Our Political Leanings -

[Mourning Dove]

I'm curious about our forum members' political leanings. According to this (sadly outdated by 5+ years) OkCupid test I'm Democrat, which I consider accurate enough. I wonder how this test classifies the rest of you? Keep in mind I don't intend this thread to turn into debate whether whose ideologies are the most correct. As always I'm just curious of our community's demographics. I may even make more statistical graphs if I get enough responses/data.

 

[LM 697]

American.

 

[A-Stump]

Proud member of the Deagle Nation, nerds

 

[Judge Holden]

Pigfucker

 

[CatParty]

Completely apolitical. It's all boring and stupid.

 

[The Hunter]

Independent leaning left.

 

[Pikonic]

I'm red in a blue state.

 

[Henry Bemis]

Left-leaning from a family of Chicago Republicans.

 

[Mourning Dove]

I'm red in a blue state.

And I'm blue in a red state! The majority of Kansas hasn't voted democratic since the Kennedy-Nixon election! Hooray for us being fishes out of water (or birds and electric pokemon in our cases)!

 

[bradsternum]

Official Monster Raving Loony Party.
http://www.loonyparty.com

 

[Hyperion]

I belong to the Obama Youth, and our goal is to steal all the bibles.

 

[The Hunter]

I honestly wish I had more incentive to blindly elect Republican officials, but for now, I usually just look up a candidate before voting and base my decision on what they do and if they're honestly better than the other guy.

 

[Mourning Dove]

I like listening to National Public Radio not just because of my political ideologies, but they discuss interesting subjects and play cool world music which is a nice change of pace from the stations that play the current top 40 songs ad naseaum.

 

[Phil Ken Sebben]

The only thing that comes close to labelling me is "center-left"

I'm totally liberal when it comes to social issues and somwhere in the middle when it comes to fiscal issues. Basically, I'm not enough of an anarchist to go Libertarian, I'm not enough of a hippy to go Liberal and I'm not enough of a old-fart to go Republican.

 

[Oglooger]

Right wing Capitalist.
although when it comes to Mexico I'm Authoritarian Nationalist.

though when people ask in real life, I say Libertarian.
also here's a list of people that influenced my views, get something out of that

 

[Pine Tar]

Fiscal Conservative, Social Liberal.

I'd say libertarian, but I do believe that America has a duty to be a world leader and I don't want to be lumped in with the fedora crowd.

 

[Oglooger]

The problem with the fedora libertarians is that most of them are all for little government interference unless it it involves regulating or banning things they don't like.
Imagine Liberals, only more objectivist.

 

[Arkangel]

I'm also Independent leaning left. For my own practical purposes on this board, I generally do not discuss politics on certain issue, not because I don't want to, but because we're not here to divide ourselves over ideologies.

 

[Pine Tar]

The problem with the fedora libertarians is that most of them are all for little government interference unless it it involves regulating or banning things they don't like.
Imagine Liberals, only more objectivist.

So, this guy?

 

[hellbound]

Serious answer, I'm a combination of little-l libertarian and Republican who usually votes for the latter while recognizing that the GOP wants to control us just as much as the Democrats but in different ways and the Libertarian party is too crazy and neckbearded to get elected anytime soon.

I believe in lower taxes, lower spending, and lower (but not no) regulation. I believe that the second amendment is an absolute right, should apply to machine guns and other military hardware, and has nothing to do with hunting or target shooting. I believe that the first amendment is an absolute right and is all about protecting the unpopular, crazy, hateful, or just plain minority beliefs. I don't see why abortion should be illegal while the fetus is not viable, nor why many drugs should be illegal at all. I don't think the government should have any business with marriage whatsoever but as long as it's butting in, it should apply to gay couples and probably even multiple-partner relationships as well as straight monogamous couples. I DON'T believe a gay or polygamous couple, or straight couple for that matter, should be allowed to force a church to recognize or officiate their union, or a business to supply it.

I believe in a strong national defense but less national offense. I believe we should cut defense spending but from procurement, not personnel pay and benefits; when you have a dogshit program like the F-35 costing hundreds of billions before it leaves the ground and running competition after competition to replace the service rifle without ever actually replacing the service rifle you know you're fucking up and need to slap the shit out of some contractors. I believe we need the NSA, the CIA, and the NRO but they've overstepped their bounds by miles and need to be reigned in and not focus on US citizens.

I believe in NASA, the NSF, the CDC, DARPA, and the NIH, but think they fund some wacky shit they probably shouldn't. I believe the NEA and the Department of Education should be gutted. The government has very little business funding arts, and education is better handled on a local level, especially with spending shooting up with fuckall to show for it. Frankly, a lot of things are better handled on a local level.

I believe in short-term unemployment and maybe even a little bit of things like WIC and energy assistance but that we should phase out social security and tell people they need to plan for their own retirement. I believe that the health care system should be reformed but the way it was done with the ACA is the most ass-backwards way it could possibly have been done and fucked things up for years to come.

I believe we should have less focus on fossil fuels but should be allowing further exploration of the reserves we have, using safe and mature technologies like nuclear instead of inefficient ones like solar and wind to cover the current gap, and researching more into biofuels. Algae is very promising. I don't believe we should be subsidizing corn for ethanol, or really almost any crop for any reason. I don't believe anybody should be forced to join a union but that people should be able to join one if they desire, and also that businesses should be able to fire employees for attempting to unionize or strike if they desire. Freedom of association cuts both ways.

Finally, I believe the test posted in the OP is poorly worded and designed, and here are two better ones:

I Side With and The Political Compass