"How Do You Lean Politically?" Topic

Heinlein once wrote, "Radical and conservative are terms for emotional attitudes and not sociological opinion."
I'd agree in terms of sociological perspective, Symbolic Interactionism seems to offer the most cogent explanation.

BTW in answer to the question posed in the poll: none of your business.

So, no Libertarian choice, huh?

"How Do You Lean Politically?"

Sideways!

Several of us decried the absence of a libertarian option in the discussion. Weasel doesn't quite understand libertarianism; he replied with:

"US Libertarians, by the definitions I posted (which were not purely economic), are right wing.

If your belief in social liberalism is strong enough to support collective action to promote it, then vote "right with some left views"."

Lean, Hell! More like semi-recumbent, if not horizontal!!

Can we have a poll on religion next? I think I can stir the pot more if I use my definitions…

Really?

I am torn between –

1) How is this miniatures War Game related?

2) Go to Hell, it is not of your business!

3) You can't figure it out by my earlier posts??!!

Note:One can be "party independent" and still be viewed as leaning one of four ways on different issues: politicalcompass.org/test

Never mind Libertarians, what about poor old Anarchists?

Never mind Libertarians, what about poor old Anarchists?

Isn't there an inherent contradiction between being an anarchist and selecting from a multiple choice list?

Rational Anarchist and rational socio-psychopath.

I have always had a soft spot for the Monster Raving Loony Party.

I lean to the left but I dress to the right.

I hope this doesn't turn into DH bait.

Where's the Mind your own business" option?

"Isn't there an inherent contradiction between being an anarchist and selecting from a multiple choice list?"

Not really, the main contradication is that the only available social justice options involve state intervention, whereas the libertarians have go their gung-ho free market free-for-all minus state.

At some point anarchists and libertarians go right around the circle and meet in the middle.

In more naive youth, I knew quite a few libertarians, even if some of them were skinheads of the more intelligent variety.

Monarchist!?

Decline to participate in political polls, where does that put me in your spectrum?

There IS a "special snowflake" option ;)

Since everyone got super mad the last time, I'd urge people to just vote without too much pontification.

Or not, as you see fit. As the OFM says, you are not forced to read anything.

I'm center (by european standards,) so by american standards I'm one small step from beeing Mao

I refuse to be labelled or pigeonholed so that anyone can prejudicially reject my thought without hearing a word I say.

I think the current terms are:

Extreme Left
Left
Center Left or Left of Center
Center
Center Right or Right of Center
Right
Extreme Right

I think that's the current scale that is in use today.

Silly Party

YouTube link

Gee, does anyone want to quess which way I lean?

Depends if you have your walker or not Mithmee.

I am pleasantly surprised at the balance.

I am pleasantly surprised at the balance.

I am pleasantly surprised there was no animosity in the comments.

Don't tell me TMP is hitting new heights of maturity?
(&, because of this, can I hear the sounds of gnashing chompers from a distant forum?)

Political beliefs tend to follow a normal curve when there is not a large selection effect in the population you draw a sample from. And while this is not a random sample, its large enough and from a population in which political beliefs should be randomly distributed (in that war-gaming does not necessitate certain political beliefs as a precondition)to show the normal distribution. At least for this question and using these categories.

I am shocked to find that there are any leftist on TMP !!!!!

I tend to lean towards whichever hand is holding my cane. However, my dark political secret is that I used to vote for Gus Hall and Angela Davis when they were the American Communist Party presidential ticket, just because.

LT

Interesting that "none of your business" isn't there as an option despite being raised in the pre-poll discussion

Centre right, i.e. conservative but there are a number of social policies that I agree with (universal health care, etc)

The only disagreement is the term extreme right wing. Leftists from my high school social studies classes to many today use the term incorrectly.

I am a conservative hawkish small government Socialist, you figure out what that means…..

Libertarian. So I put extreme right wing but that is not accurate.

I am a rational pragmatist who tries to avoid donning the blinkers of ideology and isms as much as humanly possible. Equilibrium and a dynamic and creative neutralization of disproportionate concentrations of power are the things I hope for.
Thus, I am a humanitarian-libertarian who recognizes the need for a slightly socialist state but is highly suspicious of that state's actions and tendency to accumulate power. Proactive disassembly of parts of the state (or other concentrations of power in society) concurrent with creative augmentation of the state, in equilibrium. All to solve societal problems in the best way possible.

somewhere to the right of Darth Vader