What are you?

Karl Keller will be devastated.

 

i would have been happier with a strongly left/slightly left/slighty right/strongly right breakdown, but i voted.

 

I'm right wing in some issues but left in others.
And besides this depends on your particular country.
Even a right-winger here could easily be construed as leftist over yonder.

 

The political language of left and right grew directly out of the experience of the French revolutionary assemblies.

So in keeping with the current spirit of disavowing all things French I will simply say that what I am is a man with opinions.

 

I Believe that the massive voting democracy only works in small societies were everyone is equal educated and capable. I am on the left or the right?

 

i voted (left)

but i don't really post here, but i'd rather not hear about how these boards are full of 'lefto pinko commies' from anyone because i think there are a multitude of different sides and opinions from my observations of the board, and although there might be leanings to the left or right on issues, i think it's a pretty even distribution of opinions

 

I'm just a midfielder, defense.

 

Yeah! Woo-hoo! At last! Anarchy now! You're all a bunch of ass-************ing ************tards who enjoy ass-************ing and ************ing each other's asses! Yee-haw!






















Oh. Never mind.

 

When I get a more complete platform for being a "Flaming Moderate," you'll be seeing that term all over the place. Thing is, a lot of the "style" wouldn't look much different than Mr. Loney's latest diatribe, just more centered.

I may never get there, but I had to state the goal at some point.

BTW, yes, that's my way of saying "You're Number 1" to this concept.

 

I'm a passionate New Labour, center Democrat moderate. Everyone else is a nutjob.

 

I write and throw right-handed, but have ambidextrous tendencies when it comes to most everything else.

 

"left" and right"; "conservative" and "liberal"...

the left/right continuum is poli sci 101 horsemanure that facilitates mass-media level political discussion, which is to say no real discussion at all. The above fail to accurately describe our world, in any sense; thus, they should, well not be discarded, but rather placed in a language museum or some such...

As for me, I'm accepting, both of the universe unfolding as it should and of our role in forging that reality.

Contradiction? Only if you've limited your mind to Western notions of "logic" instead of incorporating that system into a more expansive POV...

 

15 posts. That took some time.

 

Do you want to decide that I'm a liberal? Ask me about handgun controls.

Do you want to decide that I'm a conservative? Ask me about political correctness and reverse discrimination.

Do you want to decide that I'm a tree-hugging internationalist? Ask me about Kyoto.

Do you want to decide that I'm an unstable, loose cannon, unilateralist cowboy? Ask me about Iraq.

Do you want to decide that I'm apolitical? Ask me how I feel about people who'se favorite political verb is "smash" - all the way from Al Sharpton to Jerry Falwell, not excluding the Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

For me to pound a square peg into a round hole and pretend that I "lean left" or "lean right" would be to distort reality far more than to shed light on it.

 

What he said.

 

Re: Re: What are you?

Nah, no longer even troubled by ad hominen attacks.

How do you think Galbraith would vote??

 

Well that's not fair, considering most people are probably closer to moderate than anyhthing else.

Me? Slightly left of center.

 

Let's see:

--I support a woman's right to choose.

--I think the government should fund/support effective charitable organizations, even if they are religiously based.

--I support the North American Free Trade Agreement, and free trade structures in general.

--I beleive the Nazis had a right to march in Skokie.

--I think anti-sodomy laws are unconstitutional.

--I support our military intervention in Iraq, though I believe it is a high risk strategy.

--I support the University of Michigan's position on admission standards, and in general sensible efforts at affirmative action by reasonable institutional caretakers.

--I think single insurer socialized medicine is a disaster.

--I believe in environmental protection laws.

--I believe that there are ways to develop natural resources for economic benefit consistent with stringent environmental protection laws.

--I think we should eliminate the capital gains tax, and support the Bush tax cut plan.

--I thought the impeachment of President Clinton was a complete waste of time, money, television air time, and newsprint -- and served no useful political, cultural, or moral purpose.

--I thought the PROCESS of the impeachment of President Clinton reflected the astounding far-sightedness and brilliance of the founders, and the extraordinary effectiveness and adaptability of the constitution they wrote.

--I think Bill Clinton's major historical legacy will be as the president who was revealed as having been fellated in the Oval Office.

--I believe strongly that the system of free market capitalism, and the transparent rule of law, is the greatest, most powerful economic system the world has ever seen, and will EVER see -- and that every nation in the world would be wise to embrace it.

--I believe the United States, despite its flaws, is now and likely will continue to be, the greatest nation on the face of the earth.

Left leaning?? Right leaning?? You decide

 

Why, because we get gems such as, "Communism isn't inherently evil."

 

It isn't.

Totalitarianism is. Fascism is. Nazism is.

But there's nothing evil about "From each according to his ability to each according to his need." It's possible to be a pacifist and a communist, for example.