Do you consider yourself more a Democrat or Republican?

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I'm willing to side with whichever party favors rational thought and the rights of the people!

Neither!

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You're goddamned right I'm a Socialist. People matter a hell of a lot more than profits, and true wealth isn't measured by money.

I would consider myself a Rockefeller Republican, in the vein of Susan Collins, Jacob Javits or George Pataki.

Democrat. I support abortions, free healthcare, gay marriage, trans rights, anti capital punishment, I believe in free speech. I can never get myself to trust any republicans.

I'm a registered independent.

I believe in many "liberal" things---and some "conservative" things, too.

I don't believe in out and out socialism or communism.

I believe in our Constitution. I believe the Constitution is a living document that should adjust to the times.

I'm an independent, I agree with conservatives on some issues and liberals on others but I don't agree with or even like either side enough to side with them. I can't side with conservatives because of their stalwart support of Trump, and I can't side with liberals because of these so called SJWs who are not truly interested in justice at all. If you ask me, politics are what truly divide us as human beings, and it could even lead to our downfall.

If somebody put a gun to my head, and asked me to choose between the Dems and the Pubs, I'd tell them to pull the trigger.

I like rational and pragmatic thoughts.

I've come to understand I'm more of a centralist. I'm really just a confused person, I understand arguments from both sides and am not sure where we need to go from here.

This is how I see it....

Democrats want to expand government control and spend tons of money because people are corrupt. Republicans want to reduce government control because people are corrupt and people are who makes up our government. I would rather compete against corrupt people versus a corrupt government, in that sense you could say I'm more right leaning. Equally, I don't think it's right for rich people to suck up all the wealth and offer crappy jobs with low wages for the majority(Ultimately, they are gaining more and more of the wealth as the population continues to buy their products(Take from the poor, give to the rich).

In a perfect world, we would all have equal steaks in wealth and everyone could follow their passion, we do not need competition to drive creation, people love to explore and create, the problem that stops that from happening is corruption, that is the communist dream. The communist dream always ends up the same, government enslaves the majority. The same can be said for capitalism except the rich enslave the majority yet anyone can make it from poor to rich if they try hard enough and are creative, not something that is easy or even possible to accomplish in a corrupted communist society. Mostly what we need to do is fix humanity, until that happens, we will suffer.

Thus, the economy works best with republicans and democrats putting each-other in check, when it falls more one way, things get worse.

Can't align with any political party. Can't agree unilaterally with one. I'm not the type to join a club, swear to an oath, etc.

I:
-a fiscal conservative
-social moderate
-for the right to own a gun
-hates racism
-support legal immigration
-pro-life
-want government to mostly stay out of my life