The two political wings really do reflect the sides of a cycle of expansion and consolidation. That we have a monist, linear, goal oriented belief system blinds the adherents of either wing from recognizing and acting on this.
Not every acorn gets to be an oak tree, but in the liberal camp one is required to acknowledge and affirm that nirvana will be reached when everyone has their particular cocoon of wants and needs fulfilled. The problem with this strategically, is that when you go after everything, you end up with nothing. Consequently the conservative side tends to beat them with some fairly outdated sticks, like several thousand year old religions and a predatory economic system, that ideologically sides with competition over cooperation, because in the immediate, competition trumps cooperation, because of the above mentioned reason.
So today’s liberalism is just a fig leaf that has been co-opted by the most predatory elements of the military industrial complex. Consider that Trump, as a business man, has made efforts to get out of the Middle East, because he doesn’t see any profit in it, but the supposedly liberal press, the ones that fed us “weapons of mass destruction,” in the lead up to the Iraq invasion, jump on him for abandoning gassed Syrian children, irrespective of the propaganda they seem to be the tools of.
That’s the problem with tribalism, where anything your side does, is, “for the cause” and can be excused, but anything the other side does is the work of the devil. I’m not trying to convince you that reality tends to be more complicated than our political emotions allow, but the fact is that the two sides dreams are equally delusional. Nature might be a bitch, but she is even more of a bitch when we don’t pay attention to what happens outside our belief systems.
If liberals could look outside emotion and realize that a functional society has to have some structure and rules, even if they are not perfect, then they might get more of a seat at the table, when it comes to occasionally updating those rules. Strategy.
Given the first step has to be an effective understanding that capitalism is not synonymous with a market based economy, rather than transgender rights, some of those deplorables might start taking them seriously and not call them snowflakes.
As for transgender rights, absolutism on the left only validates absolutism on the right. Sex is a binary, people are a spectrum.
