Left or Right?

I disagree the reason people are selfish is that they have to be to function in a capitalist society, sure there may be the odd person that is really power hungry no matter what but in my view most people are caring and would care more except that everyone is scrabbling for resources and money which is exactly what a capitalist society is all about. You may think I'm being naive and if I was talking about implementing it in today's society I'd agree with you completely, but my view is that if you gradually change the system of government to communism/direct democracy/most left wing ideologies that aren't accepted, then the people would change to, you can't just change from a revolution, it has to be gradual so that the people can realize their inner nature and get over the shock of the change. And the examples you used, gay marriage, marijuana and abortion I'd say that people now-adays would definitely legalize abortion and gay marriage, and maybe marijuana as well, as you may have noticed that people are becoming extremely anti-discriminatory lately and who said all Catholics and Christians are against gay marriage, if you left that up to them they would still legalize it, maybe even the abortion one. People would only think they wouldn't because of the few fundamentalists who are far right wing as it is.