Are autistics conservatives or liberals?

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Unless you are farming your own plot and roughing it, you are a collectivist. That's how civilization operates. We are not tigers.

Let's face it - the individual is more often than not helpless and impotent. Regardless of conservatives bragging about their rugged individualism, the fact of the matter is, without society to exist, they would soon die. Even the mountain men of old needed stores to buy their supplies from, and a rendezvous to meet other mountain men in order to conduct business.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Speaking of myself politicly, I've gone through various stages, as I've matured personally, and gained perspective based upon my life experiences. When I first became interested in politics, at the tender age of about 11, I thought that I was a conservative, when in reality I just tended to resent authority in general. And then after alternating between Communism, and right-libertarianism, I've finally settled upon the left, broadly speaking. I seem to favor social democracy, pragmaticly, and left-libertarianism, idealisticly. I also support the ideas of eco-socialism, and identify with the Green Party. In my opinion, autists tend towards libertarianism, due to our love of personal pursuits, and personal freedom, and on the other hand, towards socialism, because of our love of order, and personal security. So I feel that generally speaking, libertarian socialism is a synthesis of these counter balanced sentiments. But I've met a number of Communists, on this one message board I frequent, whom turned out to be aspies.

I'm mostly lefty-liberal -- pro-choice, pro-environment, pro-arts, etc. There are a few issues on which I go a little more right. I'm cool with the death penalty, wearing fur, eating meat, and guns. I've been known to vote Dem on most cases, but throw in a couple of GOP on the criminal courts. I think when a person commits a felony, s/he should be punished. Rehab can and should be provided, but being locked up is about punishment. You do the crime, you do the time. I've often considered the possibility of bringing back public floggings for misdemeanor offences. Maybe do it once a week, like a Wednesday lunchtime. I think the double-whammy of the pain and fear of the flogging and the humilation endured by that happening in front of a bunch of people would be enough to change at least some peoples' way.

I'm liberal, but not super left-y. Politically speaking, I budded too early. From ages 13 to 15, I adored debates and was fascinated by politics. I was even in a Youth in Government group, governed by Robert's Rules of Order. But in the end I decided that in politics, there was simply too much blathering of people who don't know what they are talking about. And that gets old, from both sides.

Socialist, and have been as long as ever considered that sort of thing. I remember ranting at my mother how the bus service would be better if it weren't private, aged 12. Though I moved to a more liberal-left position under the influence of my then-conservative wife, I've moved back to the left and brought her some of the way with me.

I think being possibly you could equate being a reactionary to a certain sort of anti-intellectualism. I have a lot of time for proper conservatives. Don't tend to get on with right-libertarians. A 'proper' conservative to me is who's left when you take out the reactionaries and libertarians. And by 'take out', I don't mean shooting. The gulag will do fine.