Another useful scream-in-the-face that is guaranteed to instantly halt useful discussion on politicis (ie. on anything), rightwing is especially popular in Britain.
But I'll let Peter Hitchens tell it (I do have to wonder what it must be like at the Hitchens family Christmas table when Pete and Chris get together.)
As far as most fashionable people are concerned, it is a serious sin to be 'rightwing', two words they like to run together into one. And it is also very easy. All you need to do is to disagree with any small part of what they regard as the 'progressive' agenda - though they use the word 'progressive' as if it were an entirely neutral description of what they desire.
This unconscious belief in the automatic superiority of their thinking, and the quickness to condemn dissent as an act which is itself wicked, makes it very difficult to argue with them. And it makes serious discussion of politics almost impossible. For instance, we have the Tory Party's current strange ramble into the world of red tape. Whatever it means, the Left don't have anything interesting to say about it
H/T to Kathy
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