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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.
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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.