Ever gone so far "right" that you find yourself agreeing w/what you once considered "left? and/or vice-versa?

Far left on a lot of issues; I'm a democratic socialist and a "limits to growth" environmentalist. I think capitalism, although it's an amazingly creative and productive system in many ways, and one that has benefited my life, just isn't compatible in the long run with the health of human society or the natural environment. As many capitalist economists love to point out, and as Marx commented in 1848, capitalism is a "revolutionary" system when it comes to the development of new technologies.

That means it has the revolutionary ability -- in fact almost the need -- to develop destructive new technologies as well as useful ones. And some of those destructive new technologies, which seem so urgently important for the corporations to invent and commercialize, have horrible environmental effects. Capitalism as described by its defenders is also basically addicted to perpetual economic growth.

Unfortunately, on a finite Earth with finite amounts of water, air, land and other natural resources, perpetual economic growth is impossible. That means for environmental reasons alone, we need to replace capitalism with some other, more sustainable economy. Otherwise it's going to wreck much of this planet, making it permanently unusited for human use.

I'm also a "far leftist" I suppose in opposing some other side effects of capitalism, especially in its American version: i.e. , (a) repeated financial crises, (b) the disruption of the economy by recessions every few years, and (c) the pressures that profit-making corporations are under to constantly invest in "higher labor productivity," meaning the replacement of human labor by machines. Which generates unemployment.

On the question of slavery, though, I think leftists as well as conservatives need to recognize one of capitalism's greatest triumphs -- the elimination of African-American slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade in both the New World and Europe in the 1800s, thanks in large part to the gradual replacement of slave labor by machinery. Eric Williams, a Caribbean historian and former prime minister of Trinidad, also argues in his book "Capitalism & Slavery" that while the slave trade was essential to the growth of British capitalism and the launching of the industrial revolution in the 1700s, the growth of British factories helped to undermine the political support for slave-based sugar plantations in the Americas by the 1800s. The new factory system, although often brutal in its treatment of white workers in Britain, gave rich Englishmen something new & profitable to invest in besides slave-run sugar and tobacco plantations.

This reduced elite opposition to the abolitionist movement -- making possible a huge advance in human liberty worldwide. To answer your other questions: no, I don't want to own slaves and I'm not homophobic any more, although I don't choose myself to have sex with gay men. I think it's fine for them if they choose it, but I don't want to participate.

"Different strokes for different folks" kind of thing.

I am far right. But I don't own slaves nor do I want to. I am not a homophob.

I have many friends that are gay. On social issues I am nutral. But on potlitical issues I am as far right as you can every get.

I am entirely against hand outs and goverment funding. I would love to see a canidate in life try to reduce the size of the government!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.