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What's your political affiliation?

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Affairs' started by Urethrapapercuts, Feb 25, 2018.

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  1. buffyfan

    buffyfan Moderator Staff Member

    Socially, I am of the mind "If it is two CONSENTING adult humans or more who the F cares". Fiscally, I am an actual Fiscal Conservative. In that you fix spending before you mess with revenues/taxes. And unlike the Neo Fiscal Conservatives, I realize that "If you cut taxes on the rich and companies? OBVIOUSLY they will use that now freed up money to hire, expand and give raises". Because they do not. They either buy back treasury stock, which is in management's interest as they are given it as comp every year. Or? They give upper management bonuses like the did with the first stimulus. Money without strings lead to acquistions and bonuses as the companies were "shored up now". But still refuse to lend.
     
    buffyfan, Apr 21, 2018
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  2. Blu3tooth

    Blu3tooth Trusted Member

    I am a Rightist. I am right, and everyone else is wrong. Especially Rightists.
     
    Blu3tooth, May 19, 2018
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  3. ruipessoa

    ruipessoa Trusted Member

    I'm a Socialist
     
    ruipessoa, May 21, 2018
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  4. Artilon111

    Artilon111 Trusted Member

    I used to be on the fence with politics, but now I definitely sway conservative
     
    Artilon111, May 25, 2018
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  5. iwantmymommy

    iwantmymommy New Member

    Libertarian/individualist. I would be an anarcho-capitalist except that I don't think individualist anarchy is a sustainable social model.

    I think if you're into incest you kind of have to have a little bit of an independent or libertarian streak in you.
     
    iwantmymommy, Jun 21, 2018
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  6. doug6969

    doug6969 Trusted Member

    I have none. even the libertarian party is a joke.
     
    doug6969, Jul 18, 2018
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  7. Neophyte

    Neophyte Administrator Staff Member

    Most people here think I'm a Conservative Republican. But my actual affiliation is Enlightened Self Interest. Enlightened Self Interest is a philosophy where in order for me to do well, I need to make sure everyone around me to does well, the better everyone else does the better off I become.
     
    Neophyte, Jul 18, 2018
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  8. Brutus58

    Brutus58 Trusted.Member

    My philosophy is libertarian, I just don't belong to the party.
     
    Brutus58, Jul 18, 2018
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  9. C Duncan

    C Duncan Account Deleted

    Slightly right of the left of centre :D
     
    C Duncan, Jul 21, 2018
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  10. klausspringfield

    klausspringfield Trusted.Member

    I agree, wholeheartedly. There is really no overlap between libertarian and socialist views. In fact, they are at totally opposite ends of the political spectrum. You can be a liberal and also be somewhat of a libertarian (think Geraldo Rivera). You can be conservative and also be somewhat of a libertarian (think Rand Paul). You can not be a socialist (or communist) and be any form of libertarian (think Bernie Sanders). Libertarianism is about personal freedom, not about committing one's self to undoing perceived social injustices. The reason why libertarianism and socialism are at odds is that socialism prescribes 'acceptable' behaviors toward others, while libertarianism involves the freedoms to do whatever you think is moral in any given situation. I identified (politically) with Republicans (American) for the first 26 years of my life. It wasn't until I found myself drastically differing in opinion to many of the things that Reagan tried to impose that I understood that I wasn't a Republican/conservative. About the only social thing that I agreed with during the Reagan administration was that the national speed limit shouldn't be 55 MPH. As far as I'm concerned, one of the few libertarian accomplishments of that administration was the removal of the 55 MPH law. Like Sammy Hagar, I can't drive 55.
     
    klausspringfield, Jul 24, 2018
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  11. roadgeek

    roadgeek Trusted Member

    Non-Trump Conservative. So I guess that makes me a Free Agent.
     
    roadgeek, Jul 24, 2018
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  12. klausspringfield

    klausspringfield Trusted.Member

    Or it makes you a member of the establishment!
     
    klausspringfield, Aug 2, 2018
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  13. klausspringfield

    klausspringfield Trusted.Member

    There can be no such construct as a libertarian socialist. If you are a socialist of any kind, you can't be a libertarian. Individual freedom is freedom, and any time you give freedom to the state, it isn't free. You can be a Republican libertarian or a Democrat libertarian, or a conservative libertarian or a liberal libertarian, but the one thing you can't possibly be is a socialist libertarian. Let me guess, you're a millennial, and are trying to identify with something that seems reasonable, but not fashionable?
     
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    klausspringfield, Aug 2, 2018
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  14. sockpuppet

    sockpuppet Trusted.Member

    No I am not a millennial. Libertarian socialism is also called anarcho-syndicalism. I believe in ownership and management by the workers, not the state. The state should be very minimal, law and order maintenance, roads and bridges, currency, courts and other minimal functions. Government should stay out of peoples' private lives. What we see as socialism is merely state capitalism. As I said I do not favor the dictatorship of the proletariat, I do not favor vanguard parties, vanguard parties turn into aristocracies. Political correctness of any type disgusts me.
     
    sockpuppet, Aug 2, 2018
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