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An intemperate spiel inspired by a set of comments on some one else’s facebook page:

It is necessary to be clear on the general differences between right and left wing thought.

Right wing thought is always about defending and supporting hierarchies first and boundaries second. It is usually about defending established hierarchies. In the US and Australia, that is about defending plutocracy, but it can be about strengthening older hierarchies, such as military, theocratic, racial, or gender hierarchy amongst others.

Left wing thought is about weakening hierarchies and establishing some kind of close to egalitarian organisation. The problem with Left wing thought is that if it gets established through revolution then its supporters can try and support the new hierarchies, such as the party or whatever. Success means the left is in danger of becoming right wing.

Centrist thought could be about balancing the hierarchies off against each other; recognising them but weakening them, but it usually isn’t.

In the US and Australia, right wing thought, as said above, is nearly always about strengthening the power of the wealthy and the corporate sector.

It may be disguised in other language, such as ‘liberty’, but this always comes down to the liberty of the wealthy to do what they like and the poor to accept what they are told. The right may talk about ‘free markets’, but this always means that any control the workers may exert on the corporate sector is an interference with the market and has to be abolished, while any control the corporate sector may exert over the workers is the market in action and eventually for the workers’ own good.

Logically for the Right, everyone with enough sense and talent is able to get wealthy, and people are only poor because they are talentless, stupid or feckless. And as talentless, stupid or feckless people they should be left to rot. The only thing holding them back from the good life is themselves. Any support for them, other than grovel-demanding charity, will corrupt them even further.

However, support for the wealthy is just support for talent, so that’s pretty cool. Every wealthy person has earned their wealth. They rightly own everything produced by the people they pay. Wealthy people are wonderful, unless they disagree with rightwing theory, in which case they are ‘elites’.

If we have to maintain a level of unemployment to keep costs to business low, or use tax-payer funded food stamps to keep workers alive, and costs to business low, then great. Wages are always a drag on profits and to be eliminated if possible, except for the wages of high level executives of course, because talent deserves to get paid. Hierarchy and worker’s dependence needs protecting.

As plutocracy is wonderful, it should be extended to all institutions. Churches should only count if they make money – voluntary poverty is just stupid. Good churches will say wealth is a mark of God’s favour. Schools should have to make money, and wealthy schools are simply good schools. Education is a privilege not a right. If you can’t afford a good school, you are obviously stupid. Medical treatment should be about service to those good people who can pay, everyone else is trash. Medical care is a privilege. If you can’t afford privilege you don’t deserve it – even if the rest of us catch your plague. Universities should be run by managers and seek profit; research should aim to boost the private sector or be aimed at issuing patents for university profit. Students should be passed if they pay, because that is what they have paid for. Any idea that education should be about cultivation of the soul or gaining knowledge or whatever, is completely dumb.

Note that the only purpose of life is to get rich and to please employers. All of your education should be about increasing your obedience to employers and the wealthy. That way you will do well.

As plutocracy is good, profit is good. In the US, who cares if a few people get murdered or die by accident with guns if it makes a profit for arms manufacturers? Who would stop arms manufacturers from selling weapons to terrorists or our countries’ enemies? Who would stop them selling to people with convictions for violence or mental disease? Anyone who would propose lessening the profit of arms manufacturers by even a little, must be communists trying to stop profit altogether and take guns away from everyone. They must want to leave us helpless.

Likewise who cares if we destroy the environment if it makes a profit? Poison the air, then sell people air filters and oxygen; everyone benefits and more profit is made. All is good. If coal is profitable, then sell it. Let’s not worry about government subsidy of something destructive, its all good profit. If you can’t live anywhere because of the pollution and eco-system breakdown, that just means you were inferior to begin with. Living in a functional ecology is a privilege not a right. If you were good you would have bought that privilege. You could have bought property high above the waterline or on a cruise ship, or hired your own private army.

Wealth, however, is not a privilege it is the right of wealthy people and cannot be challenged. If you are wealthy, you should have every privilege you can pay for, if you are poor you should also have what you can pay for, and nothing else.

Profit for the wealthy solves all problems. Indeed no other solution to any kind of problem should be proposed.

Without maximum profit everything dies, the capitalist system collapses, the hierarchy collapses, so we can’t lower profit, and must support profit at any other cost and that includes the death of talentless poorer people.

The further thing, is that right wingers know what is best for everyone. Everyone has to do what we say or suffer. If you don’t please the wealth elite, you don’t deserve anything. If I think you are a man I’ll address you as a man, no matter what you think or want. If I think you are an ape then I’ll address you as an ape. If you object, you clearly have mental issues and are in need of assistance so you can come to think like me…. That way everything will work all RIGHT.

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