Except that's oversimplifying. What your using is the "American definition", which is a interesting view point again for a Japense person to be so heavily focused in a US subject.here's one. Leftist define themselves as being against the right. Definitely not the other way around.
Wait, the right define themselves as being against the left, not the other way around.
What do I mean the "American definition"
The Republican party entirely focuses on doing whatever is the opposite of the Democratic party.
While Democrats are a compromise (voter wise), is made up of people who agreed with the Democratic party, but also actual leftists don't have a party of their own, and have to deal with putting up for a Democrat since the two party system. The end result(Elected wise) is a middle right party.
Okay, so what is leftist define by?
Leftists are defined by understanding of class struggle, and a heavy criticism of capitalism function. Most fall also under the camp of providing more rights and a stronger democracy, through getting rid of a representative democracy (what we have now) to a policy based one done by majority vote.
This is more Democratic since we literately just had at least two presidents who didn't win the popular vote/majority vote. But won in the electoral collage. Straight up minority rule.
If you so will argue with me for just a second. Let's call these leftists... progressives.
Now let's look at the right in general. This includes Democrats (middle right) and Republicans (far right)
If anything I'd have to point out the extremes since that's the only thing giving us relativity on the subject. So I'll be separating the two extremes. Most Democrats (voters, excluding the actual leftist faction) believe in having a stronger democracy akin to leftists. However they don't see any issues with capitalism itself to the same degree actual leftists do.
For example a Democrat would say Capitalism is fine, as long as their is a government to hold it back. This is just a issue of practice. At least acknowledging that companies/capitalism is not = moral.
A leftists would say, Well if you need a government to step in to fix the problem, that most likely means it's a fundamental issue with the system itself. They want a system that can function without a government curtailing it. without also having the system cripple people's rights. Which they believe capitalism as a system does.
Now what Republicans believe is that there is no problems with such a system. And if anything, the government should just be straight up removed because it'll "empower free speech"
I put this in air quotes because as a leftist myself. Companies will just eventually become the new state. And we'll end up here at square one. If your thinking just the first generation of people. Yes, technically that is 100% fair. But once we start getting to multiple generations of people, wealth transferring and such. If the main goal was to keep a 100% fair system. You now have people who have a starting situation of $0 vs people who have two businesses from the start to be the CEO of because their dad made it.
Anyways Republicans are what we can call conservative, they want to keep the same system, and or regress.
Let's now throw another mess into the matter. Nazi's. We can both agree history is a very ugly thing right? we had racial issues, xenophobia, and a whole other ugly messes.
So what side would Nazi's agree with the most? It wouldn't be leftists or democrats. Both are in favor of increasing rights and not limiting them. And as a result of that mentality, they're more aware of other people's issues.
Republicans however, want to keep the same system, and they just believe that the government is a problem. At least Republicans pre 2014ish.
Which as leftists again, have described, the goverment isn't the only issue. Your resource management or economic system or however you want to describe it, can also cause issues. After all, people didn't just one day think "I want to enslave another person" They did it because it made a fuck ton of money.
So which side would Nazi's want to side on most likely? It would be the side that's regressing. Regressing bad towards that ugly past. But also in favor of a system (resource management) that allows and continues to enable people to be oppressed. Regardless if you go authoritarian capitalist, or anarcho capitalist. Either the goverment oppresses and the system or just the system.
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