I'm really concerned with the division in this country. I know everyone says that, but think about it...

The way left wing peeps talk about conservatives is not any different than how a normal person talks about Nazis. The way conservatives generalize about lefties is no diff than how ppl talk about tankies. I don't say that a civil war is gonna break out or anything overly dramatic like that, but I do think cultural divide is making it harder for society to do anything cohesive.

I'm more right wing, culturally speaking at least. But I am always careful never to act like lefties are bad, or that it takes some particularly deviant mind to be a run of the mill leftist. I don't. I don't even think lefties are nessecarily any worse ppl than cons, like legit. I also recognize that given who I am and my demographic, it's statistically normal for me to believe what I do.

I think most lefties are left wing for this reason: Because they were born in Oregon, or california, or scandanavia.
I think most conservatives are conservative for this reason: Cause they were born in the south, or texas, or from the 50s, or some shit like that.

I think that if we forget that what makes people virtuous is their interpersonal empathy and daily deeds, we can avoid the division. I have way more in common with a left wing person who volunteers are a childrens hospital and and a homeless shelter than I do right wing individual who think charity is stupid because of some stupid Ayn Rand bullshit. I'd hope the lefties feel the same too.

I think it's just outright ignorance to suggest that being right or left is highly influenced by brain chemistry, genetics, or personality. Yes, these things are a factor. I'v been cited studies about the difference in the average lefty brain that righty brain. It's a predictor, but what's far more of a predictor is where you come from.

Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M

Society does its bit to form one's politics. Once I was a right leaning "moderate.". Serving in the military with most of my time overseas made me into a committed leftist.

BRUUH

@ViciDraco The systematic power definition pretty much started and ended with academics working in social science. It's from sociology books. I put no stock on it cause it's not what anyone who isn't dealing in that field (or a left wing activist) is talking about. Plus,

I don't really agree with you on anything else you say, tho I think you are well meaning. You want a color blind world, and not a LITERAL color blind world (I hate when ppl say that) but one where race becomes a relevant as hair color. I think you mean well. I personally think it's way better for everyone if we stop moral fagging and let people govern themselves locally. Do you personally wanna tell all the cubans to stop caring when non cubans like myself move into their neighborhood? I don't, even tho i'm the one who got mean looks and ignored daily. I think it's way more reasonable to let people who wanna live in a homogenous ethno-state do it, and let people who wanna live in diverse spaces do it to. I support direct democracy on many issues, especially locally one. I think cubans should be allowed to make little havannah a municipality and ethno-state, and white ppl can also do the same, as can black people if they want to.

BRUUH

@ViciDraco And just to clarify, even tho i'm an extremist, I don't wanna live in a white ethno-state. Only time i'd wanna do that is if I have white kids. If I marry a brown girl and have zeebra babies, then I wouldn't want to live in one.