No matter how deafening the background noise is about the 2016 presidential campaign, the undercurrent that must be heard loud and clear through all the distractive clamor are the emotionally charged issues of morality. There is a deeper and more powerful political motive force behind all the political clap trap that is currently being presented on the social surface by the politicians, the pundits and the media.
Whether they know it or not, the presumptive candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, are already lined up according to whether they believe in the old absolute morality of the past authoritarian world or in the new politically correct, relative morality of the current anti-authoritarian era.
These two moralities are entirely different ways of viewing and dealing with the world. They generate the ideological divide that unconsciously pits the political left and right against each other. Casting America into two irreconcilable, opposing groups, this social force from the human depths is the ultimate governor of people’s ideas and behavior. It must be consciously recognized, understood and resolved before social conditions can improve.
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Neither Left Nor Right
The Emotional Plague
Charles Konia, M.D. 
Dr. Konia thank you for coninuning to share your thoughts, wisdom and insights on the current socio-political scene.
I sometimes take it for granted because of Reich’s shadow and all the great work done at the ACO but your labeling and description from a functional point of view of authoritarian society, anti-authoritarian society and the period of transformation in the 20th C has to be one of, if not the greatest, modern practical sociological discoveries.
I hope that one day soon these truths can be applied and used in the life positive way in which they are intended
Greatly appreciated
Thank you!