AK-Stoic Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 first and foremost I am apolitical neither left nor right wing. I fully believe in pro choice and equality for everyone. it would be better if U.S. government reduced funding to the military and the prison system we don't need more prisons nor a larger military, we need to put more funding into health care system and Education system in America.! as well as enacting more stringent standards for Environmental policies and Resources management. constantly relying on Fossil fuels to provide energy production/demand without pursuing a viable alternative is a risky policy for the future generations and most likely will result in fighting needless wars around the globe in the pursuit of Oil. I am fully aware of the fact I am oversimplifying a ridiculously complex matter! conservative, progressive, mindsets will never see things eye to eye on anything. Link to post Share on other sites
SorryNotSorry Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I regard myself as off the map. I have no faith in the institution of politics, and most of my solutions to contemporary problems are too much for most other Americans to stomach. Link to post Share on other sites
Zerο Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I don't exactly like the left wing, more of a feeling of indifference - but I deeply hate the right wing. Environmentalism, renewable energy, education, and infrastructure are most important to me. Oh, Elizabeth Warren is probably my favorite politician. Link to post Share on other sites
Skycaptain Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Well, after our election in Britain this year I think that every single party has only one item on their political agenda. Namely slag off every other party whilst spending more, raising less taxes and borrowing less. Funnily enough this just doesn't add up. Link to post Share on other sites
Nevyn Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Well, after our election in Britain this year I think that every single party has only one item on their political agenda. Namely slag off every other party whilst spending more, raising less taxes and borrowing less. Funnily enough this just doesn't add up. That's true, but nothing about anything in our world adds up. We're just wracking up debt, environmental, food & water, and resource problems for the next generations without even trying to come up with solutions. I'm glad I live now, because the future is looking pretty grim. Link to post Share on other sites
Kelly Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Oh, Elizabeth Warren is probably my favorite politician. She is my Senator. I voted for her. Link to post Share on other sites
Bad_Mr_Tree Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 left/right - its all political theatre and nothing more... if americans or other "democratic" peoples had a coherent and meaningful understanding of "democracy", CEOs and managers would be on the streets begging for mercy, not flying around in private jets and getting paid 700x the salary of their lowest wage slaves. Link to post Share on other sites
SorryNotSorry Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 left/right - its all political theatre and nothing more... if americans or other "democratic" peoples had a coherent and meaningful understanding of "democracy", CEOs and managers would be on the streets begging for mercy, not flying around in private jets and getting paid 700x the salary of their lowest wage slaves. Tru dat! The US is not a democracy in the sense that peasants like me are not writing and implementing laws... it's run by something more like a cross between a mafia state and a corporate-governmental junta. BTW author Chrystia Freeland says the US is in its second Gilded Age. By God, I believe she's right! Link to post Share on other sites
Blomdor Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I am a social democrat stuck in the States. In other words, very liberal, and extremely so for my area. I have no political allegiance to either of the two major parties here; one of them is moderate-to-conservative and the other is extremely conservative. Bernie Sanders gets my vote come election time, though I've little faith in the efficacy of doing so at the moment with the widespread apathy and corruption in this country. I find the left-right divide to be insufficiently descriptive or well-defined to be adequate in itself. Many in the States would say that our Democratic Party is left-wing, which I find to be false. It only appears so if it is contrasted exclusively against the Republican Party. I would describe myself as a liberal that is pro-choice, in favor of decriminalizing the use of all mind-altering substances, a pacifist, against censorship and the inhibition of freedom in general, and a devoted environmentalist. I fully agree that the States is within a second Gilded Age, and have been saying so since the Bush years. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Socially left (for the most part), fiscally right. (By US terms.) Guess that means center wing? No loyalty to any parties, they all corrupt with time. I'd vote third party, but they don't get enough coverage or exposure to have a snowball's chance in hell. Well, in national elections. On more local ones, I've sometimes voted for the libertarian candidate. Link to post Share on other sites
Sonatine Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I'm French and I'm with the far/radical left because they're the only ones at least pretending to have a care for us. Not to mention the ecological and economical issues. The right-wing stigmatizes minorities and the main left wing party is indifferent towards our fate and the fate of the masses. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Pretty far left of the middle, especially by US standards. Even by German ones, I'm strongly left-wing... haven't voted for anyone right of the Greens in decades. (But a wee bit to the right from CBC... who's kinda the political north pole... wherever you go from where she is, it's always to the right! ;)) Link to post Share on other sites
Spectre/Ex/Machina Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Im center/right. Link to post Share on other sites
Lost247365 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Left-Wing Libertarian aka a modern American Liberal ;) Link to post Share on other sites
Perissodactyla Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 “The World’s Smallest Political Quiz stands ready to help you determine your political identity." http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/quiz.php?iframe=true&width=850&height=100% Link to post Share on other sites
ThaHoward Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Social to Classical Liberal to Liberal-Conservative and Conservative-Liberal :p All I know is that I am not a socialist or social democrat (or bigoted) - alltough some here have called me a communist :lol: According to the test I got 80% personal and 80% economic, maling me a libertarian. Link to post Share on other sites
allrightalready Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 as far as most tests i take i end up so far left that i break the graph but i identify as an anarchist Link to post Share on other sites
Sally Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Left. Very very very left. Oh yes. As far from the right as is possible. Link to post Share on other sites
Amorphous Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I am pretty sure the Chinese goverment is monitoring this, so in order not to lose my visa, I better declare that I am a communist! And since I've turned my back to politics, I guess that puts me on the far right. Link to post Share on other sites
Rising Sun Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Neither. I consider rigid ideologies as the open door to extremism and terrorism. I want to be free to choose whatever I believe in and I refuse to impose my personal views on anyone beyond simply sharing them. (And I can't impose anything anyway, even if I had a gun I couldn't physically do it) Only basic rights matter and beyond them, there is no objective right and wrong. We can have excellent arguments but we very rarely see the whole picture to say something objective. The rest is just an eternal fight, "I'm right and I'll fight against the rest of the world, which is wrong", and I don't want to take part in that. Link to post Share on other sites
daveb Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 “The World’s Smallest Political Quiz stands ready to help you determine your political identity." http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/quiz.php?iframe=true&width=850&height=100% According to that simplistic quiz (pretty accurate for as simplified as it is): LEFT (LIBERAL) Liberals usually embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but tend to support significant government control of the economy. They generally support a government-funded "safety net" to help the disadvantaged, and advocate strict regulation of business. Liberals tend to favor environmental regulations, defend civil liberties and free expression, support government action to promote equality, and tolerate diverse lifestyles. Link to post Share on other sites
marki Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I hate progressives....I hate conservatives. LIBERTARIAN Libertarians support maximum liberty in both personal and economic matters. They advocate a much smaller government; one that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence. Libertarians tend to embrace individual responsibility, oppose government bureaucracy and taxes, promote private charity, tolerate diverse lifestyles, support the free market, and defend civil liberties. Link to post Share on other sites
Mycroft is Yourcroft Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Veeeeeeeeeeery left Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Far-left. If my country wasn't as ring-winged as it is now, I'd be considered left or even centre-left. The thing about the political centre is it keeps moving.... Link to post Share on other sites
Tanzanite Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Basically I'm independent. Link to post Share on other sites
AK-Stoic Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 being too far in either direction has terrible consequences for everyone, Communists and Fascists extremists are major problem to nearly every single human being on this planet. center left, center right, and center is better option than radical left or right groups. Link to post Share on other sites
Bad_Mr_Tree Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 There is no such thing as centre. It is a position that is only created by what is viewed as "left" and "right". There is nothing inherently just in a centre position. Should we kick a man in the head five times or three? Four would be centre, but how would that be just? This is a fallacy of believing the "moderate" or ethical position lies in the middle, and this idea has been cultivated by marketers and political operatives as it makes guiding peoples decisions much more easy. The centre of unethical and cruel positions is an unethical and cruel position. People shouldn't worry about adopting an extreme position, they should be concerned with understanding what they want in the world and adopting that position. Many times in the past the ethical position was the extreme position. Remember when a slave was worth 3/5 of a person? Link to post Share on other sites
Titus Oates Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I feel like Fascism isn't really "far right" in the sense that... it has very little in common with traditional conservatism. These days, authoritarianism is pretty much always a Left Wing thing. I feel like true right wing authoritarianism died out with the end of most absolutist monarchies. I would call myself a conservative, which in this day and age incorporates much "classical liberal" thought economically and politically. Link to post Share on other sites
stanACEberatheon Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I want my government and public sector small and my private sector large (to pay for everything), with low taxes and the freedom to do whatever I like. This only realistically means that I'll vote centre right and definitely rules out the left, or we'll all end up working for the government in some way, which kind of ruins everything. I think the far left is every bit as bad as the far right, just ask the victims of Pol Pot and Stalin if you don't believe me. On a side note: I feel sorry for UKIP and their voters (in Britain). They got nearly 4 million votes and only 1 MP! The referendum on the EU is probably going to be next year now, so brace yourselves for a MASSIVE brainwashing campaign by the whole of the media and the Tories in order to get us to stay. It won't be pleasant and certainly won't be unbiased either. Link to post Share on other sites
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