PoliTalker
Diversity Makes Greatness
I'm starting to develop a theory about being socially positive vs being socially negative.
And I think it ties into whether somebody is truly win/win or if they are hopelessly win/lose.
I hope I'm wrong about this, but it is beginning to look like conservatives are mostly win/lose, and liberals are win/win.
I did a bit of searching on this but I was unable to find anything that looked specifically at the relationship between win/win vs win/lose, and liberal vs conservative.
I don't know if it's real or just my perception.
Maybe it is just rare to be win/win, and as a liberal I focus my critical attention on conservatives, so when I see so many conservatives that appear to be win/lose that's what makes me think it's more common among conservatives. I certainly can't say there are not plenty of liberals who are win/lose.
But it just seems like favoring big business is all about win/lose, and favoring society is win/win.
And that reinforces my theory.
It's hard to imagine how negativity can lead to anything truly good. Achievement is wonderful. If that success depends on putting others down, that's not so wonderful. The road to success should be the result of hard work and making a contribution to society with something useful, not hurting others and suppressing their accomplishments.
Win/win is being socially positive, caring about what happens to society and others in that society.
Win/lose is about picking winners and losers, and trying to be the winner, thinking that: the only way somebody can win is if somebody else loses.
Capitalism produces win/lose thinking. But we need our socialism, too. And socialism is mostly win/win.
But there's room for win/win thinking in capitalism. It doesn't always have to be about win/lose. Actually, I think that's when capitalism is at it's worst, when it boils down to win/lose.
Capitalism can help a community or hurt it. We only want the helping, but it's pretty hard to avoid the hurting. Sometimes we have to use socialism to make up for the hurting of capitalism.
It's silly to think that capitalism is only about winning. We know it generates losers as it picks it's winners. That's why we've got to have socialism, liberalism and a way to spread the winning around.
The only lose part of socialism is the richest lose some of their gains, but never all, or even enough to make them losers. Even after taxing, the rich are still richer than everybody else.
Positive win/win liberals are good for society.
Negative win/lose conservatives are good for building wealth.
More than they ever need. That's why liberals need to stand up and be the social conscience for anti-social conservatives. Liberals need to be there to make sure conservatives make a positive contribution to society.
Without liberals America would end up being a few very pampered and privileged powerful people, and a lot of sadly lacking people who suffer for the excesses of a few. And that's just not right. It's not what America was supposed to be about.
Because liberal philosophy is all about win/win. Just like the Preamble to our Constitution.
And I think it ties into whether somebody is truly win/win or if they are hopelessly win/lose.
I hope I'm wrong about this, but it is beginning to look like conservatives are mostly win/lose, and liberals are win/win.
I did a bit of searching on this but I was unable to find anything that looked specifically at the relationship between win/win vs win/lose, and liberal vs conservative.
I don't know if it's real or just my perception.
Maybe it is just rare to be win/win, and as a liberal I focus my critical attention on conservatives, so when I see so many conservatives that appear to be win/lose that's what makes me think it's more common among conservatives. I certainly can't say there are not plenty of liberals who are win/lose.
But it just seems like favoring big business is all about win/lose, and favoring society is win/win.
And that reinforces my theory.
It's hard to imagine how negativity can lead to anything truly good. Achievement is wonderful. If that success depends on putting others down, that's not so wonderful. The road to success should be the result of hard work and making a contribution to society with something useful, not hurting others and suppressing their accomplishments.
Win/win is being socially positive, caring about what happens to society and others in that society.
Win/lose is about picking winners and losers, and trying to be the winner, thinking that: the only way somebody can win is if somebody else loses.
Capitalism produces win/lose thinking. But we need our socialism, too. And socialism is mostly win/win.
But there's room for win/win thinking in capitalism. It doesn't always have to be about win/lose. Actually, I think that's when capitalism is at it's worst, when it boils down to win/lose.
Capitalism can help a community or hurt it. We only want the helping, but it's pretty hard to avoid the hurting. Sometimes we have to use socialism to make up for the hurting of capitalism.
It's silly to think that capitalism is only about winning. We know it generates losers as it picks it's winners. That's why we've got to have socialism, liberalism and a way to spread the winning around.
The only lose part of socialism is the richest lose some of their gains, but never all, or even enough to make them losers. Even after taxing, the rich are still richer than everybody else.
Positive win/win liberals are good for society.
Negative win/lose conservatives are good for building wealth.
More than they ever need. That's why liberals need to stand up and be the social conscience for anti-social conservatives. Liberals need to be there to make sure conservatives make a positive contribution to society.
Without liberals America would end up being a few very pampered and privileged powerful people, and a lot of sadly lacking people who suffer for the excesses of a few. And that's just not right. It's not what America was supposed to be about.
Because liberal philosophy is all about win/win. Just like the Preamble to our Constitution.