This board is an interesting study in ‘right’ vs. ‘left’. It seems to me that a person rather quickly falls into one camp or the other, to some degree.
For instance, take abortion for example:
As a ‘left winger’, you are ‘pro-choice’, it seems that you will also be anti-death penalty (ironic), pro-social program, anti-corporate, anti-gun, etc.
If you are a Right winger, you are pro-life, you will most likely have some degree of acceptance of the death penalty (once again, ironic), will be pro-corporate, anti-social program, pro-gun, etc.
Of course, these are gross generalizations, and by no means are all people perfect little right or left wingers. I think of it more as a sliding scale then an absolute.
Which brings me to…How do we get to where we are, politically?
I mean, we look at what is going on Isreal, for example. Half of us think Isreal should kick some ass, the other half think Isreal needs its ass kicked. Same event, but how do we see it so differently? Same goes for abortion, social programs, homosexual rights, etc.
We all have access to the pretty much the same information, but how we interpret it seems to fall, generally, into one of two camps on such an incredibly broad array of issues. (‘I don’t care’ is also an option, I guess, but that isn’t much of a position!)