@okie,
But everything you write is filtered through an extreme conservatism. Were my father to meet you, he might say that both your arms on the right side of your body, which is one of his descriptions of righties.
You also reject any form of authority. You hold yourself as a standard but you are close to alone even here on a forum that does not ask for a political stance as a condition of membership. In other words, you make yourself the measure of all things.
And, politics and economics are two different disciplines. The basic types of each can be and have been combined in different ways. here, however, I will thank you for once saying that it is your opinion and not the way of the world as you often do.
I think that as a person who rejects Newsweek as a left biased publication, you have no right to be taken seriously when you say that the left has no concept of human nature. The right sourly expresses a rather dim view of human nature and seems to always say that human progress in spiritual and intellectual terms is impossible. The left constantly works toward human improvement. You are probably unaware of the fact that the early labor union movement also produced group studies and workshops. One example is the Saturday Evening Girls who met in Boston and made pottery among other things. These working class young women, many of whom were immigrants, had a higher rate of college attendance than women from any other social strata.
Furthermore, the left is generally better educated than the right. That can be documented.
People often overcome their miserable childhoods but such childhoods just as frequently destroy individuals. One seldom knows what the toss of the coin produces. Just remember that you do not view things from a complete spectrum.
