How do you become more right wing?

It's the biggest political fallacy of our time that 'left-wing' is conflated with 'caring.' The left supported fascism all throughout the 20's and 30's. In the US, the left established the KKK, and voted against the abolishment of slavery.

'Caring' precipitated the banking crisis by offering loans to under qualified borrowers. The left's altruism is synonymous with many, many negative qualities, including prioritising their own group ahead of all others, even in light of rational observation, even when it happens to run contrary to any conceptualisation of individual liberty.

Left-wing economic models are fundamentally, unequivocally dehumanising. They determine individuals aren't individuals, but categories - he or she is the product of the state, as are his or her economic outcomes. That's NOT moral, that's not even sensible.

Every left-wing policy - well, to be accurate, left-wing and progressive policy - is orientated around the group, greater centralisation of power and control. They argue nothing other than imagined identities - 'black', 'white', 'homosexual', 'male', 'female', and see you as nothing more than your imagined or perceived identity.

Every safe space, near every restriction on freedom of speech originating from a university, comes from a progressive - don't have a uterus? You aren't qualified to talk abortion. Opposed to immigration? You conflict with our feelings - you're banned.

They complain incessantly about the expenses scandal, or HoL reform, yet all they ever argue is for more power to be centralised in fewer hands. The EU is the best example of progressive tyrannical rule, with little democratic accountability.

What you're saying doesn't describe left-wingers. Things have moved on in the last century, most want more individual freedoms, more freedom to speak and organise as you wish (even if that's as part of a union), and oppose the EU.

Sell your soul to Satan and buy a suit from Savile Row

They are more left-wing than the UK political culture and the balance of the major newspapers. Essentially, they are organs of the economic technocracy. They are centrist.

How do you become more right wing?

Just wondering. I fit the character of someone who should be right wing but i just can't get with the idea, i care too much about others.

Any ideas?

Bill.

Instructions not clear, sold my soul, ended up as Satan's bitch.

The vast majority of 'intelligent' right-wing people I know are right-wing because they understand very little economics, and believe that economic theory necessarily points to right-wing politics.

Major newspapers? those 30p pieces of tat? lol.

People are always surprised when they find out I vote Conservative. I work for the NHS and am extremely passionate about it, and I have volunteered with numerous charities since I started uni (so since 2011). For me it's simply down to the fact that Labour cannot run the country financially, and they would be prepared to allow systems that are too open to abuse for me to vote for them. I don't feel that Labour would help those who are working and their immigration policies are ridiculous. For me at least it doesn't ever come down to not caring about people, I hate that there will be poor and disabled people suffering from the Tories' cuts, but I have never been convinced that Labour will be able to take government without running our economy into the ground so I can't vote for them

[e] Also if you need any reason to turn to the right from the left - Diane Abbott. How anyone can vote for a party that takes that woman seriously I cannot fathom.

Ah, the other central tenet of left-wing activism: moral superiority, an ability to understand everything everyone else thinks and feels and incessant condescension. On display for all to see.

We can add cultural elitism - while advocating economic collectivism - into the mix, too. Then there's the perpetual adversary complex, where solutions are irrelevant in the face of an opportunity to express self-righteous indignation.

Never mind the fact, as far as the modern left is concerned, the working class is now 'bigoted' by default. Champagne socialists, springs to mind.

Can't stand Labour and the current Marxist idiots in power but the financial crisis was caused by banks in the US and it was due to lack of regulation continued by Blair under the previous Major government (actually I think the economy would have been hit worse if it hadn't been for Blair's early bank policies which are completely consistent with Thatcherite principles). Brown nationalising the banks actually was a very competent decision, as was his plans for a public works programme.

Conservatives are supposed to be financially literate, and yet they support decreasing national expenditure by cutting jobs unnecessarily at a time when that expenditure should be used to push for full employment and build widespread infrastructure.

You have to stop thinking.

The thing about Labour though is they want everything to be free for everyone and those who work the hardest in the middle are the ones paying through the nose for it all, I can't support that. It's the families who are just above or meeting the threshold getting taxed a lot who then struggle who suffer the most with these kinds of policies yet Labour claim to be the party for the working people. I'm not saying the Tories are perfect and I definitely do not agree with a lot of things they're doing lately (I don't feel like I can vote for them at the next election at the moment if I'm honest, but I have always supported them and am a fully paid up member...for now) but I just cannot take Labour seriously especially not with Corbyn heading them up

I'm a champagne socialist, what of it? And yes, much of the working class in this country is bigoted, but I struggle to see that as their fault (similar to high crime rates) - society has consistently failed the working class over a number of years.

As for the first point, you make yourself look ridiculous by quoting only the parts of my post where I discuss the thick right-wingers and ignoring the part where I discuss the intelligent ones. There are obviously both thick and intelligent left-wingers too. Neither has an intrinsically greater intelligence, and neither has provable moral superiority.

if you're living under socialism, you let the government think for you (Y) if you live under capitalism whereby your own economic choices are directly proportional to your economic outcomes, then you *must* think, because nobody is going to think on your behalf.

No, the Labour Party, the party I used to vote for, has consistently failed the working classes over a number of decades. It happened around about the time they introduced the Third Way and deemed identity should become the new proxy for the class war. The same bull****, 'everyone's a winner and a loser' philosophy underpins the modern EU.

The outcome is the politically correct hell hole we find ourselves in today, where everything working class is derided and marginalised under a tidal wave of social engineering and globalism.