So what political ideology are you?

Menerva Lindsen

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Since we're sorta the Anti-Libertarian society, I'm somewhat interested to see the diversity (or non-diversity, I dont know) of ideologies we've united against a common enemy!:biggrin: I personally am an Anarcho-Syndicalist, so fellows, what're you?
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I do not really like labels, they kind of demand that you adopt a slate of beliefs and values and adhere to them almost like a religious faith. Call me a political atheist, I take nothing on faith and I do not believe anything just because particular people say it. Humans are greedy and their power structures are inherently corrupt and dishonest and I do not trust power to act in any interests except it's own.
 
I do not really like labels, they kind of demand that you adopt a slate of beliefs and values and adhere to them almost like a religious faith. Call me a political atheist, I take nothing on faith and I do not believe anything just because particular people say it. Humans are greedy and their power structures are inherently corrupt and dishonest and I do not trust power to act in any interests except it's own.

Says the far left drone!
 
I do not really like labels, they kind of demand that you adopt a slate of beliefs and values and adhere to them almost like a religious faith. Call me a political atheist, I take nothing on faith and I do not believe anything just because particular people say it. Humans are greedy and their power structures are inherently corrupt and dishonest and I do not trust power to act in any interests except it's own.

Says the far left drone!

Since the Socialist Workers Party and IWW are hardly ever on the ballot what else can they say?
 
Since we're sorta the Anti-Libertarian society, I'm somewhat interested to see the diversity (or non-diversity, I dont know) of ideologies we've united against a common enemy!:biggrin: I personally am an Anarcho-Syndicalist, so fellows, what're you?
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Laissez-faire capitalist.

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By the way
I'm...Catholic. That's the best way to describe it. The new Pope has been in many ways a wake-up call that Catholicism and right-wing politics are as incompatible as Catholicism and left-wing politics.
Generally speaking, I can see there's a problem with the system as it is, but I don't think either party really has the solution.
 
By the way
I'm...Catholic. That's the best way to describe it. The new Pope has been in many ways a wake-up call that Catholicism and right-wing politics are as incompatible as Catholicism and left-wing politics.
Generally speaking, I can see there's a problem with the system as it is, but I don't think either party really has the solution.

Generally speaking, what problem do you see with the system?
 
Don't bother to label myself, as it just means being painted by people who don't know me or share my beliefs.

If I said I was a 'free market capitalist' people would lump me with the likes of Greenspan, Reagan, and the Chicago Boys.

If I said I was a 'communist' people would arbitrarily accuse me of being a Stalinist, Maoist, or totalitarian.

And so on...
 
I'm all over the place, honestly. Conservative is the label I use because I tend to lean closer to that than the left, though they make good points on occasion too. I believe in social progress. I believe in protecting the rights of vulnerable groups. I believe in welfare, universal healthcare, free education, and public works as a solution for unemployment. I just don't believe in mandating immediate, sweeping change from the top down, think abortion is remotely acceptable, or appreciate the left's insistence that you have to agree with them fully on every single point or you're a right wing radical Christian American Talibani(tm) to be silenced and marginalized like any other enemy of the Cause.
 
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I find it fascinating how the two "sides" approach this stuff so differently.

Whether it's here or in "real life" or in political campaigns, conservatives fall all over each other trying to label themselves as more conservative than the other guy, and liberals are far more likely to avoid calling themselves liberal. You get far more of the "well, I don't like labels" routine from the lefties, very shifty.

I saw this happening even after Bush's horrific presidency.

In my town, when driving up to a campaign sign on the side of the road, you see the word "Conservative" before you even see the name of the candidate. And for the lefty candidates, they won't even put their freaking party.

Always interesting to watch.

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I find it fascinating how the two "sides" approach this stuff so differently.

Whether it's here or in "real life" or in political campaigns, conservatives fall all over each other trying to label themselves as more conservative than the other guy, and liberals are far more likely to avoid calling themselves liberal. You get far more of the "well, I don't like labels" routine from the lefties, very shifty.

I saw this happening even after Bush's horrific presidency.

In my town, when driving up to a campaign sign on the side of the road, you see the word "Conservative" before you even see the name of the candidate. And for the lefty candidates, they won't even put their freaking party.

Always interesting to watch.

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You call it shifty when "lefties" don't want to put labels on themselves? What do you suppose they are afraid of? If, as you say, liberals don't want to be known as liberals......can you offer any thoughts as to why that is the case?

Earmuffs.
 

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