True! It’s not unique to the right, but I do think it shows up there a lot. It’s a very Objective view of the world (there is a Right and Wrong, outside of culture), and there’s more objectivity on the right, and more subjectivity on the left. Not universally, but more.
I think the way this manifests on the left is actually pretty different, perhaps even the opposite, to the way it shows up on at least the current right.
The current right has Good People who can do no Bad, no matter how much wrong they do. So they can get away with a lot, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, and their base will support them anyway because they’re still a Good Person.
Whereas on the left we’re maybe a bit quick to dismiss someone outright, or lose the forest for the trees, because we think of ourselves as the side of Morality. So there can be a person who does a lot of good, and seems like a Good Person, and then one thing can come out about them, maybe not even a substantiated thing. Maybe something they did 25 years ago, that they would never do today, and in an instant everyone has flipped on them. You see, people are either Good People or Bad People, and if you’ve done a Bad thing, you must not have been a Good Person afterall! You were a Bad Person in disguise! Thank goodness we caught you and ousted you, so we can continue to be the side of only Good People.
Shouldn’t we be the side of spectrums? Of forgiveness? Of growth, and healing, and learning, and rehabilitation? Grace and second chances?
I mean, don’t get fooled over and over by the same grifter, but there could at least be some room to say oops, sorry, and then do better going forwards.
True! It’s not unique to the right, but I do think it shows up there a lot. It’s a very Objective view of the world (there is a Right and Wrong, outside of culture), and there’s more objectivity on the right, and more subjectivity on the left. Not universally, but more.
I think the way this manifests on the left is actually pretty different, perhaps even the opposite, to the way it shows up on at least the current right.
The current right has Good People who can do no Bad, no matter how much wrong they do. So they can get away with a lot, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, and their base will support them anyway because they’re still a Good Person.
Whereas on the left we’re maybe a bit quick to dismiss someone outright, or lose the forest for the trees, because we think of ourselves as the side of Morality. So there can be a person who does a lot of good, and seems like a Good Person, and then one thing can come out about them, maybe not even a substantiated thing. Maybe something they did 25 years ago, that they would never do today, and in an instant everyone has flipped on them. You see, people are either Good People or Bad People, and if you’ve done a Bad thing, you must not have been a Good Person afterall! You were a Bad Person in disguise! Thank goodness we caught you and ousted you, so we can continue to be the side of only Good People.
Shouldn’t we be the side of spectrums? Of forgiveness? Of growth, and healing, and learning, and rehabilitation? Grace and second chances?
I mean, don’t get fooled over and over by the same grifter, but there could at least be some room to say oops, sorry, and then do better going forwards.
Great points, I think you’re spot on with the differences.