My unqualified analysis of US politics, in a nutshell
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luna_virgoRight-wingers tend to be black-or-white thinkers. Conservative, religious, right versus wrong, you’re for us or against us. Hard-core, my way or the highway. Left-wingers tend to be more amorphous, inclusive, "soft" thinkers. Everything is subjective, we need to consider all the consequences before we take any action, don't offend or leave anybody out. Right-wingers want us all to be individual islands and get rid of the government and any sort of society/community programs. If you’re not well-off, it’s your fault and go fuck yourself. Left-wingers think we should all take care of each other and spread the wealth, and if you're not willing to donate you can also go fuck yourself. Both sides at their worst resemble the Borg. You will be assimilated (or destroyed).
I tend to be more on the left than the right. I think generosity (however naive) gets us all further than selfishness (however organized). But if things ever got really bad, I mean beyond Depression-era bad, into every-man-for-himself anarchy (which I must say I think would be accomplished much faster by the right-wing agenda than the left-wing), I don’t think I’d have much of a problem converting to selfishness. When it comes down to survival, I’ll take care of me and mine first, as will most people.
The difference, as I see it, is that right-wingers tend to interpret EVERY situation as survival or death, and it’s almost never that dire. For some reason (probably the dualistic religions most of them follow), it’s all-out war for them, all the time, and if they have their way, they’ll gladly push us all to the brink of their Armegeddon fetish.
I tend to be more on the left than the right. I think generosity (however naive) gets us all further than selfishness (however organized). But if things ever got really bad, I mean beyond Depression-era bad, into every-man-for-himself anarchy (which I must say I think would be accomplished much faster by the right-wing agenda than the left-wing), I don’t think I’d have much of a problem converting to selfishness. When it comes down to survival, I’ll take care of me and mine first, as will most people.
The difference, as I see it, is that right-wingers tend to interpret EVERY situation as survival or death, and it’s almost never that dire. For some reason (probably the dualistic religions most of them follow), it’s all-out war for them, all the time, and if they have their way, they’ll gladly push us all to the brink of their Armegeddon fetish.