It's weird to me how one common thread among right identifying people is a core belief that humans are inherently selfish if not outright evil. I think this is the core of what separates people on the left and right.
We hear the horror stories all day and experience disappointments in our own lives and so it's easy to come to that conclusion, but there is overwhelming evidence from psychology, sociology, economics, philosophy and even evolutionary biology that selfishness and/or evil are not the default state of man. There are aspects of our experience where selfishness guides us and we have great capacity for "evil," insofar as that means destructiveness, disregard, or cruelty, but those tendencies are typically embraced by the very few in the grand scheme of humanity.
I think if you operate from the premise that we are atomized individuals fighting to stay alive in a wild, untamed world governed by selfishness and beset on all sides by evil, there are only two options politically: an every man for himself ideology where the spirit of cooperatism is abandoned due to distrust or totalitarianism to ensure the "wrong kind" of people are purged from society. That is a grim calculus.
The spirit of classical anarchism, which@sparkuri brought up, is premised on the idea that humanity is fundamentally good and will engage in mutual aid. It's best articulated by Peter Kropotkin, Mikhail Bakunin and Pierre Joseph Proudhon, all of whom distrusted the idea of "the state," mostly because of bureaucratization and its distance from localized human interaction. The modern libertarian movement, hailing from thinkers like Robert Nozick or Ayn Rand, simply replaces the apparatus of state with the notion of a market, but denies the imbalances in that market that ultimately make it the same type of bureaucracy under a different name. Adam Smith, the father of free market ideoligy, is more ancestral to the anarchists than the libertarians. His companion book to The Wealth of Nations, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, articulates his vision of a world of mutual dependence and justice, which he believed was innate, though often suppressed.
This community's evolution has basically proven that there is a general bias toward goodness, a need for some central planning in governance, a tendency toward cooperatism, and a strong desire for justice. You could argue there's some selection bias involved, but it's not bad as a case study of socialism.
Yet from my house, it seems like the left leaning folks in the shadow government are the ones orchestrating genocide, GMO's, abortion, Africa's starvation, Agenda 21....complete population control and the belief that us "mouth breathers" need to trim down to 2 billion for a mutually eco-friendly earth/human companionship.
That's "science", and the good-natured left, calling humans parasites of the earth themselves.
It's Jonestown/Hitler mentality.
