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The Biology of the Right-Left Divide pt. 1

Fight Like An Animal

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The Core Themes of the Right Left

Two truly enduring core themes of right left politics are attitudes toward social change in general and attitudes toward inequality. People seem willing to adopt whatever positions on more peripheral issues arene ay for them to take the side that they prefer, writes David Frum. As a peripheral issue people have proven perfectly capable of arguing sides of this question as if their motivation was like a rational moral calculation othe question itself. So when opposition to federal control meant opposition to integrating schools, so nance of inequality and a resistance to change, conservatives were opposed to federal control. When state control over cities means the ability to prevent a minimum wage increases, again, a maintenance of inequality anda resistance to change,. long as

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