who wrote important things had a lot more nuanced views than the retards who engage in most political discussion.

>> No.13640878

>>13640869
/Huey/ thread when guys?

>> No.13640903

>>13640878
make one if you want. Put some effort into it though, write something about him for the people who don't know who he is

>> No.13641234

>>13640876
The retards who speak are dumb enough to read (copy) what the shy politicians were writing in their memoirs and stories.

>> No.13641751

>>13640838
>read OP
>turns out he is a massive faggot