Classic Liberal wrote on Mar 6
th, 2008 at 1:07am:
it is a sad sate of society when me a natural lefty could never even get close to voting left in any election because every "lefty" up for ballot seems to be either partially insane, completly insane, or a selfish bigot.
You make an interesting point pender. In political tests (to determine one's political stance) I always turn out to be centric and in many areas (socially and philosophically) I would be classed left wing given the nature of such tests.
But I don't identify at all with the left wing due to their often extreme intolerance and bigotry, hostility, propensity to indulge in violent remedy and ignorance of matters political. The selfishness of the lefty is not something which appeals to me.
So though I have empathy with left wing causes I drift right because the people on the right are the ones who care to do something, are in a position to do something and are willing to do something. In politics they are generally far more wholistic in their approach to society and treat everyone equally.
Leftards, in general, are divisive and polarised by their own lack of tolerance for difference, and the rights of others to form opinions. And while they mouth platitudes they often do nothing at all about their ideological rambling.