Original post by TheCitizenActIf you believe feeling good about yourself is more important than doing good, you belong on the left. I encourage you to stay there.
It's the biggest political fallacy of our time that 'left-wing' is conflated with 'caring.' The left supported fascism all throughout the 20's and 30's - many policies within the Fascist Manifesto are policies of modern left-wing political parties. In the US, the left established the KKK, and voted against the abolishment of slavery; Republicans saw it through.
'Caring' precipitated the banking crisis by offering loans to under qualified borrowers. The left's altruism is synonymous with many, many negative qualities, including prioritising their own group ahead of all others, even in light of rational observation, even when it happens to run contrary to any conceptualisation of individual liberty.
Left-wing economic models are fundamentally, unequivocally dehumanising. They determine individuals aren't individuals, but categories - he or she is the product of the state, as are his or her economic outcomes. That's NOT moral, that's not even sensible.
Every left-wing policy - well, to be accurate, left-wing and progressive policy - is orientated around the group, greater centralisation of power and control. They argue nothing other than imagined identities - 'black', 'white', 'homosexual', 'male', 'female', and see you as nothing more than your imagined or perceived identity.
Every safe space, near every restriction on freedom of speech originating from a university, comes from a progressive - don't have a uterus? You aren't qualified to talk abortion. Opposed to immigration? You conflict with our feelings - you're banned.
They complain incessantly about the expenses scandal, or HoL reform, yet all they ever argue is for more power to be centralised in fewer hands. The EU is the best example of progressive tyrannical rule, with little democratic accountability.
Everything is an appeal to emotional rhetoric, not logic. Feelings are their logic, logic is their blasphemy. Dead 3 year old children aren't beyond exploitation. All they ever do is derive a sense of moral superiority from their position; 'we are selfless', everyone else is 'selfish.' In reality, the right is principally just a reflection of the state of nature, and the left is orientated around change - and any change will do. It's why both Stalin and Hitler loathed liberal individualism and laissez faire capitalism, much like the left.
n.b. I wouldn't even classify myself as 'right-wing', quite a few self-proclaimed right-wingers are f**ktards. I would classify myself as veering towards libertarianism and opposed to group think and progressivism.