I observe that US politics is basically made up of right wingers versus 'liberals", but that neither team avoids a fundamentally moral agenda in the majority. Morality is a way that actual political (i.e. definitively not "moral") forces manipulate the masses.
In actual fact, what is at stake with political manipulation is rarely morality, but power and wealth. Only later, (after such power has been well established), will "moral" justifications for the power also be fully consolidated (in a process akin to conditioning of the masses). So, justifying one's political goals in terms of morality would be at best a secondary mode of thinking that fails to observe the material advantages or disadvantages at stake. At worst, it is self-deception.
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