The way the poll is worded is classic.
When are people going to wake up and understand that there are three ways of thinking.
A) People on both the Right and the Left who are just intellectual followers of what their perceived group tells them.
B) People who come up with all kinds of hair brained, radical beliefs about everything.
C) Level headed people who do not buy into conspiracy theories or wild, pie in the sky ideas. They understand that things for the most part are the way they are for a reason and that in reality things are mostly as they seem.
For the most part, the Leftists on this board (and in general) are firmly in groups A and B. They formulate all their opinions based on the belief that everything in society is the product of evil white men and that everything has a nefarious basis and other hogwash.
The rest of us are in group C although many would like to believe we are in group A. It is because the the thinking of the Left is so radical that they perceive anyone who doesn't think like them as far Right. I can't think of a single person that would identify with the Religious Right on this board.
Drop the Left and Right nonsense and instead think in terms of wise vs foolish. A wise man understands that things are for the most part as they seem, that there are no conspiracies, that there is no "power elite" that keeps you down, that the bad guys and good guys are easy to identify without all this underlying oppression crap and that our traditions and social etiquette is there for a reason whether you get it or not and you ought to respect this fact, etc.
Understand that all this anti-government, conspiracy theory, power structure, oppression, keep the other guy down, nefarious white man, side with the underdog crap is just that. It is crap that childish fools day dream about instead of pulling their head out of their ass and learning to separate reality from their foolish pie in the sky, fantasy world.
