are you left,right or centre?

[Eilonnwy]

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.