Left or right of your parents?

[Ozzie Osmond]

crankedup said:

Sometimes in politics you need to look back to see whats ahead.

Careful; you'll confuse them!

[Silver]

mattnunn said:

Twincam16 said:

900T-R said:

Silver said:

though bizarrely I still get labelled as right-wing because of my views on motoring and car ownership.

That's you and me both then. Shame the supposedly left-libertarian cannot see how authoritarian their views are where (not just) 'transport' is concerned.

Me too. Why are cars automatically seen as a right-wing 'thing' by so many people? Especially given that so many classics are essentially modern art, traditionally a left-wing pursuit.

I think it's probably because there is an "assumption" of a fact that car pollution is causing some unreversible and lasting damage to the planet and knock on problems for the future of humanity. The fact people would ignore this "assumed" fact and use their cars for personal gain to the detriment of wider society, presumably with a proportionally larger side effect to the poorer and less able to cope sections of society (who can't afford personal oxygen tents or whatever distopian view has been adopted by society) your seen as acting in an antisocial manner, more in common with the "right"

There is a lot of assumptions in there though obviously.

I don't think you're that far off the mark though. Chuck in some car-shaped ostentatious displays of personal wealth and Tory selfishness and you're about there.