Political Leanings?

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-04-22 11:47am

What would you consider yourself in your political views?

SWPIGWANG · Post by **SWPIGWANG** » 2003-04-22 12:15pm

Where is the "try to take over the world" option?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-04-22 12:16pm

I work for a Union, I am a fanatical supporter of people keeping their noses out of my fucking civilrights and what I do with my free time. I am also a public service employee and am somewhat practiced at keeping my mouth shut, about politics.... (at work at least)

However I am completly alienated to both political parties, as they are committed to doing nothing....

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-04-22 12:35pm

The Yosemite Bear wrote:I work for a Union, I am a fanatical supporter of people keeping their noses out of my fucking civilrights and what I do with my free time. I am also a public service employee and am somewhat practiced at keeping my mouth shut, about politics.... (at work at least)

However I am completly alienated to both political parties, as they are committed to doing nothing....

but aren't Unions committed to facilitation of the ability of others to do nothing? I was a Teamster for a while and hell, the boys at the local devoted their lives for what they believed was my god cinin right to do as little as possible for UPS and still get paid.

Strafe · Post by **Strafe** » 2003-04-22 01:07pm

Left - Making the world more socialist one vote at a time.

Eat it capitalist dogs!

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-04-22 01:16pm

I suppose I'd fall under right, but I'm not a very good "right winger" if I'm in favor of gay marriage, drug legalization, strict separation of church and state, and legal abortion up to the point conscious brain activity is detectable in the fetus. But I'm a lousy liberal, because I support strict color-blindness in regards to race both personally and officially with no regards given to "past injustice", minimal government, lassez-faire economic policy, and realpolitik foreign policy. I'm a living illustration of how strict left-right divisions aren't necessarily accurate.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-04-22 01:30pm

I'd say "moderate right", since I consider myself conservative in many aspects, but there are some liberal policies I agree with.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2003-04-22 01:34pm

Moderate. Pretty much.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-04-22 01:57pm

I don't like the polarization. I prefer to identify as a classical liberal.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-04-22 02:38pm

I'm slightly right of center. There are things that I agree with that could be considered to be leftist, but, there are many things that agree with that are considered to be on the right side of the political spectrum...

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-04-22 02:45pm

RedImperator wrote:I suppose I'd fall under right, but I'm not a very good "right winger" if I'm in favor of gay marriage, drug legalization, strict separation of church and state, and legal abortion up to the point conscious brain activity is detectable in the fetus. But I'm a lousy liberal, because I support strict color-blindness in regards to race both personally and officially with no regards given to "past injustice", minimal government, lassez-faire economic policy, and realpolitik foreign policy. I'm a living illustration of how strict left-right divisions aren't necessarily accurate.

You sound like a Libertarian. That's how I'd characterize most of my views anyway.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-04-22 02:47pm

Durandal wrote:
RedImperator wrote:I suppose I'd fall under right, but I'm not a very good "right winger" if I'm in favor of gay marriage, drug legalization, strict separation of church and state, and legal abortion up to the point conscious brain activity is detectable in the fetus. But I'm a lousy liberal, because I support strict color-blindness in regards to race both personally and officially with no regards given to "past injustice", minimal government, lassez-faire economic policy, and realpolitik foreign policy. I'm a living illustration of how strict left-right divisions aren't necessarily accurate.
You sound like a Libertarian. That's how I'd characterize most of my views anyway.

IIRC, RedImperator is a non-capital-L libertarian

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-04-22 03:07pm

phongn wrote:
Durandal wrote:
RedImperator wrote:I suppose I'd fall under right, but I'm not a very good "right winger" if I'm in favor of gay marriage, drug legalization, strict separation of church and state, and legal abortion up to the point conscious brain activity is detectable in the fetus. But I'm a lousy liberal, because I support strict color-blindness in regards to race both personally and officially with no regards given to "past injustice", minimal government, lassez-faire economic policy, and realpolitik foreign policy. I'm a living illustration of how strict left-right divisions aren't necessarily accurate.
You sound like a Libertarian. That's how I'd characterize most of my views anyway.
IIRC, RedImperator is a non-capital-L libertarian

Yup. So am I.

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-04-22 03:12pm

right leaning, though supporter of gay marriages, true colorblindness in society, seperations of church and state, etc. Pretty similar to RedImperator.

Hamel · Post by **Hamel** » 2003-04-22 03:17pm

Left

Regulated capitalism, very liberal social viewpoints

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-04-22 03:18pm

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:I'd say "moderate right", since I consider myself conservative in many aspects, but there are some liberal policies I agree with.

Same here... your not alone

Cyaround,
Jason

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-04-22 03:21pm

Some libertarians will be quite insulted if you refer to them as a capital L libertarian.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-04-22 03:21pm

I'm not quite a capital-L libertarian, though I voted for Browne in 2000 (I could do so safely because Gore's lead in New Jersey was so huge my protest vote wasn't going to make much difference). I used to be, but I've come around to the point of view held by the Republican Liberty Caucus, P.J. O'Rourke, and a few others, that small-l libertarianism is best achieved working through the major parties and practical political considerations have to take precedence sometimes over idealogical concerns. Still, I wish the LP the best of luck and if I ever ran for local office, I'd probably end up doing it as a Libertarian.

jegs2 · Post by **jegs2** » 2003-04-22 03:26pm

I lean from right to moderate right most of the time. Since I'm a military officer, that would hardly be surprising to anyone.

paladin · Post by **paladin** » 2003-04-22 04:51pm

I'm moderate right.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-04-22 05:10pm

I don't fall under the traditional labels of 'left' and 'right'. I take each issue on it's on merit and come down on the side of whoever has the hottest chicks at their rallies. </non-sequiter>

Seriously, though, I have almost the exact same views of RedImp. There are issues I do not agree with the Right on(social issues, mostly) and issues I do not agree with the Left on(economic and foreign policy, and the left has just seemed really spineless lately).

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-04-22 05:48pm

I am slightly left of centre, I used to work for a political party and it was a left wing party, one of the few leftwing parties in Northern Ireland. I worked for my party for two and a half years as a volunteer untill certain members of the party started trouble for me. The certain menbers where also members of the Ulster Volunteer Force and threatened to have me shot in the knee. Even so dispite my bad experiences i am still persuing a career in politics.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-04-22 05:51pm

According to that site that ranks people based on two axes (Left/Right and Authoritarian/Libertarian) I'm almost in the center of both, leaning slightly toward left libertarian.

Not that I would have voted for Nader, at any rate.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-04-22 07:29pm

Crayz9000 wrote:According to that site that ranks people based on two axes (Left/Right and Authoritarian/Libertarian) I'm almost in the center of both, leaning slightly toward left libertarian.

Not that I would have voted for Nader, at any rate.

Nader isn't the Libertarian Party's candidate; he's the Green Party's.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-04-22 07:52pm

That site is quite frankly horrible for finding out where your political alignment is, at least on the American political spectrum.