Left Wing and Right wing Politics

Dr. S D. Sathish Kumar, Asst.Professor, SIMS

The Left wing and Right wing politics appeared during the French Revolution of 1789, the members of National assembly is divided in to supporters of the king to the Presidents right and they are supporters of the revolution to the left. Members will follow conservatism i.e. committed to traditional values and ideas with an opposition to change.

Political Philosophy

The Left wing follows Liberal- Prefer more regulation and services to the people like free universal health care to be provided by the government to all the citizens of the country.

The Right wing follows Conservative- Prefer smaller government, less regulation, most services are provided to the private sector in a free market and an accurate analysis of the establishment.

Health Care Policy

The left wing believes that access to healthcare is one of the fundamental rights of all the citizens. The right wing oppose government provided universal healthcare.

 Education Policy

The left wing favour expanded free and public education, The right wing believe choice of the parents who want to home school their kids or send them to private school should be able to get vouchers for opting out of the  public school system.

Gay Right

The left wing supports gay marriage, support anti-discrimination laws to protest LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) against work place discrimination.

The Right wing oppose gay marriage, oppose anti- discrimination because they believe it create conflict between people towards religious beliefs and restrict freedom of religion.

Gun Right

The Left wing are in favour of Gun control laws like background checks or waiting period to buy a gun, banning automatic weapons, disallowing concealed weapons.

The Right wing- Strongly oppose to gun control laws.

Environmental Policy

The left wings are generally traditionalist, preferring to ban economic activity that may create jobs but could potentially harm the environment.

The Right wings are usually more tolerant considering economic impact of environment regulation. Believe in free market will find its own solution to environmental problems.

The left wings are always associated with Democratic Party, green, socialist and political parties. The right wing is associated with republic party, constitutional party. The core beliefs of the left wing are minority rights, economic equality, gun control, environmental protection, expanded education opportunity, social nets who need them. But the right wings core beliefs are limited to government at national level, local government should have most control over decisions affecting local population individual freedom and personal property rights.