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You could well be right… I come here from a pretty left perspective but what actually killed it for me was seeing up close how, in particular, the UK Labour Party has utter contempt for its members, so I’ve fallen back into a more comfortable anarchistic position.

I don’t have the answers, I can just add a touch more bass if you need it but I find the tax the rich argument frustrating as the people on government are only ever acting on their own self interest and we’ve gone to an ever increasing public/private system that ultimately means governments print money for the benefit of private shareholders. The average worker sees no upside with this arrangement and the national debt grows larger still.

Not sure K shaped economies ever worked out too well in the past. Left or right, most folks feel their money getting less valuable and if you’re already in a lower bracket, that hits especially hard. I’d push back on them not having any money, less sure but most folks trade their time for money in some way and recognise they’re getting an ever worse deal.

Obviously this isn’t news to anyone here but I feel I need to get it off my chest.

Henry 1mo ago

I used to assume I was more 'on the left' because I didnt like the neo-cons like Bush and their illegal wars and 'the left' at the time were anti war.

At one point I also used to think it was possible for the government to enforce the law on crony capitalists companies with regulation. Once I realised the revolving door between the corperate world and the government existed and was actually extremely obvious (Why else would you want to pay politicians for 'book talks' or hire Nick Clegg) , I stopped believing they were doing anything but regulatory capture to make laws that they could deal with but hindered smaller competition that couldnt deal with the regulation.

Now I dont consider myself left or right I just want less government. Some 'left' people think that is 'right wing' but to me that is some kind of weird fantasy because in the past we didnt have an endless centralised bureaucracy trying to control everything like we clearly do now. I think once the populace are taxed way less interviduals once they have their time and money back will actually have time and resources to help solve many of the problems in society better than a centralised one could ever do.

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