Originally posted by magkelly You know I thought I was in the middle of the liberal side of the spectrum compared to most of you. But now I am beginning to realize that I am far more conservative than many people around here and clearly some people around here don't like me much for that.
I wonder If this thinking in terms of a political continuum , by all of us, isn't the cause of a lot of misunderstanding. I think for most real people we don't fit neatly on some point along a spectrum but are all over the place depending on the issue.
I know for myself, for instance, when it comes to economic and environmental issues I'm very much a man of the left but when it comes to public education and immigration I think the position of those on the right often have a lot of merit.
This simple-minded pigeon holing of people politically can be very damaging, and often does violence to reality, if you don't have a very thick skin.