Support or opposition to nuclear weapons really doesn't feel like it can be classified on a left-right axis, but people in the survey who think of themselves as left-wing reckon that their support for nuclear weapons is a right-wing view.
The "should Britain have an independent nuclear deterrent?" question is one I have only recently realised that there are people here assessing in terms of "could it make a positive difference to Canada's safety in the case of an aggressively hegemonic US government", including support for said deterrent from the kind of self-identified lefties I am very used to otherwise strongly correlating with being strongly anti-nuclear weapons.
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Date: 2022-10-26 12:43 pm (UTC)Support or opposition to nuclear weapons really doesn't feel like it can be classified on a left-right axis, but people in the survey who think of themselves as left-wing reckon that their support for nuclear weapons is a right-wing view.
The "should Britain have an independent nuclear deterrent?" question is one I have only recently realised that there are people here assessing in terms of "could it make a positive difference to Canada's safety in the case of an aggressively hegemonic US government", including support for said deterrent from the kind of self-identified lefties I am very used to otherwise strongly correlating with being strongly anti-nuclear weapons.