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4. How Political Definitions Shape Reality

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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The Left and Right Political Spectrum - Hierarchy Versus Equality

The only definition of left and right that clarifies an actual, real political division is hierarchy versus equality. The business groups want government to foster more economic hierarchy; the religious groups want the government to impose more cultural hierarchy. These different types of hierarchies reinforce each other in various ways so that those people will tend to coalesce with each other when faced with e galatarian coalitions. All these paradimes are part of a narrative designed to make you hate anything that might benefit workers at their expense.

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