Well, we're not all "right wing nut jobs". Just me and a couple others.
If I'm not a big fan of some of those strips, it's not so much because of their political leanings but because they're political at all. I don't think it's possible to be preachy and funny at the same time (which is why M*A*S*H went in the toilet so early and stayed there).
But wait a minute, is "This Modern World" the one by Tom Tomorrow? 'Cause if nothing else at least the art is cool on that one. I used to dig "Funky Winkerbean" back when the cast was in high school and it was more humor-oriented than the "Gasoline Alley"-type slice of life stuff Batiuk's doing now (he's a nice guy, though...met him at Mid-Ohio Con a couple of times). "Sally Forth" I don't get at all...on that strip's best day ever you might get a mild chuckle. Makes "Family Circus" look like a laugh riot.
In general the decline of newspaper comics has been even more dramatic and complete than that of comic books. I haven't seen a really strong strip since "Calvin." But I do love the old stuff: "Krazy Kat," "Polly And Her Pals" and "Pogo" (hey, that got pretty left-leaning!). Plus the adventure strips that, after all, spawned comic books in the first place: "Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy", "Dick Tracy", "Tarzan", "Terry and the Pirates" and "The Phantom." And in the event of fire, I'd probably leave behind my "Superman Archives" and save my complete Kitchen Sink collection of Alex Raymond "Flash Gordon" hardbacks!