But duke,
you are a right winger. The neutral centre is where I am!!
Or maybe it depends upon your perspective. ;-)
at any rate, no dig intended. it was my sense of where you will head once you stop thinking that the poor are addicted to the puny welfare checks they receive; and thus that most poor folks are poor because they don't try; and that welfare and/or distribution are forms of charity rather than enlightened self-interest and a part of the foundation of economic efficiency.
As I said, I think those kinds of things remain the heart of your system and only once you begin to doubt them will you begin to move your politics.
For myself, I learnt a good deal when I discovered that a certain measure of reciprocity and even altruism is actually economically efficient. Cooperation and trust are not the side-show. They are part of the main event. For me, discovering this was the death of the theory that self-interest and greed are the key to a successful society: and I was glad to see it go. What an ugly philosophy it seems once the robe of economic virtue is stripped from it.
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