A few years ago, polling company YouGov asked a question that gets to the heart of the left /
right economic divide.
Not exact matches
It seems to me that the
right - wing of this country is more focused on fire and brimstone issues that
divide us like gay marriage and abortion just so they can avoid the fact that their primary reason for their
economic platform is to feed people's greed.
Instead of trying to gauge the position of party voters on an
economic left -
right scale, we can look at where they stand on issues that belong to what may be termed a cosmopolitan - communitarian
divide.
That wager, expertly recalled in Paul Sabin's The Bet, is a microcosm of the left -
right divide on the environment and
economic growth that has existed for the past several decades.
It includes 80 items
divided in seven dimensions: emotional wellbeing (satisfaction, self - concept, stress absence); interpersonal relationships (interactions, relationships and supports); material wellbeing (
economic status, employment and living place situation); personal development (education, emotional competence and performance); physical wellbeing (health, everyday activities, health care services and free time); self - determination (autonomy, goals / values, choices); social inclusion (integration and participation in the community, community roles and social supports), and
rights (legal / human
rights).
Solution is
divide Ontario into 4 new ecological -
economic entities (with all the
rights / tax priv etc as a province) S / W (London or Windsor can bloom), North (new city to be created), East (a «Brasilia» here), Gr Golden Horseshoe, + Greater Ottawa — it can join Prov of Quebec or make deal w la Belle Prov to annex 100mi using watershed boundaries.