I think it helps to have a nuanced opinion and make sure we don't spiral into an echo chamber. For my example, I've found that lefties are able to identify a lot of the right problems, it's just that they think gay space communism is the solution to it.
For instance, I completely agree that North American cities are really stupidly designed. The car-centric nature of them means you're stranded if your vehicle breaks down. The fact that you have to go into debt to buy this big stupid box to navigate your own city is ridiculous in the first place.
But when it comes to their solutions for this they can't separate their stupid idpol nonsense from it. My local city government keeps talking about "equitable solutions" to traffic and pedestrian fatalities. Typical "world ending, women most affected" type stuff.
Plus they keep droning on about high density housing which absolutely no one wants to live in. in their utopia we'd all live in depressing Soviet-style block apartments.
The left's tendency to view large corporations and multinational businesses with suspicion is something I think most of us agree with. As you said, their problem is that their proposed solutions would just make everything worse. And of course, they're so easily brainwashed that it was trivial to convince them many of those corporations were suddenly good for as long as they spouted leftist talking points.
Agree about that but it’s also disheartening to see so many young ppl on the left who have this deep hatred for anyone who is wealthier or has it better in life. Nobody taught them that life isn’t always fair and some people simply will have it better
A flip side to that is there are quite a few people on the right who have a "fuck you, I got mine, if you didn't then just go die" attitude. This is especially egregious in the older crowd, as they got theirs when it was a lot easier. The whole "Sorry I didn't buy a house when they were $50,000, I was too busy being 2 years old" meme has a lot of truth to it that those people don't want to acknowledge. It's very similar to how married men in their 50s and 60s won't acknowledge how the dating market has changed disastrously since the last time they were in it. "It was easy for me, so if you didn't achieve what I did, it must be your fault, and since you're complaining about it, it also means you're lazy and selfish, so fuck you" is a very dominant attitude among many older people on the right. While there may be some truth to it for some people, it also drives a lot of younger people away from the right. You don't bring people to your side by sneering at them. The Left's 'solutions' while totally unworkable, unethical, cancerous, evil, and insidious, are at very least designed to emotionally appeal to people and seem more palatable. The right hasn't learned that being the more attractive option, regardless of merit, carries a lot of weight with most people. The Right is very often horrible at selling conservatism, even if it's correct. The Left is very good at selling leftism, even though it's awful.
Once again the right's biggest strengths are also our biggest weakness. We are disagreeable and individualistic by nature. We don't care all that much for 'consensus building', and older right wing people really struggle to let go of the 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' meme. Trying to get right wingers to work together towards anything is like herding cats.
That is a good. Although there is the issue of inflation and unfortunately you have those who want more and more spending or “free stuff” but don’t realize the consequences. You are correct about the left being great with appealing to emotion.
More importantly nobody taught them that success is not the result of either luck or perfidy.
That's the foundation of economic leftism. The idea that if someone has more stuff than you do that they attained it illegitimately.
Which of course has it's roots in satanic ideology. All the founding ideas of leftism go back to the devil.
Agreed. Reminds me of Sowell talking about how they see everything as a zero sum game (someone achieving success means that they are taking from someone else)
Well that's a somewhat larger kettle of fish, but yes. Economics is subtractive, but not a zero sim game and the two are often muddled.