this is something that's always bothered me

[anarch]

I think I can succinctly summarize the goals of progressive liberalism: to organize society in a sustainable way that most equitably benefits all members of that society, with the goal of maintaining peace and prosperity that can be handed down to future generations.

The right wing? As best as I can put it, their goal seems to be to create a system that effectively maintains the concentration of wealth for the privileged few, and most efficiently allows that privileged ruling class to continue to extract wealth from the poor huddled masses--and the best way to do that seems to be to ensure that the lower classes are set at each others' throats, fighting amongst themselves just to maintain sheer sustenance so that we put up with (or don't notice) the privileged class taking everything for themselves. Prosperity would be handed down to future generations in this case too, but only for the rich few...and that concentration of wealth sort of requires that a great many people remain impoverished. I guess there's also some kind of religious component that's important for some of them--something like the divine right of kings, which somehow or other makes it imperative to maintain an oligarchy because it's God's will or some such...

Or, more succinctly: a functioning society where we take care of our own, vs. a situation where it's basically everyone for themselves for all but the privileged class (who benefit from the suffering of the masses).