Conservatives don't like government, progressives see the potential. There are always mistakes and limitations to government, and conservatives a hyper focused on it, in their own way.
My psychoanalytical explanation is that often overbearing parents create a desire to be left alone. Also really selfish people don't like taxes or free riders. They'd rather have children starve instead of one person getting it who doesn't need it. The right would rather detain 170 citizens and catch one "illegal", an offensive term to the left (source)
I'm progressive, and feel very strongly that capitalism creates exaggerated winners and losers, and government can smooth out the excesses of capitalism.
Conservatives feel the greed motive really important in capitalism, they're afraid people won't be groveling or hungry enough to put up with asshole bosses if they get housing, food, education at discount prices. They have a real boner for unchecked capitalism and the inequalities they create. Trump is purposefully crashing the economy to exaggerate the winners and losers. The decreased power of the American currency will bring jobs back to the USA, he fantasizes. Like everything in politics, nobody is completely wrong or completely right. There's a Godel theorem of politics, because the perspectives of right and left can never be totally right, and personality is a sort of fixed aspect to people and there will always be these two perspectives. That's why the dialectic of democracy is so powerful, neither side decisively wins. Except when things become anti-democratic and one side cheats or changes the rules. Gerrymandering is cheating. Money for elections is cheating.
The examples are packing the supreme court by not giving Obama a seat, waiting till the Trump gets in. By not swearing in a duly elected representative to the people. By creating a secret force like the Gestapo and SS (source). We've never had authorities who had to cover their faces before. By sending in troops into cities, creating a war. Trump laughed about uniting the nation, he thrives of disunity. He just needs a few rich people to believe in him, the oligarchy.
Tyranny, fascism, nazism, authoritarianism, dictatorship is an autoimmune disorder. The body politic attacks itself. It's pathological.
The inherent rape of the people in this regime, is fittingly carried out by a convicted felon rapist and pedophile. It wasn't that long ago that the right was fantasizing about imaginary pedophilia rings, and you'd be on the left if you noticed this concern went poof, and disappeared. In the endless conversation between left and right, they will never completely see eye to eye. Just as Roosevelt created frustrated conservatives, so too, the orange transactional man creates left wing pendulum momentum. Trump is giving 40 billion to Argentina because the criminals need somewhere to flee when they lose power. Trump has said he's not going to heaven. He knows.
Noem, Stephen Miller, and others. If you google "who are the most evil people in Trump's administration, Google, which has swerved right, says it's a subjective term. The rule of law has to be suspended to establish it.
Fourteen million people are dying because Trump abolished USAID (source). Trump was happy to let 700k+ people die of Covid through his inaction (Right wing Forbes thinks 400k, it's political how you calculate it allegedly). It's a metaphysic to say they could have lived, because they're dead. It's a hazy vague administrative murder by lack of resources, something harder to grasp.
When I first heard about Freud's death instinct I was young and felt very strongly the urge to live. As I'm older now I understand the dark undertow of the death instinct, and being bad and killing people is what Trump wants. It's a death cult. That's why he's changed it back to the war department, because he wants to war, and death.
You ever stand in line and judge someone, wish they didn't exist? That's the murder instinct. Anger turned into action. Meanwhile Trump is unifying America in anger. Against him. If you've ever played Civilization, democracy doesn't like war, you have to overthrow it to go to war. Trump wants to take some land somewhere like his friend Putin has done over and over. The people generally don't vote for murder. That's why we just had the largest protest in American history.
This regime has the push it till we're taken out attitude.
