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Source of Human Rights

Left: government
Right: the Creator

Human Nature

Left: basically good (Therefore, society is primarily responsible for evil.)
Right: not basically good (Therefore, the individual is primarily responsible for evil.)

Economic Goal

Left: equality
Right: prosperity

Primary Role of the State

Left: increase and protect equality
Right: increase and protect liberty

Government

Left: as large as possible
Right: as small as possible

Family Ideal

Left: any loving unit of people
Right: a married father and mother, and children

Guiding Trinity

Left: race, gender and class
Right: liberty, In God We Trust and e pluribus unum

Good and Evil

Left: relative to individual and/or society
Right: based on universal absolutes

Humanity's Primary Division(s)

Left: rich and poor; strong and weak
Right: good and evil

Ideal Primary Identity of an American

Left: world citizen
Right: American citizen

How to Make a Good Society

Left: abolish inequality
Right: develop each citizen's moral character

View of America

Left: profoundly morally flawed; inferior to any number of European countries
Right: greatest force for good among nations in world history

Gender

Left: a social construct
Right: male and female

Most Important Trait to Cultivate in a Child

Left: self-esteem
Right: self-control

Worth of the Human Fetus

Left: determined by the mother
Right: determined by society rooted in Judeo-Christian values

Primary Source of Crime

Left: poverty, racism and other societal flaws
Right: the criminal's malfunctioning conscience

Place of God and Religion in America

Left: secular government and secular society
Right: secular government and religious society

American Exceptionalism

Left: chauvinistic doctrine
Right: historical reality

Greatest Threat to the World

Left: environmental catastrophe (currently global warming)
Right: evil (currently radical Islamist violence)

International Ideal

Left: world governed by the United Nations, and no single country is dominant
Right: world in which America is the single strongest entity

Primary Reason for Lack of Peace in Middle East

Left: Israeli settlements in the West Bank
Right: Palestinian, Arab and Muslim denial of Jewish state's right to exist

Purpose of Art

Left: challenge status quo and bourgeois sensibilities
Right: produce works of beauty and profundity to elevate the individual and society

Guns

Left: ideally universally abolished, except for use by police, the armed forces and registered sportsmen
Right: ideally widely owned by responsible individuals for self-protection and the protection of others

Race

Left: intrinsically significant
Right: intrinsically insignificant

Racial, Ethnic and Gender Diversity at Universities
Left: most important
Right: far less important than ideological diversity

Black America's Primary Problem

Left: racism
Right: lack of fathers

Greatest Playwright

Left: entirely subjective; there is no greatest playwright
Right: Shakespeare

War

Left: not the answer
Right: sometimes the only answer

Hate

Left: wrong, except when directed at the political
Right: wrong, except when directed at evil

Cultures

Left: all equal
Right: some are better than others

America's Founding Fathers

Left: rich white male slave owners
Right: great men who founded the greatest society

Purpose of Judges

Left: pursue social justice
Right: pursue justice

National Borders

Left: a relic of the past
Right: indispensable for national survival

View of Illegal Immigrants

Left: welcomed guests
Right: illegal immigrants

Nature

Left: intrinsically valuable
Right: made for man

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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Source of Human Rights

Left: government
Right: the Creator

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ORIGINAL: blnymph

Most can be reduced to a single line which is ... not worth commenting from the outside:
"American exceptionalism"

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: blnymph

Most can be reduced to a single line which is ... not worth commenting from the outside:
"American exceptionalism"

Without American exceptionalism wouldn't you still be Nazis, or perhaps Stalinists

Imagine what the world would look like had leftist Nazis and Stalinist etc always gotten their way

The first alt leftists

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

If all left-wingers wanted a big government then why does the Green Party emphasize decentralization? What about the anarcho-communists? What about the classless, stateless society???

How about instead of trusting biased right-wing sources for your perspectives you go to the party websites, read their policies, and stop being so lazy? Or better yet, stop trying to label and generalize everything and think of people as individuals who are actually capable of forming their own coherent belief systems and don't exist merely to agree with whatever one of the two mainstream parties wants?

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ORIGINAL: respectmen

The left: Take care of women before men. Take care of anyone who isn't white before whites. Take care of muslims before any other religion.

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX

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ORIGINAL: heavyblinker

If all left-wingers wanted a big government then why does the Green Party emphasize decentralization? What about the anarcho-communists? What about the classless, stateless society???

How about instead of trusting biased right-wing sources for your perspectives you go to the party websites, read their policies, and stop being so lazy? Or better yet, stop trying to label and generalize everything and think of people as individuals who are actually capable of forming their own coherent belief systems and don't exist merely to agree with whatever one of the two mainstream parties wants?

Give me one example of Democrats working to shrink the size of the government

I have always said that the Greens need to splinter off and form another party - right along with the Feminazis, the socialists, the communists, the LGBTs, the black panther racists, and the Mexican racists (La Raza) etc etc etc.

Rather than gather under the "Massive Government / Hate White Men" party umbrella

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It would be great if the tax money that is spent on foreign aid was supplied to the systems in western societies such as health and homelessness. The people in the said society should come first over anyone another country away. The left don't seem to understand that.

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ORIGINAL: kdsub

Will it seems that when it comes to spending of our tax money Clinton and Obama were the most frugal since Eisenhower....HERE I call that shrinking government...what say you?

Butch

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ORIGINAL: BoscoX
Give me one example of Democrats working to shrink the size of the government

I have always said that the Greens need to splinter off and form another party - right along with the Feminazis, the socialists, the communists, the LGBTs, the black panther racists, and the Mexican racists (La Raza) etc etc etc.

Rather than gather under the "Massive Government / Hate White Men" party umbrella