[Barry the Sprout]

Originally posted by Skunk: Well, there is the Left and there is the Left. There is the informed and the uninformed coupled with the rational and irrational. There are left wingers who believe that the rich should always look after the poor regardless of the circumstances, and there are 'left wingers' who believe that the rich should only look after those who are incapable of looking after themselves and assist the rest to make something of their lives.

On your first point, whilst the lunacy of some of the left never fails to suprise me I think that for the most part the idea of the totally irrational nay-saying leftist is a colourful and amusing myth. Overall the left wing tends to be quite well educated and know what its talking about.

Also I'd just like to stress in relation to your second point that there are other positions than the ones you've mentioned above that left-wingers tend to take. My position personally is that the poor shouldn't rely on the rich to do anything for them. Its not about charity, its about revolution.