A more charitable, and in my opinion more accurate observation is that equality for the underprivileged is in itself an important cause for the left, more so th

A more charitable, and in my opinion more accurate observation is that equality for the underprivileged is in itself an important cause for the left, more so than for the right, but like any movement there are plenty of people who coopt that for personal ends. I'm inclined to feel that the latter is more problematic on the Republican side because a pro-biz agenda is more directly beneficial to opportunists, but honestly I don't think it's very useful to spend much time discussing which side is more evil. At the very least I don't think Democrats are worse than Republicans when it comes to 'coopting'. To be clear, I don't identify as strictly left, although I'm probably more left than right if I had to pick. And I'm also not saying that 'the right' doesn't care about the underprivileged; far from it! Rather it seems to be less part of their core agenda (for reasons that I've become somewhat more sympathetic to over the past years).