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Post by jupiter on May 26, 2008 17:46:28 GMT -5
Nobody is ever 100% one thing, but we're all mostly something. Lets see how the forum breaks down, and talk about politics in a more general way.
I'll go first: I'm a conservative. Generally speaking, I want the government out of my face. I think that the government exists to help the people, and should act like it. That means low taxes is goal #1, and good services is goal #2. Some things (like police, firefighters, education, etc) are best left to the government because they are an investment in your society. Aside from protecting/investing in the people the government should stay out of the way.
If you pick Other, please explain and if you pick Rhinoceros please tell us your favorite promise of theirs.
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Post by xasaintx on May 26, 2008 17:50:24 GMT -5
I picked other.
I feel that governments are too corrupt to rule the people and that the people are too stupid to rule themselves.
Chris
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Post by runny on May 26, 2008 17:53:12 GMT -5
Im kinda conservative. but Im not really into politics so yeah
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Post by Atheo on May 26, 2008 19:02:48 GMT -5
I put libertarian, but I'm also a Socialist. It is not only the government's responsibility to allow us our individual freedoms, the government must also provide for the needy among us and maintain the basic standard of living necessary to human beings. I also have communist leanings, but there are a couple tenets of communism I disagree with. One is the necessity of a revolution in a political system to bring about Communism. As a Socialist Canadian party campaigning during the Depression (I forget the name of the party) said to distinguish themselves form the Communist party, I'll go for 'ballots, not bullets'. Political change must be brought about democratically.
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Post by mountair on May 26, 2008 19:22:10 GMT -5
Centre is like moderate, correct?
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Post by jupiter on May 27, 2008 2:50:52 GMT -5
Centre is like moderate, correct? A bit, it depends. In Canada I would likely run as a conservative, but in the US they might think I'm too liberal for the Democrats. In this poll we're -hopefully- forgetting about those kinds of differences. I'm not sure where you're from, but straddling the line between conservative and liberal is called "centre" to me. If its "moderate" to you; than tomato potato, we're on the same page.
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Post by clareabel on May 27, 2008 4:33:49 GMT -5
I went for other. In theory, I'm a communist. But that's been shown not to work in practice, because humans are simply too desperate for more. So I'd be more inclined to be green.
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Post by Kerrick on May 27, 2008 9:46:56 GMT -5
Conservative
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Post by crestfa11en on May 27, 2008 10:46:55 GMT -5
Too liberal for democrats? I didn't know there was such a thing.
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Post by mountair on May 27, 2008 14:25:21 GMT -5
I'm not sure where you're from, but straddling the line between conservative and liberal is called "centre" to me. If its "moderate" to you; than tomato potato, we're on the same page. Okay, good. I've heard the term Centralist before so that's what I thought.
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Post by Azrael on May 27, 2008 14:58:06 GMT -5
I'm a Libertarian, but
Don't you think that this question would have been more appropriately phrased as
WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
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Post by nofarttoofar on May 27, 2008 15:14:44 GMT -5
ITS MY CHOIIIIICEEE???
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Post by clareabel on May 27, 2008 15:23:45 GMT -5
I'm a Libertarian, but Don't you think that this question would have been more appropriately phrased as WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?Exactly what I thought ever since I first saw this...
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Post by augustwinterman on May 27, 2008 15:48:22 GMT -5
I put "Centre" since I consider myself a "moderate"
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Post by Scott on May 27, 2008 18:31:27 GMT -5
According to one of those political quiz things, I'm a slighty-libertarian centrist...meaning on social issues I'm slightly conservative and on economic issues I'm a centrist.
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