Status Quo

The status quo: props up a system where fewer than ten individuals control more wealth than half of the world's people; where artificial scarcity starves thousands of people daily despite humanity being able to feed everyone and then some; where people are expected to needlessly toil for the enrichment of a select few, even though automation could weed out a large portion of menial labor; where empires are built on the backs of the poorest; where corporations and the state make up a ruling caste that structures policy in favor of capital accumulation and against the grand majority of the population

The status quo: reproduces all of this oppression and injustice through a highly sophisticated media apparatus that disregards or suppresses worldviews that challenge it; through an education system that rewards compliance within those parameters; through an ideological culture that celebrates markets, inequality, and "individualism" uncritically. creates misleading ideologies to justify itself materially

Right-wingers: regurgitate all of this ideology they've been fed since childhood, acting as a bulwark against any substantive movements for liberation beyond the status quo, thus keeping power dynamics completely unchanged

Right-wingers: We're freedom fighters We stand up for the underdog against government corruption  Just get a job sweaty  If you don't like that eight people control more wealth than half the world maybe you should start a business of your own  Don't tread on me  Submit to cops arbitrarily and you won't get shot  I'm simultaneously a traditionalist and a rebel  Communism means work or starve  Now do as the bosses demand and work this unfulfilling/dangerous/unnecessary job  Or lose your job and thus starve  I'm a subversive intellectual sweaty