Unthinking Majority wrote:The reality is that we need both a left and a right in politics.
No we don't. In purely linguistic terms the descriptiveness of right and left may be inevitable, but we don't need right wing thought at all. It's all very stupid and useless and premised on the idea that things can never get better, nor is any desire to make things better good.
And why families need both a masculine and feminine figure (e.g. mother and father). Even gay couples typically have a partner who is more masculine and the other partner who leans more feminine. It's nature's way.
"If I examine everything through this binary lens of masculinity/femininity, then every couple I examine will have a masculine and feminine." Yeah, duh, no shit.
Ok. What about a single parent? What about two transbians or two transmen in a relationship? How do I measure the masculinity of a virgin Bible nerd nun who is asexual? That nun is married to God, who I understand to be an aromantic asexual binary being of pure, unmitigated power. Or possibly gay, He made Adam first and Eve as an afterthought from some bio waste.
You're just cramming every wooden shape in the toddler's play bucket through the same two holes and saying it's natural.
And the reason is because the left is more feminized like a mother figure, they are more kind and compassionate and giving because sometimes when people are genuinely hurting they need that, and the right-wing is more masculine like a father figure. They deal more in tough love and teach personal responsibility and facing one's fears, and they're also the ones who are more assertive/aggressive and can often better protect the family from outside threats.
So the government is like a parent in many ways. We're forced to abide by their rules and they protect us from outside threats (military, police etc) like a father would, but they also can take care of us when we're vulnerable and/or hurting (unemployment insurance, welfare, healthcare, pensions etc) like a mother would. Too much or not enough of one or the other is harmful.
The far-left/communists are compassionate and well-meaning, but are like an overbearing mother who shelters their children, and the fascists and far-right are tough but far too much so, like an abusive father that lacks compassion. You need a balanced approach, and the left and right balance each other out and act as a check on each other so each isn't able to go to far.
*Note: Like in many families, sometimes the female behaves more "masculine" and provides the discipline and tough love, while the male is the kinder/gentler figure. So left-wing fellas don't worry, i'm not calling you women
What man-o-sphere influencer podcasts do you listen to? This is some Jordan Peterson waxing on the moral lessons of Disney movies surface level reading shit man.
These are pretty surface level takes on American politics. You know, in North Korea, Kim Jong Un and Kim Jong Il were typically depicted as motherly figures to the Korean peoples? You can find paintings of Kim Jong Un lovingly tying up the shoelaces of soldiers before they go off to kill the big nosed American invaders.