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How is the US economic system unregulated?
Do you know what causes sociopathy(Antisocial Personality Disorder)?
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What you wrote here seems to me like a bog-standard leftist viewpoint about the right. I don't see how you get from this to your claim that the left "has got it all wrong" since from your post you seem to think the opposite: that the standard leftist construction of the right is correct. >

I am saying less about the Right and more about the impact unregulated capitalism has on the people of America. IT is the problem. IT destroys empathy by its very nature. The Right is not wrong for wanting to be successful in life but ALL Americans have been taught very negative traits as a means of becoming successful. >

Your view as stated in your title is that the left "has got it all wrong when trying to understand and deal with the right." Is this not actually your view? If this is your view, what exactly do you think the Left has got wrong, and how do you think what the Left thinks is different from your position? >

That was a reference to brainwashing and thinking the other side must be stupid. Both sides can't imagine how the other side can think the way they do. That is one way the left has it wrong. 
The other is that people like Pelosi and Biden have all benefited from unregulated Capitalism just as much as those on the right. The left are fighting issues but aren't acknowledging the real problem. The destruction of empathy by the very ideology we praise. >

But it's not true that the left can't imagine how the other side can think the way they do. The left doesn't believe the right is brainwashed or stupid; they generally believe the right is racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, transphobic, and generally in favor of power hierarchies. That seems to be totally in line with what you wrote. >

I have heard on many occasions that the left believe the right are "poor white people who have been brainwashed to fear socialism and want to stick it to the libs so they vote against their own best interests and that they are too dumb or too brainwashed to know they are voting against their own best interests" My point was that they are voting for what they want and they want it because many generations of unregulated Capitalism has destroyed Americans empathy. >

What makes you think that the left has this wrong? You say that both sides believe the other is brainwashed, which apparently is wrong. You then go on to explain all the ways that our society has trained people to think in a certain way, which leads them to right wing ideology without them realizing. Sounds pretty similar to brainwashing to me. 
Also, there is more nuance here. There are a lot of people who are fully individualistic, but that's far from all republicans. Something like 60% of republicans surveyed thought that their party was for a 15$ minimum wage. There's a lot of voters in this country that are actually totally unaware of the issues at hand and what their party stands for. >

I am not saying it leads them to right wing ideology, I am saying unregulated Capitalism  leads Americans to negative behavior such as greed and lust for power by rewarding those negative behaviors and that the outcome of this is a nation without empathy.
My post is also suggesting that the left and right are not so different. They both are suffering from the same problems associated with unregulated Capitalism. >

If you pay that much attention to the right you must have picked up on the fact they want less government than you do.  The want bottom up government and the right wants top down, too heavy.
The wants to use the federal government as the tool to solve problems.  The right thinks big movement is the biggest problem.
The left wants to induce social change, leveraging government.. The right wants government to reflect where society is and follow it.
In that context, it's disingenuous to have the takeaways you have come away with, IMV.   Its similarly disingenuous of them right to draw the complementary about them left. >

I am not making claims about anything a side wants except as to give examples. I am not talking about differences. I am simply saying America's biggest problem isn't any of that, it is unregulated Capitalism. It rewards Americans for having greed and a lust for power. It destroys empathy and creates a nation of sociopaths. >

And I'm saying you understanding of the right, as described in you post, is inaccurate, that is somplistic.  So whatever conclusions you draw from those inaccurate characterizations is suspect. >

Yeah, these sound like pretty average boilerplate leftist talking points. I don't understand how this means that the left has it all wrong? >

Hi, as someone who leans right in terms of politics but left in terms of ideals, I'll try to explain a couple points but I am pretty odd in my views so take everything with a grain of salt.
I agree fully about the proposition of opposition making it difficult to talk with the other side, and I believe this is because we are talking to much as a nation on an emotional level instead of a logical one. For example, instead of talking about the differing beliefs we have, we should instead focus on what we have in common as a nation, and then focus on disagreements. For example, we all want to be a safe, secure nation we just need to find common ground on how to bring this about, before we focus on things we disagree on.
The state on right side belief on money is partially true. Most of my friends/family that are right wing actually give away a lot of money to charity, and the difference between that and helping through government is they like to know where their money is going. For example, if its in taxes they do not know if it is helping someone that might be abusing the system verses a local charity they know personally is run by good people and will put it to good use. It isn't that they don't care, it's that they want to make sure what they care about is being done.
I personally disagree about the whole segregation bit, everyone I know supports equal rights for all races, sexes, and belief systems. I'm sure there are people who are not like this and claim right wing, but I can't speak for everyone even if I wish I could. About the police forces, again everyone I know is for police reform and supporting better practices that don't abuse anyone at all while keeping the people safe. As far as the gun laws, most right wing are for gun laws that restrict guns to sane individuals, with sane limits on the gun's power, while still maintaining the ability to defend oneself from others.
Also, your facts on capitalism is wrong, the US capitalism system is in fact regulated. Could the regulations be better? Of course, everything can be improved and no one denies that every system has it's faults and the nation will hopefully cause more improvements down the line, but how to do these improvements is not something I have studied, and sadly can't hold a good discussion about. 
To bring it back around to the conclusion, I feel like everyone has greed, and this is not caused by capitalism as we can look in history and see multiple greedy dictators, and their subordinates, from other economic systems, however greed and a lust for power is always driving people apart and will most likely continue as it is in human nature and we can only do the best we can personally to create a better nation for ourselves, our loved ones, and people as a whole. >

Greed and lust for power are natural traits of humans as a species. Culture however can enhance or dampen traits to some degree. The "average" American has been taught by our culture that they will be rewarded significantly by leaning into negative traits such as greed and a lust for power. This opposes empathy and impacts the lives of all Americans directly in a very negative way. 
I also mentioned in my post some regulations that are currently on Capitalism and said it needed much more regulation. It is unregulated in its drive to destroy empathy and reward greed and the lust for power. >

I think you may be mistaking being taught to have a drive for success as greed or a lust for power. Again, I cant speak for all members of America, but in my personal experience and those that are around me have all been taught to be motivated as well as earnest in helping those around us. 
As for the remark on Capitalism, it is a economic system and does no desire to destroy/create, it is merely a tool that can be used for good or bad, and has its flaws just like other economic systems. >


Those that vote Republican don't want their taxes to be used to help other Americans. They are directly apposed to "their" money going to help anyone in the world other than them.

If you believe these two statements are saying roughly the same thing, then yes, you do have it all wrong.
Conservatives are not opposed to helping so much as they are opposed to taxes. For conservatives - particularly those of a religious character - helping others is commanded by nothing less than their highest principles. It's generally well established that conservatives give more to charity than liberals. If conservatives were opposed to using their money to help others, their charitable giving would make no sense.
Conservatives view the "safety net" as being family, church, community, and government, in that order. Liberals view the "safety net" as being primarily the government's job, with little want or need for other parties. Conservatives, furthermore, view the liberals' focus on government as actively harmful to family, church, and community. That, plus their belief that government welfare doesn't actually help people in the long run, explains a lot of conservatives' opposition to government programs.
Of course, your thinking doesn't seem to account for any of that, preferring to see conservatives as cartoonishly evil lapdogs of some form of capitalism that doesn't even exist. That's fine, although it does make it rather hard to challenge your view when you are they very thing that you want us to convince you isn't real. >

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The delta is an acknowledgment that people on the right do donate money to help people. I got carried away and lost my own empathy for a moment...
However, the point of my post still stands. Religious people who donate don't want that money going to the government because they are against gay people being helped and black people being helped and people who don't work being helped and people with mental illness being helped and illegal immigrants being helped and so on. Again, this is all a symptom of unregulated Capitalism destroying empathy and rewarding greed and the lust for power. They are trying to decide who gets help and how and who doesn't and that is part of the lust for power and control of money and the lack of empathy toward those who don't fit into their ideal of a "worthy" person. >

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I think it has to do with propaganda. 
Conservative politicians, now, often fabricate controversy so they can be the ones to find a solution. That way, they don't have to address the other problems they're actively creating with their very harmful policies. 
Republicans are often seen as taking action (on nonsense culture-war bullshit, but still) while Democrats are often seen as reacting or dismissing. If this is what you meant you're right. 
But honestly, 
You have to dismiss some of this crap. Just because your opponent makes up an issue that's very important to them, doesn't mean you have to address said made up issue. 
It's unfortunate because a lot of us want to have these open discussions and want to actually solve problems like stopping kids from dying in schools, that's a bipartisan issue and everyone wants to solve the problem. The politicians and the media don't. Some are actively paid to make the problem worse, and others are spreading propaganda just to get a reaction.
Since the dawn of right-wing media and their "alternative facts" Republicans have been trying to pass off differing opinions, not as opinions, but as facts. And frankly, it makes having political discourse impossible. I firmly believe the onus is not on the left or the Democrats to try and see eye to eye with those who have a false sense of reality, rather it's up to those spreading the false reality to fucking stop. 
Tldr:
Our political discourse is no longer "the right says this, and the left disagrees," it's now, "the right says the election was stolen despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and the left refuses to accept their made up fact."
And I'm sorry, it's not up to us to meet them in their reality, it's up to them to come back to reality. >

My point is that everything you've said is more of the symptoms of the underlying problem. That underlying problem is the destruction of empathy in Americans brought about by the rewards given by unregulated Capitalism that value greed and lust for power. Who cares about "reality" when your goal is greed and power? Who cares about facts when you have no empathy and no reward for acknowledging truth? Who cares about the constitution when you're a sociopath? >

As a whole,
Conservatives are less empathetic than liberals. 
I think the issue has to do with capitalism, obviously, someone's making money off of the propaganda. But also, that just skirts the propaganda issue. You can solve the propaganda issue without having to address capitalism. >


That "they" must be brainwashed and mentally deficient, not understanding the reality of life.

I think you're looking at something specific and generalizing too broadly with it. People on the left will often criticize rightwing media for propaganda and mis/disinformation (you yourself reference scaremongering, which is an example of this), but it's not the end-all-be-all of the average republican voter. Yes, heavy MAGA-ists are deeply affected by deception and believe batshit things, and there's a smaller degree to which that's suffused to GOP in general. But that doesn't mean republican voters aren't also following their values.

They are directly apposed to "their" money going to help anyone in the world other than them. That's why they fear monger on even the word socialism. They are afraid for their guns and feel we threaten that freedom directly. They want the politicians to make laws specifically to favor male, white, christian nationalist. They want segregation. They want the legal right to oppress those who are not like them.

Your whole post is about how people on the left make mistakes when attempting to empathize with the right. It seems like you're saying something like: "People on the left value egalitarianism, so they assume conservatives also primarily value egalitarianism but are attempting to pursue egalitarian goals in a ludicrously ineffective way."
But actually this thing I've quoted here is a better example of how failures of empathy go. The left can tell conservatives want something different from themselves. But the problem comes when deciding what ASPECTS of each issue are central. For instance, in the issue of taxing for government welfare, you could easily center that issue on "helping people who need help," but you can also center the issue on "taking money from people who earned it."  Very few people think it's BAD to help someone who needs help or that it's GOOD to take money from people who earned it. So the question is which aspect you consider most important. (there's also the question of scale: "HOW MUCH is appropriate to take or give?" which will also vary person to person, but let's keep it simple for now.)
Now, I (like you) think it's pretty egregious to prioritize the "taking money" part over the "helping" part. I care a lot about helping! But I acknowledge that's what's going on, and conservatives aren't just going around happy or uncaring that poor people suffer.