We learn to distinguish the right from the left from the age of five. But there are a lot of people who mix left and right. Our neighbour is one of them. He is driving his car at night from the city of Kapstadt and his colleague gives him the instructions. Your friends get confused to right and left. “On the left,” says his partner at a crossroads. No, no! To the left, “Beste.”
The year 2016, which is going to end, has given me some lessons in the case of left and right. The new stage starts at the gates of 2015. Thus the coalition was presented to form the Greek Government (left), which was formed by Syriza (left) and the Greek Independent (right). The left and the right were obsolete categories. The political events of 2016, at least the attitudes expressed in the votes, have helped me understand why they are so close to that left and right. And so far, so far away!
The mechanism is basically very simple: if the center's politicians don't respond to the concerns of ordinary people, ordinary people have to move from the center and get to the ends.
In Germany, the central groups, called Volkspartei, have made policy against the country’s voters and parties. In the territories in which Die Linke, located on the left of social democracy, has also failed its voters. And lo and behold, a group that has stood on the right of Angela Merkel's party has made its entry into the political game, the AfD party. Nork and Die Linke have had many votes taken, unless they were strong. After all, they give us a new understanding that one end and the other end are close. Frauke Petry, from the right-wing team, besides getting along with Marine Le Pen, also gets along with Die Link's Sarah Wagenknecht.
During an interview, the media highlighted the meeting points between the two: They criticise the democratic deficit of the European Union, reject the TTIP and the CETA or reject the possible public bailout of Deutsche Bank.
Can it therefore happen, as in Greece, that a coalition is formed? Wagenknecht has accused AfD of being nationalist and racist. Frauke Petri hasn’t said or posted on social media barbarity like Donald Trump, but he is reproached for not distancing himself from the offensive messages of some of his members and accepting them to reach a kind of audience.
In EE.UU. has not gone to the parties that have formed at the ends of the centre; it has been sufficient with a hyperbolic candidate in one of the traditional parties. But, regardless of Trump’s discriminatory messages, Senator Bernie Sanders himself said that he is also acting correctly in some of the needs he mentions. In an interview with CNN after the elections, Sanders talked about the needs of the working class in the middle classes. Trump has coincided with a number of issues on the agenda: raising minimum wages, the need to rebuild infrastructure, TTIP and rejecting other transnational treaties. The Americans can often say things very clearly, so that everyone understands: Sanders said there are reasons to be angry, which is a problem to channel that anger. Because, turning left or right, it's not a secondary thing. How is it going to be the same? Ignore insults to Muslims, Latinos, women, homosexuals? The left and the right are not the same thing. They are not when they respond to the same concern (the impossibility of continuing where we are).