Maybe you found Leveragedbuyout's interpretation accurate because both of you have similar background. Living in a developed country and are relatively well off.
A western developed country is not representative of the whole world. You guys are minority, the developing/third world is the majority. And even inside your developed nation, the Middle class is only one segment of your society.
I'm originally from a developing country. To be honest, third world people like us posting so much on forums are probably only the minority of our countrymen. But even if I'm a minority, I still know what the majority is like. I've seen hard working family have to stop their 16-17yrs children from goin to school and send them to work because family financial hardship. Sometime, there are younger kids, going to school and help family work. I've seen very intelligent kids, hard working and do well in school, can't afford to go higher education or have to drop out. And I bet the developing countries in Africa and South America is probably worst. There are lots of people who work hard and are intelligent, but cannot rise up without assistance from government. And without government regulation, their situation can be exploited by outside people.
This is the real situation of the majority world. The society that you and LeveragedBuyout live in, are only the minority.
You ask earlier in that thread (sorry I didn't reply it earlier) why so many Indians, Pakistani, Viet and Chinese members are left wing? well maybe this is the reason, we grew up in a developing countries and see these situation and know what is needed.
I think it wasn't a coincidence that only you, a Japanese, an American and a Filipino (along with a few other outliers) are right wing.