Pro choice
Pro gay rights
Pro taxing the rich
Pro financial/environmental regulation
Pro federal government
Pro democracy
Pro union
Pro legalization of marijuana

Generally:
Pro death penalty
Pro gun rights

Against drug testing welfare recipients
Against Rick Perry

I'll think of more.

 

Sounds like me almost exactly. I'm pretty apprehensive about posting my political views. Because people are quick to judge. I just hope people judge me by my posts, rather than my political views.

 

I generally lean much more left than right (although I used to be a hardcore right winger in my teens).

I am pro life, though (and that means I value all life, including people often overlooked by "pro life" Republicans/conservatives).

 

I'm mostly right.

 

None, I just see what the best options are in life.

 

i believe in sending taxpayer-funded gay marxist feminist stormtroopers around to people's houses to confiscate their guns, bibles and christmas trees.

 

This made me choke on my dinner. :lol

 

I'm very Liberal. I'm pro-choice, pro-legalization of marijuana, pro-union, pro-taxing the rich, and I beleive in equal rights for all people!

 

For- High tax, gay marriage, immigration, liberalism, equal rights, socialized healthcare, government involvement.

Against- Guns, hate speech (make it illegal), capitalism.

 

Against- hate speech (make it illegal).

You do realize that you would also have to watch your tongue. These would not just be in effect for other people.

 

interesting to see all the responses. I consider myself a left wing libertarian.

 

Right, pro-capitalism, fiscal responsibility, keeping drugs illegal.

 

Braille.

 

I'm pretty sure they're all *******s. If communism didn't always go tits up I'd probably go for it.

 

I dont worry about politics, best just leave that stuff to senators and government folks.

 

Yes, let our masters choose what's best for us.
We only need to worry about making money, send taxes and report suspicious activity.

 

The whole left/right thing is far too simplistic, lets take economics for example. Right now I would be left leaning because I've no money, but if somehow I became a millionaire I would cease to be fiscally liberal and would become fiscally conservative. This is because my personal well being is more important to me than political ideals.

I guess you could say I'm libertarian leaning, but far from being idealistic. I'm cynical, a little bit selfish and very apathetic.

 

My political view is that politics is a bunch of BS. However, I do like to comment on politics simply because I find the BS so fascinating.

Yes, I contradict myself very often.

 

I'd probably label myself as an ultra-liberal socalist...

 

Far right economically, as close to laissez-faire capitalism as possible. Anti-corporatism, anti-socialism, anti-welfare state.

Moderate socially--I don't like to use the term "left" when describing my social views, because the left has been rather authoritarian with certain social issues (e.g., censorship, gun rights, "animal rights," etc.)

 

If I were dictator, I would:

Legalize gay marriage.

Legalize prostitution.

Decriminalize the possession (not trafficking) of all drugs and completely legalize some of the more innocuous ones (marijuana, LSD, ecstasy, mushrooms).

Make taxes more progressive and tax the rich much, much more.

Put the end to factory farming and the end to meat eating for the most part.

Make a permit necessary in order to breed cats and dogs. If a person does not have a permit but has a pet which is not neutered, give them a fine of several thousand dollars.

Create a universal health-care system.

Make abortions and birth control completely free. (I'm still toying with idea of a one-child policy.)

Make euthanasia or assisted suicide legal, such as in Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Decrease immigration greatly.

Decrease the military budget by 80% and take all of the troops out of the middle-east.

Make the possession of guns illegal.

Put an end to the death penalty. Let out everyone who is in prison currently for drug possession. Decrease prison sentences for non-violent crimes.

Eliminate the current farm subsidies and create new ones for healthy fruit and vegetables.

Tax gasoline much more and use that money to create new subway systems in the larger cities of the country.

 

Legalize prostitution.

^Yes!

Decriminalize the possession (not trafficking) of all drugs and completely legalize some of the more innocuous ones (marijuana, LSD, ecstasy, mushrooms).

^It's a start, but I'd much prefer full legalization of all drugs for adults, treating them no differently than alcohol.

Put the end to factory farming and the end to meat eating for the most part.

I just ate a dead cow. It was delicious.

Make euthanasia or assisted suicide legal, such as in Switzerland and the Netherlands.

^Agree

Decrease the military budget by 80% and take all of the troops out of the middle-east.

^I didn't have a percentage in mind & I wouldn't limit it to just the Mid East.

Make the possession of guns illegal.

^Couldn't disagree more. Get rid of the BATFE, NFA of 1934, and the Gun Control Act of 1968. Adopt constitutional carry nation wide.

Put an end to the death penalty. Let out everyone who is in prison currently for drug possession. Decrease prison sentences for non-violent crimes.

^agree

Eliminate the current farm subsidies

and create new ones for healthy fruit and vegetables.

^Agree with highlighted portion. Ignore the other part.

Tax gasoline much more and use that money to create new subway systems in the larger cities of the country.

Don't think so.

 

Lean to the left, but not so far that I might fall over.

With most social policy I'm very liberal but with other things, such as economics, I'm more conservative. I think it's pretty foolish to put yourself in a box completely and say "I'm socialist" or "I'm conservative" or what have you. They all have their own benefits. What would be far more useful is to find ways to implement the best parts of each.

 

Firstly, thank you for making this a poll for the whole forum, normally when an American makes a thread on political views the options are things like "Democrat", "Republican" etc and exclude everyone else.

And secondly I went with left. There was a time I would of said far left but I've become less optimitic about the amount of evil humans are reasonably capable of preventing in the world without creating even more evil in the first place. So while I still have a leftist morality of preventing suffering, promoting justice etc I feel that these goals and the methods used to achieve them should be scaled down to moderate levels.

Thirdly, I feel a left-right dichotomy is insufficient to capture the range of political views, because it seems to exclude libertarianism and, perhaps less importantly, fascism. It excludes libertarianism because left-right essentially refers to more social freedom but less economic freedom the further left you go, and more economic freedom but less social freedom the further right you go. Libertarians, in principle, advocate both more social and more economic freedom (in technical terms, though when their policies are applied the results are quite authoritarian, it's a sorta freedom is slavery approach). It also excludes fascism which is basically less of both types of freedom.

 

British National Party all the way.

 

Serious? :|

 

I don't believe in labels and the current state of politics... makes me apathetic... but who can really afford to be. It's a no win situation. With me, it depends on the issue... and there are things that the 'right' and the 'left' proclaim that I am all for... though there are far more things I don't agree with. So I'm stuck somewhere in between... independent, since first registering to vote at 18... leaning left on some things... right on others... both sides piss me off.

 

I could've written this word for word describi ng my stance :yes Registered "Unaffiliated" aka Independent since 18. I think all of them suck.

 

I can see Parliament House from my street.

 

:lol

Congratulations on winning another thread

 

The way I see it, the left stands for everything that is right except legalizing marijuana... which is... wrong.

 

Whoever's in government,I'm against it

 

centrist on everything. At the end of the day, centrists are the ones who have a rationality and a open mind to every political aspect possible.

 

Agreed.

I've noticed that a good number of people seem to have this us-versus-them mentality when it comes to their political views, and are completely intolerant of any opinions which contradict their own. Which to me to seems really counterproductive in the grand scheme of things.

Not that political bigotry is anything new, I just think that if everyone was willing to move their chair in a little closer to the middle of the isle, the world would be a lot better place for us all.

I'm a ****ing dreamer, man!....