Hicks dismisses the political labels of Left and Right as too hackneyed to mean much. I disagree.
A Leftist is a socialist that loves big government intrusion into our private lives and affairs, and that leads directly to soft tyranny being our new public policy.
A Rightist (American mainstream conservative, not a supremacist, a ultra-nationalist, a Nazi) in America is for small government, self-reliance, balanced budgets, judicial originalism, a strong national defense, the right to bear arms and allowing each citizen to do her thing and exercise her natural rights under this constititutional republic.
There are other dualistic dimensions that Hicks would add--including favoring groupism (Leftism) versus individualism (conservatives and Rightists), that make sense and enrich the labels Leftist or Rightist, but the label must remain central to our political discourse.
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