Levels of Political Thinking

Thinking leftishly is easy. It's the default thinking, and one receives social and professional validation for it everywhere, 24/7/365.

It's what I call "Level 1 Thinking." There are, to my mind, eight levels, and you don't get to REAL Conservative thinking (Levels 4, 6 and 8 ) without REAL work, real internal turmoil, and sometimes lots of suffering... along with much time spent in a social, and possibly professional, desert.