Left-Center-Right

==Insights==
===Phil Underwood posted on Aug 5, 2007===
In my view, individual freedom lies in the center of the
social/economic representation. If you move to the left or the right
you move away from individual freedom. The extreme left gives us
Castro's Cuba, North Korea, the old Soviet Union, and to a lesser
extent China. The extreme right gives us Islamic fundamentalist
dictatorships. A political system based on egalitarianism or religion
doesn't allow for individual freedom. Playing with the terms left and
right doesn't change this fundamental premise.
In the popular view, Liberal has come to mean to the left of center,
while Conservative has come to mean to the right of center,
regardless of what the terms mean to each of us as individuals. This
leads to confusion and misunderstanding in many discussions.
All political systems today are right or left of center, or
individual freedom, by varying degrees. As a matter of principal I
would like to see the RLC and the RLCPA support individuals and
legislation that would move the US and PA toward the center in my
view above. I'll qualify that with the statement that trying to do it
in one big step will get us nowhere, but if we try and take steps in
the right direction, we may begin to get somewhere.
Posted by Phil Underwood, Muncy, PA
category:freedom