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Is Wall Street Journal Right wing or Left wing?
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Although, it is deffietely a left wing democratic journal.
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That's just my take from second hand osmosis of its content.
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The Establishment is authoritarian, like many Liberals, in that they want big government. Because it means big positions, lots of influence, big salaries, more attention, etc. Or that they are paranoid helicopter bureaucrats oh so concerned about our well being. Most likely the former. My Congressman hasn't checked to see if I've been wearing my seatbelt or eating my greens lately. This is why they only vote for Obamacare repeal when they know it won't count, and absolutely do everything they can to make an alternative that is unpalatable to conservatives, because they know we won't bite, and they get to keep all the nice new government agencies to which they and their family members can be appointed to prestigious sounding positions that give six figure salaries for far less work. Also, government is wasteful so more agencies mean more contracts for businessmen. And there's nothing inherently wrong with honest business with a government, but if the agency is redundant and wasteful, so are all its contracts with the private sector.
Socially, they also tend to lean a little left, as was already pointed out.
Where they lean right is where social conservatives have filtered in, some genuinely do have socially conservative views, and while they want big government, also generally don't want to abolish private property, unlike the left who REALLY lean that way in more than just a general sense.
The last point I want to make is the Neocon influence. Now I could go on a rant here, but I'll try to keep cool. I am not a Neocon. I generally oppose them. But in their defense, there was this fad to try to merge Neocons with NeoNazis in the minds of gullible Americans for a while. The only thing Neo means is NEW. The reason the Neocons were NEW Conservatives (and there have always been very few of them) was that the Socialist influences have always been within the Democrat party, and during the Cold War, many Democrats who had Socialist views were viewed as too friendly with the USSR and other Communist countries. If we got into a war, some democrats wanted to win it because they rooted for the country they lived in. Kind of a natural thing. I wouldn't call them true Nationalists, they just didn't like losing, especially since they were already in political power. They moved over to the Republican Party exclusively for foreign policy reasons. Anyway, the "we don't want to be lined up and shot in a Marxist revolution" and "Let's make a bigger bureaucratic mouse trap" ideas made them right at home at the upper echelons of the Republican party, and especially the Washington machine, especially when we were trying to find any ally, shady or not, against the spread of Communism. And they stayed there. And they greatly influence certain parts of WSJ and FOX News, etc.
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