One of the biggest disconnects between the “right and left” has always been accepting the world for what it is versus trying to force the world to your desires.
I'm glad it's not just me that sees that. That's pretty much exactly how I describe one of the biggest divides and defining characters in left v. right; utopianism versus reality/realism.
There's nothing wrong with wanting a better world...but the problem comes from not being able to acknowledge basic truths, and thus starting with a very faulty premise, so your "solution" will never work. For example, if you start off with "people are inherently good," communism seems great. But if the foundation were true, you wouldn't need to fix people via communism. It's just not grounded in reality. Imposing a different system on people won't change human nature. And the left does this same pattern over and over, of starting with a faulty foundational premise.
There was that poll from a few years ago that showed more conservative people would tolerate and befriend people of non-aligned politics, while liberals polled they couldn't be friends with different politically minded.
Same goes for understanding. Assuming you believe polls, conservatives are much more capable of understanding the basis for an opposing argument they disagre with than the other side side.
I'm glad it's not just me that sees that. That's pretty much exactly how I describe one of the biggest divides and defining characters in left v. right; utopianism versus reality/realism.
There's nothing wrong with wanting a better world...but the problem comes from not being able to acknowledge basic truths, and thus starting with a very faulty premise, so your "solution" will never work. For example, if you start off with "people are inherently good," communism seems great. But if the foundation were true, you wouldn't need to fix people via communism. It's just not grounded in reality. Imposing a different system on people won't change human nature. And the left does this same pattern over and over, of starting with a faulty foundational premise.
There was that poll from a few years ago that showed more conservative people would tolerate and befriend people of non-aligned politics, while liberals polled they couldn't be friends with different politically minded.
Same goes for understanding. Assuming you believe polls, conservatives are much more capable of understanding the basis for an opposing argument they disagre with than the other side side.
Sowell described it as being only to see solutions and not the trade offs it actually is.
Thomas Sowell calls it the Anointed vision vs. the Benighted vision, or constrained vs. unconstrained visions.
The Anointed imagine that the world can be made as they would like it to be, and ignore any failures on their part to make it so.
Just gotta eliminate those nasty deplorables first.