Right-wing attitudes:

"Big business, especially multinational big business, is all-powerful and democratically unaccountable but can be relied on to uphold the economy. If they exploit resources and pollute the planet, taxpayer money will help to clear up the mess.

Banks must be permitted to engineer ways of making vast profits without supervision, as the profit motive is crucial to the country, and bankers will do best if they are amply rewarded with large bonuses, irrespective of performance. If they fail, taxpayer money is always there to bale them out, and so it should.

The wealthy and powerful are the responsible people in society who know how to run things and should be allowed, unfettered, to do so.

The gap between rich and poor must be maintained at all costs, as otherwise the rich will lose incentive and the poor will have nothing to aspire to.

The poor are poor largely through their own doing, unwilling to work hard and showing lack of enterprise. We can't actually let them starve but they have no right to expect the lifestyle that the more entrepreneurial among us (as well as the deserving inheritors of wealth) enjoy. They've had their chances and it's not our fault they didn't take them.

It is morally justified to have two-tier systems of health provision and education. After all, if you have the money to jump the queue for medical care or grab privileges for your own children, well why shouldn't you? Isn't that 'freedom of choice?'

We will support all efforts to promote patriotism and will strive to keep out foreigners, especially those of strange ethnicity."

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If you vote for the Tories or for Trump, or even for Obama or Tony Blair, these are the principles you're voting for. If you understand that point, and vote that way anyway, then right-wing moron is too good an expression for you, though voting for Obama or Blair may let you off the hook if you earnestly believe that you're going for the least of the evils on offer and are trying to keep out the worst of the worst. My grandad, who worked all his life in Salford docks, voted Tory because the man in the pulpit told him to. He didn't understand what he was voting for. I know that because I knew him pretty well (and loved him to bits). During elections, most of these things are hidden from the electorate and it's a damn certainty that most people who vote Tory don't get them. Those people are uninformed but they are not morons.

I've tried to be measured though I'm sure I'm riling some people. No doubt we'll get a definition of "the other side" from someone or other. It's worth remembering though that most people who vote for left-wing parties are voting according to principle, misguided or not, even if that just means that they recognise the above list of points and are voting to oppose them.