Something the Left understands that the Right doesn't understand

[Parththakkar12]

I see this thing happen between the Left and Right that creates a lot of miscommunications between the two - The Left understands that ideology fundamentally is an attitude, a mindset that collectives use in order to take action. This ideology gives them a direction, it gives them a moral compass. Generally, Stage Green Leftists will be able to choose their ideology accordingly and stand for what they truly believe in. Whereas the Right will hold their morality as absolutely true. Their morality/ideology will typically be something that they were programmed with/conditioned with/learned in church.

The Right doesn't get this yet, the Right thinks that the beliefs of the Left are held as ideologically true. The Right will get stuck in absolutism and project that onto the Left, which creates the ego-backlash. For example, if the government is more tolerant of BLM protests than a white supremacist rally, they will call the government racist against white people. They will project their absolutist thinking on the government and say things along the lines of 'the government believes that Black people are superior to White people, that is why it is for Black people against White people'.

The root-cause of absolutism is lack of conceptual awareness or awareness of the point. This is why the Right will get stuck in word-games, moral outrage using trigger-words, identity-politics, etc.

Thoughts?

[Preety_India]

Three words - ignorance and arrogance and xenophobia. 

[Hansu]

@Parththakkar12

I've always thought that left and right don't understand each other correctly. They always project their own ideas on words that the opposite uses, completely missing the point the other tries to make.

I always thought about researching this topic and try to make generalizations about it, but then I got disinterested on governmental politics. It's mentally exhausting and I rather work on something more productive.

Edited January 30, 2021 by Hansu

[Raphael]

I recently thought about this. I think that the left is generally less ideological and has more requisite variety than the right. But, many people from the left are still ideological, the difference is that their ideology is a more recent one.

Example: Greta Thunberg. In the following video she looks highly ideological, she shame and she's angry.

Now on this video, we see similar emotions.

They are both ideological here, but the ideological content is different. They have similar emotional complexity, yet Greta Thunberg has probably more education and is more advance at the same time.

Edited January 30, 2021 by Raphael