Let's admit who we are

I'm on the right; Jim Wallis should be willing to say he's on the left | Marvin Olasky

Illustration by Krieg Barrie

Have you noticed that maps all over the world put the home team at the center of things? European maps often have the Americas on the left and Eurasia/Africa on the right, putting Europe in the center. Japanese maps reverse that, putting Eurasia/Africa on the left so that Japan is in the center. And in the United States we've often cut the Old World in half so the New World can be smack dab in the middle.

Many of us do the same thing ideologically. Liberals claim the center by placing socialism on the left and national socialism on the right, even though Lenin/Stalin and Hitler/other Nazis had much in common as they centralized power and preached hatred. A more accurate spectrum would place totalitarians of many stripes on the left and defenders of religious, political, and economic freedom on the right.