'Partisan hatred and demonization may be well suited to short-term vote-getting and social media, but in the long run, they do considerable damage to the social fabric,' writes RoyFBaumeister
Over 50 years, people’s love for their political party has remained the same, while their hatred for the other party has steadily increased.If the left and right could begin to see that the other side also serves an essential function in society, they could agree to disagree.
Let’s look for a broader context in which to consider this issue. In recent years, the foundation of my thinking has been that the human mind was created by nature for culture . Every species has to solve the problems of how to continue life—or else go extinct. That includes surviving longer and reproducing more. Humankind solves this in a very unusual way, namely by using culture to organize
Now leap ahead from prehistory to the modern world. Cultural societies continue to accomplish both of those jobs, but they grow apart. The political right focuses on amassing resources. The left focuses on redistributing them. As societies evolve, those two jobs start to find conflicting implications.
In contrast, the modern left focuses on redistribution. It began with the labor movement, which pushed to redistribute profits from owners to workers. The supreme achievement of the political left is the welfare state, which redistributes resources as needed to take care of people from cradle to grave. Affirmative action redistributes opportunities. Taxing the rich to help the poor has been an enduring theme of the political left.
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