Comment by soupfordummies
Comment by soupfordummies 7 days ago
I've heard this dismissal a good bit often ("that's just a nothing word that means 'bad thing I don't like' ") but that's really just not true.
It has been consistently defined through the decades, especially during the 20th century. Here's one common example you can find from the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary and it sounds pretty familiar:
"A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
I kinda feel like that would work just as well with ‘right’ replaced by ‘left’.
If anything, this definition is a better argument for the parents’s point.
Dictatorship, belligerent (North Korea style) and nationalism seem much more important features than left or right.