LOL the bulk of my friends outside of PJ are "lefties" and in fact I had a rather spirited debate with one of them yesterday when we went out to lunch. He will not talk politics with me for any length of time, however, because he gets emotional, where I don't, and that bothers him. However, when you talk groups, you have to generalize. Groups are not monolithic, for example, there are a few bigots in the TEA Party movement, but the gestalt view is not bigoted. There are democrats who don't feel that successful people should be punitively taxed, but that's not the gestalt democrat view.