Yeah, when I first wrote this, I used "conservative" instead of "right", because most of the right aren't conservatives: they're market fundamentalists or relig

Yeah, when I first wrote this, I used "conservative" instead of "right", because most of the right aren't conservatives: they're market fundamentalists or religious zealots - neither of which puts conservation of the good at the top of their list of values, regardless of their rhetoric. And yes, many on the left aren't interested in freedom at all: they're intensely authoritarian, which is no surprise when "equality" is the highest good in your value system. And plenty of people from all parts of the political spectrum are simply exploiting the intuitions of their "tribe" for status advantages.