What's Your Political Point of View?

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Pick the political descriptor that fits you best.

Feudalist	6%	[ 1 ]
Royalist	6%	[ 1 ]
Fascist/Nazi/Falengist/Ba'athist/Wahabian	12%	[ 2 ]
Conservative	12%	[ 2 ]
Libertarian	35%	[ 6 ]
Liberal	18%	[ 3 ]
Social democrat	0%	[ 0 ]
Green/environmentalist, feminist, other New Left	0%	[ 0 ]
Socialist/labor and other Old Left	6%	[ 1 ]
Marxist, Lenonist, Stalinist, Maoist, or other authoritarian radical Left	6%	[ 1 ]
Anarchist (libertarian socialist, anarcho-syndicalist, etc.)	0%	[ 0 ]

Total votes : 17

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31 Oct 2007, 11:40 am

Information is inevitably lost when a person's political attitudes, opinions, theories, and beliefs are condensed to a few simple labels; but these labels do provide a starting point and a general idea of where a person stands. Choose the political descriptor that best fits you.

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31 Oct 2007, 11:51 am

I'll pick socialism, as that seems to be the closest thing to democratic socialism. I personally like a lot of the ideas behind it and, as I mentioned in the 'Political Aspirations' thread, plan to write up a manifesto on what I'd do if I were in a position of power. My ideal system of government would incorporate tweaked democratic socialism in some way. So yes, that's me.

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31 Oct 2007, 1:47 pm

I am driving myself mad, but I think that I was last closest to some variant of libertarian.

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31 Oct 2007, 3:20 pm

Either socialist or Marxist. Maybe Marxist would go a bit far but call me a very convinced socialist.

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31 Oct 2007, 3:25 pm

Awesomelyglorious wrote:

I am driving myself mad, but I think that I was last closest to some variant of libertarian.

I used to believe in total libertarianism. Now I'm ok with almost anything as long as the individual rights of everyone are protected.

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31 Oct 2007, 3:27 pm

Liberal conservatism ftw! Too bad it's not on the poll...

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31 Oct 2007, 3:59 pm

Nikolai wrote:

I used to believe in total libertarianism. Now I'm ok with almost anything as long as the individual rights of everyone are protected.

Bah, depending on how one defines rights, one can make it so that only anarchist libertarianism is acceptable, or that only socialism is acceptable, heck, one might even be able to twist rights so that only fascism is a just state. I dunno, I have gotten into a lot of arguments on rights in the past so this difficulty in defining the protection of rights seems important to me.

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31 Oct 2007, 4:07 pm

All I got to say is liberty of the individual is paramount to everything else.

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31 Oct 2007, 4:13 pm

Reodor_Felgen wrote:

Liberal conservatism ftw! Too bad it's not on the poll...

You would have to define that.

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