are you left,right or centre?

[bozo]

The comparison that I was making was that you seem to say if you hold any capitalist ideals you're a capitalist and not possibly a socialist in any way. Just like you can be a capitalist with socialist ideals, you can be a black person with very white/caucasian features. It's not clearly one or the other, is all I was getting at.

For example. I support universal health care. That is an ideal based on the idea of coorporation with our government and medical system so that everyone gets medical services for cheap. So in essence allowing people to get good health insurance and have the government use taxes to pay for most of it. However, let's look at auto insurance. I live in Massachusetts and until recently auto insurance companies weren't allowed to compete, it was regulated by the state in an effort to protect people from paying too much, but it didn't work. Good drivers in Massachusetts were paying almost just as much as bad drivers and it was a lot more in comparison to other states where the companies could compete. A ballot initiative was passed that allowed cauto insurance companies to compete and nopw good drivers can take advantage of the better prices.

Sorry E but your logic loses me. If you have " socialist ideals " then you are socialist. What you are saying may be that we have to live with capitalism ( although we don't really want it? ). That I understand.

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Merging parts of two political systems has been the way of things for years. For instance, I think capitalism is a good economic system (at least in comparison to others) but I'm also an egalitarian and believe that people ought to be treated the same regardless of their wealth.

Sorry A but I don't think capitalism is good at economics. It certainly isn't fair....loook to the third world for proof of what global capitalism delivers.
And, of course, wealth does ensure the haves and have-
nots of our society, with huge implications.