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I consider myself slightly to the right of MO. I guess more MO machmir. I hate labels. I think that many people on this forum have a very skewed idea of what MO means. A person is either a shomer mitzvos or not. Some of us are mroe makpid in certain mitzvos, and some of us (even the vey Yeshivish) are not as makpid in other mitzvos.
I see the division in this way – the so-called MO seem to be thought of as less frum in mitzvos bein adam laMakom, while the chareidi are perceived as deficient in mitzvos bein adam l’chaveiro (please note – I am saying it is a PERCEPTION, not that chareidi or otherwise very frum yidden are not makpid to be good to other Jews). The MO are accused of being less tzniusdig ( I don’t know, my friends and I try very hard to always dress b’tznius and act properly), and the right-wing are often the ones that are caught in government financial fraud of some type. These things DO happen on both sides and across the spectrum.
IMHO, it is time for Jews to STOP being so quickly and harshly judgmental and labeling everyone else in what ultimately is a negative way. BE concerned with how YOU act and what YOU do, and help be mechazeik other Jews whom you perceive as lacking in their avoda, by acting in such a way as to encourage them to want to emulate those qualities that are so important. Also recognize that not everything you do is asked of us by Hashem, and that all Yidden who do what Hashem’s Ratzon is, are frum,e ven when they fulfill that Ratzon with fewer chumros and minhagim than your own.