Posted on 03/25/2005 1:39:16 AM PST by ajolympian2004
Some people believe that all social problems have solutions; other people believe that some problems cannot be solved, only mitigated, and that public policy is a matter of trade-offs. People in the leftist camp tend to fall into the first category, those on the right, in the latter.
In the Political Junkie Handbook, Michael Crane offers a provocative listing of "100+ Differences Between the Left and Right." Here's a sampling with some embellishments and additions:
Left: Human rights are more important than property rights. Right: Property rights are the foundation of all rights.
Left: Karl Marx. Right: Adam Smith.
Left: Humanity. Right: Individuality.
Left: Quotas. Right: Merit.
Left: A fair and living wage. Right: Wages must be based on productivity.
Left: Protectionism. Right: Free trade.
Left: Wage and price controls. Right: Supply and demand.
Left: Regulate. Right: Deregulate.
Left: Coercion. Right: Volunteerism.
Left: Idealism. Right: Common sense.
Left: Counterculture. Right: Judeo-Christian tradition.
Left: Feminize men/masculinize women. Right: Men and women are equals on opposite poles.
Left: Boys and girls are the same, except girls are better. Right: Respect the differences between the sexes.
Left: Herstory. Right: History.
Left: Nurture. Right: Nature.
Left: Mass transit. Right: Automobiles.
Left: Marijuana. Right: Cigars.
Left: Welfare. Right: Charity.
Left: Differently abled. Right: Handicapped.
Left: Visualize peace. Right: Peace through strength.
Left: Feelings. Right: Thoughts.
Left: Centralization and government planning. Right: Decentralization and free enterprise.
Left: Cooperation. Right: Competition.
Left: Alec Baldwin. Right: Charlton Heston.
Left: Alger Hiss. Right: Whittaker Chambers.
Left: John Maynard Keynes. Right: Frederich Hayek.
Left: John Kenneth Galbraith. Right: Milton Friedman.
Left: Jean Jacques Rousseau. Right: Edmund Burke.
Left: Gore Vidal. Right: William F. Buckley Jr.
Left: Michael Moore. Right: George W. Bush.
Left: 2+2 = whatever. Right: 2+2 = 4.
Left: Public schools as laboratories for social engineering. Right: Basic and rigorous academics.
Left: Government school monopoly. Right: Choice and competition.
Left: Veggie soyburgers. Right: McDonald's.
Left: Granola. Right: Wheaties.
Left: Communes. Right: Gated communities.
Left: Mom & Pop's Organic Food Emporium. Right: Wal-Mart.
Left: Boulder. Right: Mayberry, RFD.
Left: Sandals. Right: Wingtips.
Left: Ward Churchill. Right: Bill Bennett.
Left: Hunter S. Thompson. Right: Thomas Wolfe.
Left: Demonstrators. Right: Cops.
Left: Pacifists. Right: Marines.
Left: Takers. Right: Doers.
Left: Tax receivers. Right: Taxpayers.
Left: There is too much inequality of wealth. Right: Free people not equal; equal people are not free.
Left: Redistribute wealth. Right: Create wealth.
Left: Equality of outcome. Right: Equality of opportunity.
Left: Security seeking. Right: Risk taking.
Left: Labor unions. Right: Right to work.
Left: A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Right: Mankind is the pinnacle of creation.
Left: Environmental purity. Right: Environmental/commercial trade-offs.
Left: Windmills. Right: Nuclear power plants.
Left: Bicycles. Right: SUVs.
Left: Volvo. Right: Lexus.
Left: Self-esteem is an entitlement. Right: Self-esteem is earned.
Left: Al Franken. Right: Rush Limbaugh.
Left: Capital punishment is uncivilized. Right: Murder is uncivilized.
Left: World government. Right: U.S. constitution.
Left: Foreign aid. Right: Foreign investment.
As Ayn Rand once observed, if your differences appear to be irreconcilable, the first thing you should do is check your premises.
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Left: Open Space. Right: Golf Courses
Say what? Property rights ain't worth squat without the right to life.
Right:God
Right:God
Ditto on that. Hate is the foundation of quicksand on which the left bases everything else in their world of darkness.
left: we support Hitler on euthanasia
right: we oppose both
"Say what? Property rights ain't worth squat without the right to life."
And there is no true right to life without property rights!
How exactly is the right to life predicated on property rights? The other way around is easy - dead men haven't much use for property.
Someone send this list to our elected majority in DC and ask them to please follow the "right" descriptions.
This list is an excellent litmus test next time you are considering a candidate in a primary near you. I view this list as RINO prevention if used at the right moment during an election cycle.
Your life is YOUR property or does it belong to the state?
Life is not property, period. In the only sense that life might be construed to be property, it is the property of the Creator.
"This list is an excellent litmus test next time you are considering a candidate in a primary near you. I view this list as RINO prevention if used at the right moment during an election cycle."
Excellent idea!
I wouldn't limit it's use to only a primary though...........
Notice must be served that no candidate gets a pass.........
Left: A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. Right: Mankind is the pinnacle of creation.
These two statements (on the left side) are incompatible. I would say that the left doesn't care about human rights, except under very narrowly defined circumstances. For instance, a vicious killer has all kinds of rights and elicits all kinds of sympathy from the left, but his innocent victims have neither rights nor sympathy.
Amd without property rights, man can't earn the wherewithal to STAY alive. The two are co-equal and both necessary.
That's a solid explanation, thanks.
ping
Your life is your property, it belongs to you.
Not according to the DEA.
So? That doesn't make them any more right than any other oppressor/thief/murderer.
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