How do you, personally, define 'left-wing' vs 'right-wing'?

[Roy]

Right-wing: supporting the authorities and the elite - monarchy, aristocracy, church.
Left wing: supporting the masses.

[Cow Poke]

Right-wing: supporting the authorities and the elite - monarchy, aristocracy, church.
Left wing: supporting the masses.

Left wing: hoodwinking the masses into allowing them to have the power and take their money.

[Mountain Man]

Left wing: supporting controlling the masses.

[oxmixmudd]

Right-wing: supporting the authorities and the elite - monarchy, aristocracy, church.
Left wing: supporting the masses.

That's interesting Roy. What I often find in my own struggles with this very issue it that while I agree very much with the idea of supporting the masses, and I am especially opposed to supporting authority arbitrarily and at the expense of the masses (the poor or 'less rich'), I often find myself very much in disagreement with those that identify as left or liberal as to how that is best done. I tend to think a lot of left leaning policies actually end up abusing the poor, the masses.

Jim

[Cow Poke]

That's interesting Roy. What I often find in my own struggles with this very issue it that while I agree very much with the idea of supporting the masses, and I am especially opposed to supporting authority arbitrarily and at the expense of the masses (the poor or 'less rich'), I often find myself very much in disagreement with those that identify as left or liberal as to how that is best done. I tend to think a lot of left leaning policies actually end up abusing the poor, the masses.

Jim

I think, for the most part, the policies of the left are well intentioned, but poorly thought out and badly implemented.

[Roy]

Left wing: hoodwinking the masses into allowing them to have the power and take their money.

No, that's right wing.

[Cow Poke]

No, that's right wing.

It's both wings, Roy. Both are more concerned with gaining (or staying in) power than they are the actual concern of the masses.

[Roy]

I think, for the most part, the policies of the left are well intentioned, but poorly thought out and badly implemented.

True. The policies of the right wing, on the other hand, tend to be evilly intentioned and well implemented.

[Cow Poke]

True. The policies of the right wing, on the other hand, tend to be evilly intentioned and well implemented.

Thanks, I needed a laugh this morning.

[Roy]

It's both wings, Roy. Both are more concerned with gaining (or staying in) power than they are the actual concern of the masses.

Sometimes. But in the US you don't really have any left-wingers, only right-wingers and very-right-wingers, so you can't really tell.

[Cow Poke]

Sometimes. But in the US you don't really have any left-wingers, only right-wingers and very-right-wingers, so you can't really tell.

You're on a roll! Perhaps you can get booked for open mike night at Comedy Central!

[Cow Poke]

Here's an interesting graphic that deals with the subject, albeit from a rather biased perspective, I think....

[firstfloor]

You're on a roll! Perhaps you can get booked for open mike night at Comedy Central!

Roy is right; you are living the Republican Revolution.

[Bill the Cat]

Sometimes. But in the US you don't really have any left-wingers, only right-wingers and very-right-wingers, so you can't really tell.

You've never been to an American university in the past 5 years then, have you?

[Cow Poke]

Roy is right; you are living the Republican Revolution.

So good to hear from you, ff. Right on cue after the mention of Comedy Central.