The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define politics in the way it did in the past.

Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

There's no sustenance in the past.

Your past does not define you but what does is who you are now and what your AIMING to BECOME!