> What I mean is, the left has spent several decades now working its existing ideologies to their logical conclusions. And in fact, they’ve arrived at a pretty inflexible point. The right, on the other hand, doesn’t really care about its ideology. It just wants power, and that search for power is taking them in some pretty extreme directions.
I'll be chewing over this one for a while. Some initial thoughts:
* While many right-wing pols are in it for the power, it does seem that there is a new breed who actually believe the BS;
* I can't believe that the average right-winger voter *only* cares about power--understanding what he really wants (and how he can be fooled) seems essential;
* The logical conclusions on the Left can often seem like a willing embrace of reductio ab absurdum, and as only a limited part of the populace is capable of such mental gymnastics, I wonder how the fundamentals of the ideology might evolve.
> What I mean is, the left has spent several decades now working its existing ideologies to their logical conclusions. And in fact, they’ve arrived at a pretty inflexible point. The right, on the other hand, doesn’t really care about its ideology. It just wants power, and that search for power is taking them in some pretty extreme directions.
I'll be chewing over this one for a while. Some initial thoughts:
* While many right-wing pols are in it for the power, it does seem that there is a new breed who actually believe the BS;
* I can't believe that the average right-winger voter *only* cares about power--understanding what he really wants (and how he can be fooled) seems essential;
* The logical conclusions on the Left can often seem like a willing embrace of reductio ab absurdum, and as only a limited part of the populace is capable of such mental gymnastics, I wonder how the fundamentals of the ideology might evolve.