How do we ignore fact that there are seemingly divides in politics among the masses. The call to say the left-right paradigm is false may apply to dem repub, but not to the reality that there is a group of people that largely fall into the following left right paradigm. What neither really adheres to is ethical behavior.
Essentially there are definitely people on right that is ok with the market economy controlling or being the final arbiter in social affairs and damned be the environment or status of ecological systems. The right generally wants to conserve system and are ok with rich people controlling society and rewarding competing hard workers and talented people while letting impoverished and "lazy Untalented losers" fight for scraps or live in poverty without any sort of change to greater system. This, often, is linked to a belief in divine nature of fascism or capitalism but sometimes is based on social darwinism and a belief in a natural order. There is also like a secondary cultural identity of loving domineering violent males and warmaking and hating gay sex or any non- biblical condoned people. Historically this was previously the space for imperial racism and an identity around that, which is still a legacy that lives on to some degree.
This is seriously what drives alot of people
There are also people who identify as left that want other factors to regulate market economy like common good, environmental health and sustainability, human rights, generally want to make changes to system, see it as fallible and are not ok with rich people controlling society don't want the masses to compete for resources but unite and are not ok with poverty. Generally the left wants to eliminate poverty and want the earth to survive. The left generally wants some changes to system, some want to dismantle it replace it with left wing systems. there are people who identify as left that don't agree with war as the default state of humans and don't see capitalism or fascism as natural order or believe in it as natural order. The left generally more favorably supports feminism and female elevation to roles of political economic and social power. There are people who identify as left that want to rectify injustices of imperialism and racism and support diveristy.
The trick is recognizing that there is in fact this divide and in supporting democracy as a compromise between them, then finding compromises between them as each makes its case.
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