Generally speaking, as a conservative, I disagree with what the left wants to achieve. When I do agree with their goals, such as to reduce poverty, I tend to disagree with their methods. Like Benjamin Franklin said, “I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.”

However, the left is not always, universally wrong and they’ve done some very fine things in the past. One major effort the left has been particularly successful in is with racism. Racism has been so successfully shamed and crushed by society that people treat racial slurs worse than they do four letter cursing and even blasphemy. You can say “god dammit” on television but you can’t say allot of other things. They’ve been so successful that a new version of Tom Sawyer is being written without the racial slurs in it, even though they’re shown in a mocking light and show young people the reality of some of our more painful history.