[GregoTX]

"We also wanted to avoid the burial ground becoming a meeting pointed for the far right," he adds, pointing out that Dresden is the homeland of Pegida, a xenophobic protest movement which has organized anti-immigrant marches across Germany over the past year.

uughh. OK whatever.

[Hugin]

In Europe “the right” was traditionally monarchist and statist. Conservatives were “conserving” that tradition. So nationalism and statism are considered “right” there. In America we kicked the Euro “conservatives” (monarchist Tories) out after the revolution and founded our country on classic liberalism. So here “conservatism” is about conserving classic liberalism.

The “left” is the same in both places.