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Bernard NoLes's avatar

Great piece. It seems like an academic distinction at first, but the practical applications of this dualism are terrible for the right. It’s like we’re trying to do a home improvement project and conservatives think that the left and right are disagreeing on the best way to construct it. In reality though, the right is trying to build it, while the left is trying to destroy it and sell off the tools. When the conservatives compromise with the left, they think they’re doing so in order to move the project forward, but in reality they are just agreeing to let the left demolish or burn half. Over multiple cycles, not only does the improvement not get constructed, but the original house is destroyed.

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John Slaughter's avatar

As I always say, "all politics is downstream from and individuals' relationship to their father," and those on the "left," hate their father and consequently all authority and hierarchy.

Simple as.

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