Do you really think the lefties an oppressed minority, pfr? Seems to me that, on this forum at least, they are the oppressive majority and we of the somewhat further right [I wouldn't call myself a 'rightie' exactly ~~ more a sort of floating MOR-er when it comes to politics] the oppressed minority, constantly under self-righteous and priggish attack for having the effrontery to disagree with their arrogant pronouncements. See, e.g., Richard's explicit and barefaced assertion that I 'deserve' to be abused because I won't accept his grotesque premises; which makes me an 'oppressor of the poor' an 'underminer of the welfare state, 'a robber of the poor to give to the rich' [as if ~~ if I could contrive to rob anyone, I should keep it for myself, thanks very much!]. So go on being a lefty - which is not a name, merely an objective category-name which you have acknowledged - and I hope it keeps fine for you.

~M~