…left wingers generally like to point out how the current individual owners arrived at their ownership and any injustices which paved the way. Often pedantically focusing on minor details and making a mockery of their own position.
…right wingers like to point out how anyone can arrive at the top, but prefer to discard evidence of the percentage of folks who are able to do it, instead focusing on exceptions as the rule.
To expand, left wingers analyze current events as a historical process and as an actionable future plan, considering current ownership itself unjust regardless of historical context, though certainly not made any better when combined with it. I don’t really see many making a mockery of their own position.
Right wingers do falsely claim that anyone can arrive at the top, they typically do so through some failed idea of meritocracy.
Good additions. I actually struggled to find a good way to criticize the left because I am extremely left-leaning myself. I caught myseld writing a “cons bad” post and decided to attack the weaknesses I see in left-wing politics as a bit of a self-challenge, tho admittedly with only about two minutes of consideration. Judging by the points on the post my perspective is not very popular.
Tbh I should give this more thought, finding flaws in your own positions is a harder exercise than I realized. I’ll have to explore and flesh out these ideas a bit more.
In regards to said ownership. It seems like…
…left wingers generally like to point out how the current individual owners arrived at their ownership and any injustices which paved the way. Often pedantically focusing on minor details and making a mockery of their own position.
…right wingers like to point out how anyone can arrive at the top, but prefer to discard evidence of the percentage of folks who are able to do it, instead focusing on exceptions as the rule.
Both are unreasonable in their own ways.
To expand, left wingers analyze current events as a historical process and as an actionable future plan, considering current ownership itself unjust regardless of historical context, though certainly not made any better when combined with it. I don’t really see many making a mockery of their own position.
Right wingers do falsely claim that anyone can arrive at the top, they typically do so through some failed idea of meritocracy.
Good additions. I actually struggled to find a good way to criticize the left because I am extremely left-leaning myself. I caught myseld writing a “cons bad” post and decided to attack the weaknesses I see in left-wing politics as a bit of a self-challenge, tho admittedly with only about two minutes of consideration. Judging by the points on the post my perspective is not very popular.
Tbh I should give this more thought, finding flaws in your own positions is a harder exercise than I realized. I’ll have to explore and flesh out these ideas a bit more.