Tuesday, January 17, 2017

A Guide to Basic Differences Between Left and Right

From: Town Hall

by - Dennis Prager - Jan 17, 2017


Source of Human Rights:
 
Left: Government 
Right: The Creator
 
Human Nature:

Left: Basically good (Therefore, society is primarily responsible for evil.)
Right: Not basically good (Therefore, the individual is primarily responsible for evil.)

Economic Goal:

Left: Equality
Right: Prosperity

Primary Role of the State:

Left: Increase and protect equality
Right: Increase and protect liberty

Government:

Left: As large as possible
Right: As small as possible

Family Ideal:

Left: Any loving unit of people
Right: A married father and mother, and children

Guiding Trinity:

Left: Race, gender and class
Right: Liberty, In God We Trust and e pluribus unum

Good and Evil:

Left: Relative to individual and/or society
Right: Based on universal absolutes

Humanity's Primary Division(s):

Left: Rich and poor; strong and weak
Right: Good and evil

Ideal Primary Identity of an American:

Left: World citizen
Right: American citizen

How to Make a Good Society:

Left: Abolish inequality
Right: Develop each citizen's moral character

View of America:

Left: Profoundly morally flawed; inferior to any number of European countries
Right: Greatest force for good among nations in world history

Gender:

Left: A social construct
Right: Male and female   

Most Important Trait to Cultivate in a Child:

Left: Self-esteem
Right: Self-control

Worth of the Human Fetus:

Left: Determined by the mother
Right: Determined by society rooted in Judeo-Christian values

Primary Source of Crime:

Left: Poverty, racism and other societal flaws
Right: The criminal's malfunctioning conscience 

Place of God and Religion in America:

Left: Secular government and secular society
Right: Secular government and religious society

American Exceptionalism:

Left: Chauvinistic doctrine
Right: Historical reality

Greatest Threat to the World:

Left: Environmental catastrophe (currently global warming)
Right: Evil (currently radical Islamist violence)

International Ideal:

Left: World governed by the United Nations, and no single country is dominant
Right: World in which America is the single strongest entity

Primary Reason for Lack of Peace in Middle East:

Left: Israeli settlements in the West Bank
Right: Palestinian, Arab and Muslim denial of Jewish state's right to exist

Purpose of Art:

Left: Challenge status quo and bourgeois sensibilities
Right: Produce works of beauty and profundity to elevate the individual and society

Guns:

Left: Ideally universally abolished, except for use by police, the armed forces and registered sportsmen
Right: Ideally widely owned by responsible individuals for self-protection and the protection of others

Race:

Left: Intrinsically significant
Right: Intrinsically insignificant

Racial, Ethnic and Gender Diversity at Universities:

Left: Most important
Right: Far less important than ideological diversity

Black America's Primary Problem:

Left: Racism
Right: Lack of fathers

Greatest Playwright:

Left: Entirely subjective; there is no greatest playwright
Right: Shakespeare

War:

Left: Not the answer
Right: Sometimes the only answer

Hate:

Left: Wrong, except when directed at the political
Right: Wrong, except when directed at evil

Cultures:

Left: All equal
Right: Some are better than others

America's Founding Fathers:

Left: Rich white male slave owners
Right: Great men who founded the greatest society

Purpose of Judges:

Left: Pursue social justice
Right: Pursue justice

National Borders:

Left: A relic of the past
Right: Indispensable for national survival

View of Illegal Immigrants:

Left: Welcomed guests
Right: Illegal immigrants

Nature:

Left: Intrinsically valuable
Right: Made for man


God bless,
JohnnyD


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