I would agree with the OP in that I do perceive the general political hue to be distinctly red on the forum.
Perhaps this due to two things:
Firstly, I see a gradual drift to left across all Western democracies during my lifetime. For instance, there are almost none which do not relentlessly spend far more than they can raise from taxes.
Secondly, I myself have become increasingly reactionary with age. I do recall that in school, around the third form, an English teacher pointing out that this was an historical truism, dating back as far as the written record. This is typically coupled with a feeling of despair at the lack of respect the young people seem to have...
My "objection" to socialism is not a theoretical one, in fact to most teenagers, it seems great. Did to me, anyway. No, the objection is an empirical observation. It always "fails" in the sense that when you have two adjacent and similar societies (to start with) that have socialist and non-socialist regimes in charge, a strange thing seems to happen. The socialists have to keep their citizens from migrating to the not socialist neighbour, usually by restricting border access on pain of injury or death. The reason being that the citizens not living under the socialist regime appear to enjoy a better life-style.
