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When you boil it down, being right wing means you value property rights over human rights, and left wing is vice versa. Right wing is maintaining wealth and power, and don't let anyone else get in the way of it.
It's deontological ethics vs keynesian ethics I think. That's why the left and right accuse each other for being based more in emotion than reason. Because from each's perspective, the other is doing something objectively wrong, when they have different moral systems in the first place.
Having said that, I prefer to value the well-being of people, over some archaic devotion to a piece of land, or letting humanity go extinct so that we can respect the rules of some weird game I didn't sign up for called "who grabs land first".
When you boil it down, being right wing means you value freedom and being left wing means you value making others work for you.
You can boil it down to whatever punchline you wish.
Wait the right doesn't have people working for them?
Freedom is a big word that without clarification doesn’t tell us much of what you believe in. I think you boiled it for too long.
Trump is a leftist then?
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