Reply #5: Alaska may be different

[AKDavy]

But I know a lot of folks here that I would call politically to the right who are very concerned about the poor. One that one moral axis, I'd call them more liberal than many who claim the title "liberal."

Institutionally, both the left and the right have sold out to power. I know college professors who talk lefty, but they have six figure salaries and big houses and nice cars and their actions reflect no concern about the Have-Nots.

In theory, it is the left who looks after the poor. But this nation isn't there anymore. Chris Hedges has decribed this very well in "Death of the Liberal Class," as did Noam Chomsky in many of his works. Perhaps this is why I now define "true left" as those liberals still willing to embrace Chomsky.

I'd define concern for the poor as a liberal value, regardless of the label claimed by the person holding that value.

It's top vs bottom. The other categories are superimposed willy-nilly, often intentionally to deceive.