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Emerson said of the left and right, "Each is a good half, but an impossible whole." In public affairs, the left traditionally pushes for political, economic and social progress, while the right steers towards individual opportunity, stability, tradition and the maintenance of gains already made. Their disagreement is the basis of most of our political discourse.
Drawing on four decades of field research on partisan conflicts in the U.S., Northern Ireland and Israel, the author provides a clear, concise explanation of how the left and right think and why their respective philosophies reflect competing views of human nature.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. What's Happening to Us?
Secret Money
Undermining the Electorate
Why It Happened
Reformers of the Left and Right
Nowhere Else to Go
White Supremacists
Necessary Reforms
Questions for You
2. Left and Right
Fixing Society
Criticisms of the Left
Criticisms of the Right
Charges and Counter Charges
Blind Spots
Illegal Politics
Questions for You
3. Foundations of Politics
New Words for Old Ideas
Eternal Questions
Outside Threats
A Poor People's Conference
Questions for You
4. Personal Experiences
The Function of Ideologies
Learning Political Values
An Autobiography of a Liberal
An Autobiography of a Conservative
Advantages and Disadvantages
Morality
Questions for You
5. Expectations and Deprivations
Role of the Central Government
Constitutionalism
Setting the Scenario
Consequences
Post-World War II (1945 to the Present)
Unfinished Business
Attacking the System
Success and Anger
Questions for You
6. Left-Wing Values
What They Believe
In Their Own Words
Basic Problems for the Left
Saul Alinsky
Revolutionaries on the Left
Problems for Revolutionary Radicals
The Communist Party
Questions for You
7. Right-Wing Values
What They Believe
In Their Own Words
Basic Problems for the Right
Mitt Romney
Revolutionaries on the Right
Problems for Revolutionary Reactionaries
The Ku Klux Klan
Questions for You
8. Ideas and People Move to the Right
Public Reactions
Self-Interest
Betrayal of Principles
Revolution of the Right or Left?
The Flip-Flop
More or Less Freedom?
Negative and Positive Freedom
The New Reactionaries
The New Radicals
Questions for You
9. Moderates, Activists, and Extremists
Moderates: Liberals and Conservatives
Moderates: Characteristics in Common
Activists: Radicals and Reactionaries
Activists: Characteristics in Common
Extremists: Revolutionary Radicals & Revolutionary Reactionaries
Extremists: Characteristics in Common
Questions for You
10. Beyond Ideology
Left and Right
Predictability
Political Manners
Trump versus Anti-Trump
A Recipe for Disaster
The Dark Corners of America
Questions for You
Bibliography
Index
