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Originally Posted by maskedmelon
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nobody (aside from Nibs' suggestion that government should be large enough to move things left) has really spoken to the two basic premises that I poorly established in my OP:
1. Limited government is necessary on the right
2. Robust government is necessary in the left.
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Read about r/K selection theory and how it models behavior in politics. That'll keep ya busy with the left/right topic for a while.
Try looking at it in terms of resource scarcity and competition. When resources are plentiful, a population (and not just humans) will grow and expand as far as possible by exploiting those resources to proliferate reproduction. As the left gains control of government (e.g. via democracy), they tend toward redistributing abundant resources to the unproductive and uncompetitive since that is the most successful strategy to expand that unproductive population. You can see this boon increase reproduction rates of several types of welfare recipients. A large government is necessary in order to extract the resources from the productive part of the population that owns the resources.
On the other hand, when resources are limited, there is naturally competition, and success in that competitive environment requires productivity, which drives survival and selection towards structures like family units.
Resources are finite, and only when made unavailable or exhausted, do you you see drastic shifts to the right e.g. government/economy collapse in severe cases. When resources are abundant, you see shifts to the left, and in that case the larger government facilitates redistribution.