Chewbacca Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Just trying to make some more activity :P BTW, I'm Republican :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEG24601 Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 I agree mostly with the Republican philosophies, but feel a nice mix keeps too much forward movement or backward movement from occurring too quickly. Personally, I'm going to attempt to start my own party, with its own moderate views.... and remove the albatross from around our necks... Wellfare, SS, MC/MK, and increase military, nurse, and teacher pay. TEG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psheldrake1 Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Did someone say party? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaska Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Why isn't there an Athiest / Agnostic party? I know many potential members. Also I can't believe you left out the Brain Slug Party! Oh wait, maybe you didn't... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daffydk Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Some republican and some democratic. Therefore I would like to choose as an independent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 I had to check other. Philosophically, I'm an anarchist, but I'm a registered Green, who frequently works with & votes for Democrats. If there was a Satyagraha Party, I would register for it. Until then, I'll just have to struggle to be the change I want to see in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elderbear Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Why isn't there an Athiest / Agnostic party? I know many potential members. I think its journal is The Skeptical Inquirer magazine ... B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonHelton Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Constitution Party, but I'm more Pagan than I am Christian....... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverick Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 trust is a biger issue for me at he moment rather than political involvement. i dont want a liar for a leader so right now politics is irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteShdw Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 trust is a biger issue for me at he moment rather than political involvement. i dont want a liar for a leader so right now politics is irrelevant. I think the word 'irrelevant' is probably not accurate. It's extremely relevant since it affects a lot of people around the world each day. However, I would agree that it's all a bunch of bull... politics is all about 'buying' votes, which means nothing ever gets done because no politician is willing to upset too many voters. Thus, we never know the REAL motivations behind policy, and we never get REAL reform, it's all hanky-panky among the elites. I personally, am a registered Democrat, but I'm really a fence walker. As a student, I've learned a lot about economics and trade theory, so I'm a big free trader (i.e. Republican?), but I also understand that the market has big failures that need some intervention (ie Democrat?). On moral issues, I have to say that I tend to agree with the Republican view that we have each should be true to our moral values. But, I also think that Republicans tend to be poor Christians, in the sense that I don't like their attitude of "every man for himself" (anti-Welfare). I believe that we have a moral obligation to assist those in need, so I'm more for social welfare programs (though the implementation of which can be debated). I find it best not to associate with a 'party' (since they simply always say the other party is bad, regardless of their past stances on issues), but with your own personal feelings. Last election I voted for a Republican governor in Utah, even though I disagreed with his plan to cut the state bureacracy and state programs. I did, however, vote for democrats for state legislature and most local offices. Call me a Republocrat. (And all this coming from a Political Science student!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRenegade Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 All forms of democracy are a farce and we are only fooled into thinking we make a difference..... Think of this comment my boss made to me once about how we run the plant. "This is a democracy, because we (boss and I) choose it to be!" Could that be true in government as well. Don't get me wrong I still vote and would rather be able to change leaders than have Hitler or a King, or something... But I still think we have less freedoms than the greeks originally hoped for when they created democracy.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psheldrake1 Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 I'm a veg Vancouver East Green member for life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedrus Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 I believe the perfect government would be communism.. but in American government with our incredibly stupid people I'd have to go with my left wing counterpart, the Democrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 I'm a dysfunctional rational anarchist. Fuck that! I don't need your fucking lables! Here, have a molotov cocktail! :cyclops: I don't even know what the inside of a voting booth looks like and I've never laid eyes on a ballot in my life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer101 Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 i would say i was a anarchist for 2 months, then switch to democrat then to certain parties. but i think my of my ideals are democratic and most republican. so i guess im a moderate. even though i accidently voted for republican. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c0g Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Chose a party? Just shoot me!!! ----- I personally, am a registered Democrat, but I'm really a fence walker. As a student, I've learned a lot about economics and trade theory, so I'm a big free trader (i.e. Republican?), but I also understand that the market has big failures that need some intervention (ie Democrat?). *snip* (And all this coming from a Political Science student!) Political Science student? I’m a high school dropout myself, but I’m fairly well read, and very well traveled. I've learned more about politics from bums than professors. And from going to different countries to see for myself how things work. Anyway, here's my opinion for what it's worth: "Free Trade" is neither free nor trade. First world empires are built on a foundation of owning the resources of the 3rd world. Gold, Diamonds, timber, labor, oil, food, and above all: Dept. You cannot have free trade with someone when you are using military and economic coercion to control what he or she can produce, and what he or she can get for it. Forced Privatization slaves resources to the market, thus deigning their benefits to the people. That's slavery not trade. Name one single instance of Privatization that benefited either the consumers, or the "public at large" The only way to achieve True Free Pareto Optimal Trade is to remove coercion by leveling the playing field. Debt forgiveness and Nationalization of resources would lead to actual free trading among equitable parties. If “The Market†actually wanted to Trade Freely, I’d be the first to support it. I suppose I'd support an International Nationalization and Land Reform party if there were one. Let farmers farm. 'K, that's my two cents, time to go milk the goats. -=c0g=- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rashind Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 Depends on what I've been pulling out my hair over recently. If corporations, I'm a socialist. If war, I'm an anarchist. If environment or education, green. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eRRoRz Posted February 16, 2005 Share Posted February 16, 2005 None. Why should I be? :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oma Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 Um...none of the Danish parties are listed... I voted for "Social demokratiet" - guess that makes me a democrat. Hey, if DEMOcracy is by the people, is DEOcracy by the god? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nairb22 Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 I come from a long line of democrats, so naturally I registered as a Republican. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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