Here's the wing-thing that confuses me... when I was coming up the Left was all about "do your own thing" and the Right was "do as you're told."  This would have been a left-wing piece in the 1960s-70s...(!?)

But now the ex- and post-hippies are in charge, and they're much more about "do as you're told"-- even more than the 1960s-70s right-wing ever was.  So you tell me which wing it is.  I just say I'm "libertarian" which
means something to me even if no one else gets it.  It is NOT "moderate" and it is NOT "between" the Left and the Right.  It's radical AND reactionary, conservative in some ways and liberal in others, and though it's not formally in the mainstream it reflects more of what most people think and feel than people realise.  I have never gotten anyone to disagree with me intelligently.  At some point they just insult me and walk away, every single time.  You've seen it.

It took years of mass brainwashing for this state of affairs to exist...

—Ron Copis