-——————What we call Right is a pretty poor description of what we are and even if Perry was a internationalist, does an internationalist have to be right wing?———————
Yes.
Left/right are european constructs to begin with. Communists on the left, Fascists on the right. It’s a false choice, really, but you see liberals and media types present false choices constantly on all topics.
The american founding built a whole new set of tracks, and it took a long time for these big government types to get us here.
-——————Do we actually want to fall into the trap of letting the left define us?-————————
I’ve asked that question many times myself, in different ways. Usually I ask it in the context of big gov/establishment republicans and tea partiers.
Both can’t be right wing. Tea partiers have little/nothing to do with the republican establishment, policy-wise I mean. This is easily seen by how venomously many Rs attack the tea party in sleazy ways.
But in all cases if you look at those republicans who chronically grew government; progressive republicans, they were also interventionist with the US Military. The left is also internationalist, but their preferred vehicle is to surrender to the UN.(or what would’ve been the league of nations)
I think we should message that we are the “UP” party, as uplifting, elevating, etc...
Everytime a reporter says we are right wing, we should shoot them down and tell them that they don’t know what right wing is and they can’t call you a fascist and get away with it.
This has to stop.