Quote Originally Posted by Rollo View Post
How do you define "the left"?
I define the left as those who believe somewhat more in the "group" as opposed to the individual. I'll be the first to say that there are places where the "group" makes sense because it can leverage things better (think fire and police departments, mutual funds, insurance for a couple examples), people leaning more to the left want to extend that to many more areas and/or also want to force people to participate.

Here there is also the elitist attitude of many in the far left who project the image that they know what is good for me and, since I don't agree, I must be uneducated or stupid, or both, and therefor not qualified to make my own decisions about how I choose to live. Big Brother is alive and well in the left.