Leaving aside the abortion issue, and the war in Iraq for the moment. I would like to address economics. In recent years, I've been thinking about zero-sum games.
In a zero-sum game, there is a fixed amount of goods to go around, if one person has more, then another person has less. In a non-zero-sum game, it is perfectly possible for everyone to have less, or everyone to have more, or a mix with the total amount of goods either more or less than at the beginning.
Most liberal positions seem to revolve around a belief that the economy is a zero-sum game. The key issues seem to be to assure that everyone gets their fair share of the pie. If someone is rich, it is at the expense of others who are poor and that wealth should be redistributed since it is unfairly held.
Most conservative positions seem to revolve around the belief that ever more goods can be created and that the best way to assure that everyone has plenty is to make sure that the people who create the goods have the assets to create even more. Of course the downside is that very little effort is spent on making sure that others share the pie.
What do you think?