How did you become left-wing?

Capitalism needs to come back and no the US ruined its own, so it is not a good example.

I would put myself in the Conservative economy and liberal society branch, but i dont like grouping things, since it just becomes a gruesome apefest of stupidity.
 
In all fairness I became right wing when I started seeing a girl who lived on a council estate. I ended up living with her for a short while, around a year, and met a lot of people on the estate.

I was absolutely appalled by these people, I can only describe them as the scum of the earth.

*EDIT: Thats not to say I think that all people on council estates are scum, but the majority of the ones I met made my pay cheque cringe
 
shoes said:
In all fairness I became right wing when I started seeing a girl who lived on a council estate. I ended up living with her for a short while, around a year, and met a lot of people on the estate.

I was absolutely appalled by these people, I can only describe them as the scum of the earth.

*EDIT: Thats not to say I think that all people on council estates are scum, but the majority of the ones I met made my pay cheque cringe
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What has that got to do with anything?
 
Neil79 said:
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Oh hey neil...:D

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Anyway, there's already too much ultra right things going on in Europe, wouldn't this just boost that? |:
 
Tefal said:
Problem being of course left wing economics require authoritarian force.

The more you want to take from people the stronger you must be to stop them refusing.
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By being left on social issues, I meant stuff like gay marriage, abortion, nothing to do with economy.

As for reallocation of wealth the proles can screw themselves. I tried to help them, once upon a time but the majority hate policies that help them. Thus I think immigration is good, make them compete for work, no force full reallocation of wealth, lower taxes etc
 
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Tefal said:
that's not left then.

that's libertarian nothing to do with left or right wing.
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By saying left I meant what most people would consider left. When people say right, they think of conservative views as opposed to economic policy.

libertarian has everything to do with economics as well. Classical Liberalism, and neoliberilism are heavily followed for libertarian like thinkers.

libertarians want the markets to be de-regulated, open borders as well as regulations removed from social side of things etc

Pure libertarianism I don't agree with though, its almost anarchy if followed to extremes.


The majority often have hypocritical views, people think the BNP are right wing, but on economic policy they are left wing because they are very protective. They are just authoritarian, trying to force people live in the 'correct' manner, no deviation from social norms. I'm the exact opposite of that. I'm not very protective, and i'm not very authoritarian. People should be able to do what they want, and economically they should be able to what they want as well, if they want import certain goods, or outsource work they should be able to.

People should be able to live as randian heroes
 
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