By and large, I'd call myself on the left of the spectrum, but I find that Beep's views are misrepresented often.

I can have a great deal of respect for how he looks at things, and the consistency, candour, and willingness to acknowledge error, while disagreeing with some of the basic tenets.

In short, it's possible for us to disagree with honour, and I often find common ground with his views. I do sometimes wish he'd see what life was like on the down side of the median income these days (as opposed to the bad ol' days of yore in NA).

For myself, I'm an equality of opportunity liberal, and I think that (esp. in this day and age of globalised competition), not giving everyone the opportunity to live up to their potential regardless of socio-economic origins is simply setting up our societies to be less competitive than they can be... and that the decline of relative economic power of the last twenty years of the West (and esp. in North America), while to some extent inevitable, has been both accelerated and deepened by neglect of public infrastructure in poor regions, both of the educational and more prosaic bricks'n'mortar (or pipes, or asphalt, or electrical, etc) variety.