| LEFT Communitarian, Groupthink | MIDDLE and OTHER Broad spectrum | RIGHT Libertarian, Individualist |
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Reflexive motivation:
The left needs security in community. Because of psychological projection, leaders are believed
to have the same motivation -- putting community first.
An animal kingdom model is the herd. The herd will always be accompanied by a herder, who is also their predator and not usually himself a communitarian. In political terms, the herd is the Proletariat and the herders the Elite, those that are "more equal"; government will be the shim between Elitei or Bourgeoisie (the owners of production; above the government) and Proletariat (below the government, feeding it and benefiting from it). Social control is shame, shun and other rewards and punishments. A premium is placed on conformity to the herd. |
Reflexive motivation: The right puts more faith in SELF to provide security.
Psychological projection will suggest to the right that leaders probably ought not
to be leaders; as they will be presumed to be serving their own
interests first. Out of recognition to avoid chaos, Leaders will be chosen for
topical or subject-matter expertse and have a specific role or duty that comes into
existence thereby. Social status is broad-spectrum and largely earned through one's own
efforts. Social control will be somewhat limited to self-defense and agreements on
areas of possible conflict, such as highway safety rules and regulations.
A premium is placed on liberty. I consider it probable that all leaders are "right" even when leading a large herd of "left". |
Left and right speak to community versus self, liberal versus conservative speak to "liberated" from rules and conformity, or "conserving" established traditions.
It is entirely possible to be a liberal leftist or a conservative leftist; also a liberal rightist or a conservative rightist. If we replace "leftist" with "communitarian" and "rightist" with "libertarian" then it makes a bit more sense.
A liberal communitarian will try the newest fads in making communities more equal. These experiments are almost certainly doomed, expensive and coercive; leading to the derisive label of "liberal" for such persons.
A conservative communitarian will stick to the plan laid down by Karl Marx, who was of course a liberal communitarian in his own day, but has become conservative through antiquity. Not many of this kind exist since Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism have all failed.
A liberal libertarian will do whatever he or she wants without adherence to any particular set of rules or morals. Another word for this kind is "anarchist". This kinds tends to be "amoral" and succeeds for a time as leaders of the left, where their lack of rulebook and internal morals allows them to pretend to be pretty much anything.
A conservative libertarian will conserve a set of ethics, morals or rules and tend to heed those rules. This kind neither wants nor needs "leaders"; the rules are "in the book". This kind places faith in principles rather than people; and the purpose of those principles will be to elevate, educate, and make perfect a person (self). Only when "self" is educated and made perfect can he or she become useful to society.
Conflict vectors:. Seems to me that the largest conflict opportunities are going to be between liberal communitarians, their social control imperative and lack of fixed moral compass, coming into conflict with conservative libertarians, who have a fixed moral compass and resist social control.
Myers-Briggs MBTI Alignments: It is possible, maybe probable, that The MBTI "E/I" vector aligns with the groupiness of the leftist communitarian ("E") versus the individualistic sense of the rightist libertarian ("I"). It is also probable that "liberal/conservative" relates to the "F/T" axis, with liberal related to "feeling" and conservative related to "thinking". Reasoning: Liberals do not conform to documented rules, they DO respond to leaders and situations emotionally. This suggests a dominant "F" (feeling). Conservatives conform to documented rules and do NOT respond well to leaders, suggesting a dominant "T" (thinking), which is a function of reading books, learning rules and obeying them.
As such, we might lay it out like this:
EF: liberal communitarian (leftist, common)
ET: conservative communitarian (leftist, rare)
IF: liberal libertarian (right wing anarchist, common)
IT: conservative libertarian (right wing traditionalist, common)
Colloqial meanings:
"You are a liberal" means I don't like you and you just make up facts as you need them.
"You are a conservative" means I don't like you and your slick argument still does not change my mind.
"I am a liberal" means I am not going to obey you, but I might obey a famous Leader or movie celebrity.
"I am a conservative" means I am not going to obey you, but I might obey a documented moral reference (Bible, Constitution).
Sources: My brain and five decades of living. To be sure I have also used a great many references as to the traditional meaning of "left" and "right", conservative and liberal. Book meanings are fairly stable, but in common use, "liberal" and "conservative" change meanings every few months.