I agree with the Democrats on economic and environmental issues, and with Republicans on the issues of crime, race, and immigration. Most Democrats thought the way I do from 1932 to 1963. Beginning in 1964 the Democrat Party began to move in ways I dislike.I hate to say it, because you’re a liberal and won’t like it, but it’s because liberals* divide people into “oppressors” and “oppressed.” They hold in contempt successful, hard-working, motivated people by seeing them as oppressors, and the lowlife failures as oppressed.
* You will note that the worst of this is coming from liberal schools.
I am pessimistic about human nature and human potential, but I vote Democrat - without enthusiasm - because I believe that the government has an important role to play in society.
On human nature I agree with E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology, the New Synthesis. On human potential I agree with Charles Murray's and Richard Herrnstein's The Bell Curve.
I think Edmund Burke and Karl Marx each had several valid insights, and were mistaken about other matters.
Keep that in mind and you will never be surprised by a stand I take on a political issue.
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