Charles Bukowski

Jeez, Carter, where the hell you been?

I think Buk had no real political affiliation and had disdain for both sides of the crap show that was then and certainly is now US politics. But he likely had both left and right traits to some extent. He was a fan of the underdog and often expressed his somewhat sympathetic thoughts on the down-trodden and the guys who worked shit jobs as he did, and that's arguably more left than right, but he also expressed a desire to be left alone (on a small scale anyway), so you might call that more right than left. I strongly feel that he felt no pull in either direction in terms of liberal or conservative. He just felt what he felt and believed what he believed.

The only vote he is allegedly know to have cast was for Clinton in 1992, but that doesn't mean all that much. One of the things I like about Buk is that regardless of his position on things, he almost never, or perhaps never, made it political. He was better than that.

As for Dinosauria, We, I'll have to read it again to comment further on your opinion.