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The current term you use, "leftist", to attempt to argue by labeling anyone who has a different viewpoint than yours is quite laughable.
The true historical Leftists (Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro) are anything but peaceful. Just like the "rightists" (Hitler, Batista, Franco, Mussolini, Samoza) they ruled through oppression.

Actually most of the "rightists" you named were actually lefties. Hitler's group was called the "National Socialist German Workers Party," and both he and Mussolini nationalized almost all industry, health care, education, transportation and media, just like the "leftists" you named. Despite a lot of propaganda to the contrary, the only practical difference between Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin and Pol Pot was how they chose their victims. Batista and Samoza were never totalitarians and, although they ran their countries like a criminal enterprise, if you stayed out of their way they would usually leave you, relatively speaking, alone.

As for high beams, and most things, I have a simple philosophy. If it pisses me off when someone does it to me, I try not to do it to others.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.