Here's the scope of it. Because people are happy to divide each other up on political theory that is rarely lived up to the dream. It has to be said. Left, Right, and center are all missing the target. But it can be done better.

If you are left leaning you're politics are about kindness, a bleeding heart towards causes. But you have no care for ruining what's working, for the sake of holding up a cause. And your causes can lead you by the nose without doing anything. Leading you by lies and misdirection. For you, what you need is a dosage of fear of making the world worse, of ruining what is working, or harming what is good. And if you have a faith in God, then what is needed is to have the fear of turning away from Him, by turning away from His standards.

If you are right leaning politics is about preserving what works instead of ideologies of a utopia. While also supporting individual power over government force. Smaller government, less restrictions, more individual power. You know the fear of losing what your country has. The fault is that greed and corruption is more open and problems are left alone. For you what is needed is a strong heart to hold onto personal generosity and kindness to counter the lack of policies to take that responsibility away from you. If you already do this, well done and thank you.

If you are center politically, then you try to say from extremes. However it's filled with a philosophy of compromise so that no real action is taken, and no real steps to fix an issue are supported. To have moderate center leaning politics and still be useful when there is a need to stand up against corruption, stand ready in case of war, or to stand with justice when there is injustice, what you need is to know when to not compromise. Otherwise what you're left with is spinning your wheels while adopting to a lesser degree both faults of right leaning and left leaning politics.

Kindness? The Left is not very kind to those people who disagree with them; and their “bleeding heart cause” are merely look-at-me virtue signalling.

Adhering to the centre is standing for nothing.

Conservatism is the only hope.

The main difference between the Left and Right is that the Left want the government to help the people who are in trouble. The Right want the government to not help – some oppose intervention because they don't think it should be the government's role, but more commonly they want to make an example of those people in the vain hope that it will deter others from making the same mistakes.

Those on the Centre tend to be misunderstood. Most are there not because they seek the centre ground, but because they seek the best outcome and recognise the problems with the extreme positions.

Economist and social commentator, Peter Smith, has something to say about the 'kindness’ of the Left:

“ … they never seem to run out of compassion for ‘the other’”’ but “...” Ask them to help Aussies – disadvantaged, bad teeth, homeless, old and shivering in the cold – or, alternatively, Syrian asylum seekers and they’ll plump for the latter every time”.

And they feel morally superior as they dispense the best of care that taxpayers can provide to these undeserving foreigners.

A standout example of this attitude is the newly elected independent member for Wentworth, in parliament for five minutes, yapping about nothing but illegals on Nauru instead of concentrating on the Australians who elected her and who will be paying her huge salary, superannuation, and other perks.

Aidan,

Lucky for you that the post on the Marxist threat was pushed out so that you didn't have to come up with an answer to my questions on your choice BS.

ttbn,
Rightwing commentators like Peter Smith are fond of false dichotomies. But in reality there's no good reason not to help both. Also:

• It's the Right, not the Left, who oppose helping disadvantaged Aussies.
• Refugees are fleeing for a reason - they should not be assumed to be undeserving.
• Despite the Right labelling them as "illegals", people have a legal right to seek asylum.
• Keeping people locked up on Nauru is not only unacceptably cruel, but also very expensive.
• Although people resettling here results in an initial cost to taxpayers, they subsequently become taxpayers so in the long run it should be profitable.

As for your post on the Marxist thread, I have contacted politicians on a number of issues, but I'm pretty sure I haven't managed to sway any election results yet. However, grassroots political organisations such as GetUp have. Do you regard the as elites as well?

Aidan,
I can't really comment about the goings-on on your Planet but here on Earth things are not as you described in your last post. I'll play "Il Silenzio" while you digest my reply.