Almost the defining mindset of the Right is the desire (or perhaps practice) of being both the oppressor/attacker & wanting to play the victim at the very same time.
Currently: US & Israeli attacks on Iran prompt self-defensive counter attacks that are then treated as an 'escalation'.
Or in the UK, after years of bad-mouthing Europe & finally engineering Brexit, claims the EU is being 'unreasonable' when failing to agree to the UK's desired 'reset' on the UK's terms!
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h/t The Bear
@ChrisMayLA6 I wouldn't call it right, in the US example, I would call that "nationalism". And as we all know, nationalism taken to its extreme, always ends in tears.
I would argue though, that the UK example is closer to what you can call "right".
Complaining about the situatoin is silly, and if the UK would only adopt a right stance towards financial questions, after a few years of booming economy, the EU will beg the UK to negotiate.
The "right" took them out of the EU, but after that
@ChrisMayLA6 has followed a leftist economy, which we know, lowers growth and makes things worse for the country. If post-brexit would have followed a diet of complete deregulation, cutting taxes in half, becoming a tax- _and_ data-haven etc. the EU would by now be begging the UK to come back in any form they would choose.
Hmmm.... I'm not so sure; the UK's economy would likely not proposer in such an re-regulated environment due to its historic problems - the (Schumpetrian) destruction would not so much be creative as divisive & likely to cause more harm than benefit (but of course we cannot be sure without trying such an approach - the difficulty is we have done - partially - in the past & its not gone well)
@ChrisMayLA6 But surely you are not saying that it was socialism that led to the UK becoming the world capital of finance? According to my history books, it was the turn away from socialism that led to the financial wonder of the UK.
@ChrisMayLA6 Ahh... ok, that makes sense. I think we disagree about the decline, but then the starting point and connection with the right fits the pattern! Thank you for clarifying!
@h4890
The turn to the right *did* enhance the role of financial services... where we differ is on the impact - less 'wonder' more machine of economic decline engineered by a rentier class uninterested in most of the country or its well-being - the UK's financial services' 'success' has been bought at the cost of the rest on the country's decline