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Topic subjectI've always consider the divide between the left and the right to be
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13044194, I've always consider the divide between the left and the right to be
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Thu Jul-14-16 03:10 PM
optimistic or pessimistic regarding human nature. I think the right thinks it's a zero sum game and everyone elses gain is there lost. That's why they want to close borders, don't like outsiders and cling to the past.

I think the left wings problem is that it is overly optimistic about human nature and think they create a utopian and underestimates man's capacity for corruption and self-interest. In terms of racism the problem with the left is that it doesn't acknowledge it's own racism.





>Each side of politics has their racists, but am I right in
>thinking that the most overt, unashamed racism gets into
>democracies via the right rather than the left? To me the left
>fractures over principles more readily than the right, which
>will swallow racism and other inconsistent values if the money
>is good enough.
>
>America
>UK
>France
>Netherlands
>
>etc
>
>Countries where people supposedly get a vote but elections are
>tampered with don't count. Maybe that disqualifies America
>from my examples.


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