Thread by @MongoSlade8

The Right is motivated by the two Gs: God and Green (money)
The Left is motivatied by the two Ps: Power and Privilege (entitlement)

Everything boils down to God or Green on the Right, Power or Privileges on the Left. (1)
Allow me to elaborate.

On the Right is the bulk of the U.S. pro-family religious zealots (mostoy Christian and Jews) Anything which affects the household offends them: sex, abortion, divorce, out of wedlock childbirths, etc. If you can make a successful God argument you can win them over. (2)

The God folks are tough to win over, they are the most stout group in the U.S. but are weak against sympathy. This is how the Left utilized immigration in attacking them. Show crying babies (or mamas) and the God group will cave. The family is sacrosanct. Its a weakness (3)

The Green group is literally everything else. The military-industrial complex, megacorporations, guns all fall here.
The Greens offend the Gods because to the Greens, nothing is more important than cui bono (who benefits). The Godly see them as corruptible and hypocritical (4)

Its true. The Greens will side w/ whatever the money says. The Green Right will support whatever the bank account suggests. Guns, Taxes, Small Gov't, it will all be subverted with the right amount of cash. This doesn't mean they're corrupt, though, it means they've negotiated (5)

Negotiation isn't just about taking the biggest and best deal, because while money is important, short term money might not be as important as long term money. Taking the cash today is probably not worth the cash coming in later. (6)

Some issues lose money and aren't worth the risk anymore (gay marriage, which the Godly are still fighting, was a money loser, so the GOP dropped it). So yeah, they can be bought off but the price has to be right and the risk has to make sense. Its a measured approach. (7)

The Left is all about Power. Who has it, who can get it and what you can do with it. The obsession with democratic institutions is chief among them (unions, bureaucracy) because its large numbers, and more numbers equal more power. Coalitions are king, thus the unity rhetoric (8)

The more people you can amass, the more power you can get, the more of your ideas you can smash through. The Supreme Court is a big power broker for them and thus they spaz out about it so much. The SC can make law from the bench (New Deal, Obamacare, Gay Marriage) its numbers (9

The weakness of this is that they often require individual sacrifices. In order for the group to get power, someone has to lose or kowtow to what the group wants. Contradicting the group is dangerous. The bigger the group the more sacrifices needed for the agenda
(10)

Blacks had to sacrifice so the Hispanics could be the favored group. Women sidelined the men, the gays pushed the straights aside and the transpeople are more important than the gays. All are expected to know this when the time comes to distribute winnings the group amassed (11)

The group is sacrosanct. They will quickly destroy any individual which challenges it (Black men most recently, ya know "the white people of black people"). Destroying the individual shows loyalty to the group, cut off the finger to save the hand. (12)

Privilege is something different. Privilege is about entitlements and what people think they're entitled to. Free housing, healthcare, water, etc all fall under this group. The group seeks to grant privileges to their favored groups, crumbs, sure but guaranteed funds (13)

The group has to benefit everyone so there needs to be enough privileges for all. Guaranteeing people jobs (patronage), incomes (welfare), housing, healthcare are all spoils from group conquest. Its not because they care but because they know they need the numbers to win (14)

Often individuals step out of line with the group, and when they do they get their privileges taken. The group turns against them with fervor, everyone hates an apostate. This gives them the appearance of jackals to those on the outside. They can be horrible and cruel (15)

Big numbers make it easy to hide your cruelty because you're just going along with the group. Most don't notice their own inhumanity or the loss of their individual spirit. Others don't care, they want the bounty promised them, guaranteed winnings. (16)

Often individuals feel betrayed when the group gives away winnings to others. Understand its the GROUP'S winnings NOT yours (so when blacks complain about the Civil Rights Act applying to gays or transgenders, or illegals they get shouted down). Its the GROUP who won not YOU (17)

Its not a betrayal to them, the others are part of the group, you're expected to share, even if there was not equal effort put in. Men build a business, and a woman can take it. It belongs to the GROUP, not to any individual. Understand that and you understand the Left (18)

I hope this has been helpful to people still trying to figure things out. Your path to success, your values likely fall somewhere in the 4 boxes presented. Yes, there's a great deal of overlap but this is the bare bones of it all. (19)

The Green Right makes no move without consideration of investment vs loss. The Godly Right considers what God taught.
The Power Left seeks coalitions to increase their numbers. The Privileged Left always hunt for new bounty to disperse among their group.
Understand it. Thanks.

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