Poet, Yes, definitely a leftist, but not a starry eyed one.
The left fails when it espouses foolish or stupid actions. Just like the right or the center.
So you get lefties who feel the state should own everything and others just left of center.
For example, the USA needs a national health plan, like UK and Canada, but it needs to place limits on it with some degree of user fees to minimize abuse.
In the UK and Canada you have people whose only activity in life is to visit doctors, 1-2 a day, all free, for imagined ills or to get painkillers for sale. Chiropractors are a major abuse here in Canada. Fake visits and treatments are common place. As much as 25% of the resources of the system are consumed by these fakers.
I am willing to let people use what they truly need, but not to let them consume resources that others may need.
Apparently in the USA 25-30% of the medical resource is wasted in Beurocracy, and another 10% in liability insurance. What a waste....
As for liberal, I have a different opinion on almost all aspects of society. Most are left wing, many are centrist, and a few are righties.
I do not feel that I can pledge my loyalty to one position and stick to it while it does bad as well as good. That is what Hitler did. National socialism, sounds nice and left..= NAZI, so you need to watch who you sleep with.
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