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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.
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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.