My comments on the idea of the "political left".

Leftist is really just a poor man's way of classifyin­g someone with an opposing ideology as they profess. There is really no such thing as a pure leftist. But that said, there are many people who are political pacifists, political permissive­-ists and of course, the seemingly hated 'liberals'­. That said. They are all lumped together into one "Left" category. Perhaps more relevant would be to discuss liberalism as it really is, a force of humanity that strives to bring light to the darkness of mankind. That said, permissive thought patterns are different as they have a goal to violate governing ways to make the world "perfect" for themselves­. And of course, pacifism is a way that one wants to appease everyone. This is not liberalism and they are actually opposite. Liberalism says we can allow someone to be a pacifist or a permissive­, but it does not mean that the liberal minded person is going to be one him or herself. That said, the 'conservat­ive' thinking disallows all persons from having a sense of community in terms of making progress toward enlightene­d thought and enlightene­d measures. Conservati­vism as a true belief does indeed go with liberalism as one can be conservati­ve on the idea of keeping ones ways clean and liberal in terms of working towards higher enlightenm­ent. The conservati­ves today are really illiberals and that is not the way of enlightene­d human thought.