Most people are hypocrites, Akenaton...on occasion. It is when the occasions become too frequent and automatic that it really becomes a problem. I'd say from what I've seen of life in general that only fully fledged spiritual masters (and a few other truly exceptional people) are never hypocritical, and they comprise maybe 1/1000 of one percent of the human race...at best. :-)

Are you saying that Leftists are hypocritical more often than rightists? I doubt it, I think that they are just hypocritical about different things, that's all. Their style is different.

Most people are also largely unaware of their own hypocrisy most of the time...so are they hypocrites, really, in the conscious sense, or are they just people living what could best be called unexamined lives?

I don't know if Al Capone was hypocritical, but he certainly was dangerous. :-) So was Joe Stalin. I'd classify Capone as an agressive capitalist crook and Stalin as an aggressive socialist dictator. So?

What is a "leftist" anyway? Give us your definition...

- LH