Conservative?/Liberal?

Bi-ped.

When are you going to say hi dammit!

I don't fit in your poll, Lusatian. In most countries liberal means a harmless form of conservatism - except in mu country, where it has come to mean very conservative.

I am centre-left.

For smeg's sake say hi to Craven!

He's on the phone with me now.

Phew!!! LOL!

I pretty much hate whoever's in the white house. What political affiliation is that?

Social-Democrat, not mentioned in the poll (missing as well Socialists, Communists, Green)

I'm a leftie, lefto, pinko, commie, peace-creep liberal who occasionally drifts towards the middle-muddle on issues.
I really try to listen to both sides of every side,
I look for honesty,
I listen for factual arguments,
I look for love,
I use a complex rule of thumb -democracy - to guide my judgements.

Here's the question I ask on almost every issue:

Which political philosophy benefits the most people
and makes this nation a better place for more of it's citizens?

Conservatives, and their ilk, truly believe that, in the long run, their view fulfills the answer to the question, but in reality, where it counts for me, they are seldom right and, almost always, victims of their own self-importance and callous distain for those not like them.

Meanwhile, I, like so many of my brothers and sisters of the left, believe in the goodness of human beings and the power of love and respect.

If you smiled when you read that last line you are with me.

If you sneered, then put yourself down as a conservative,


but know that we love you too.

This belongs on another thread,
but I don't think you can be a Christian and be a conservative.
One can be a Liberal without being a Christian because both are about the natural order of humankind.

That will do for now.

Joe

I am socially liberal and economically conservative. I believe this and the reverse fit a large segment of the population.

Lol! I believe Lusatian thinks liberal is as bad as it gets - he knoweth not the 'orrors that lurk beyond the bounds of American customary political divisions. Things such as you and I, Walter...

I have to amend my classification of my social liberalism. As a libertarian I oppose the paternalism aspects of the liberal credo. In other words I want a hands off approach by the government to almost everything.

I'M NOT AT ALL BUNNY-LIKE

Me too. I am so happy. I have been feeling quite alone lately!

Socially Liberal

I'm socially liberal on most issues but am less awayed by fear of government than most conservatives and liberals.

Fiscally Conseravtive/Left

This means left in terms of taxation but without the anti-globalism and anti-corporation hotbuttons.

In this category I can score as wildly left or wildly right depending on the questions. This is my most issue-oriented political field.

I consider myself to the left because the economic issues on which I am to the left are really fundamental ones.

But I lack almost all of the anti-corporation leanings and give class populism little play.


If I has to summarize:

left/liberal with conservative leanings in specific areas of economy. Almost no right/totalitarian leanings for social issues.

I'm well-dressed and badly coiffed. What does that make me?

ohhhhhh, you were asking about politics. hmmmm, well, here in Canada I'd probably be considered to be almost precisely in the middle - slightly to the left, and slightly to the right on particular issues. In the U.S., I'd probably be considered frighteningly left-wing.

I am a flip-flopper.

I don't care for "flip" because he is a flop, and if Kerry is TRULY a flip- flopper, he will be flipping when it is necessary, and we will ALL benefit.

I don't think I am too conservative--- in the sense that I understand that word. But I am VERY liberal... as I discern liberalism...
(and I am not sure what I just said).

I'm a conservative.

I would have to move considerably to the right to be considered a liberal but I did just buy a pair of Dockers. I am also inclined to view the continuum from left to right as not being linear, but rather more of a mobius loop.

<gasp>