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Simple way to distinguish right and left wing

People use the terms right and left wing with only an intuitive understanding. This post clarifies. Right wing: a. Low empathy for people having difficult lives or difficult experiences, and victim-blaming; e.g. women and GBV (claiming that "they wear the wrong clothes"), the poor are to blame for their own poverty because they're "lazy" or they "must pick themselves up by the bootstraps". b. High levels of individualism and self-pride, insistence on the notion of being "self-made", disregarding their social context and accidents of birth. c. Low levels of tolerance for change. "Conservative" means to conserve or resist change, to preserve. Insistence on "traditional family values", or "religious morality" or some "glorious past" which we want to "go back to" (MAGA). E.g. women's place is at home maintaining the home. d. Small government, low levels of government intervention (usually). Pe