He described himself as a socialist, but almost all the policies he desired could have been taken from the Republican party platform.
As he had extensive knowledge of South Africa, I asked him what he thought about the future of South Africa. He thought it would be great, because South Africa had such wonderful natural resources.
I asked him why he thought things would get better, and his only response was the young people had much better sources of information than they had previously.
I considered his forecast to be hopelessly Polyannish.
As a socialist, he believed people were naturally "good".
The fantasy of the liberal is working together and everybody getting ahead. Living in a liberal society is like living in a crab barrel. The moment a crab climbs up, somebody is going to pull it down.
It just makes society not so dissimilar to a predator pit.