How liberal/conservative are you?

[Shankara20]

I please. (Don't tell anyone but I don't even know if any of those labels mean anything.)

I selected moderately liberal but looking over my answers compared to everyone else's I'm beginning to look "Very liberal", too.

Glad I didn't mention I'm also pro legalized marijuana and prostitution! Whew.

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[Keroin]

Oh hey!!! I'm pro prostitution, too, but then we'll need more of those NASTY regulations for the prostitution biz! At least on the OSHA level... yeah...

*No sex on a ladder over six feet tall without a hard hat...
*No sex behind the wheel of a moving vehicle... OR while operating a moving vehicle.... THIS INCLUDES PLANES, STEAMROLLERS, CROSS-COUNTRY SKIS, WHEELBARROWS... YOU GET MY DRIFT, YOU KNOW YOU DO, KINKY BASTARDS!!!...
*No sex with farm animals (without their written consent and waivers and THOROUGH check ups with health inspectors)... No one wants to see our barnyard friends running around with the clap! (We'll need to get the Dept. of Aggy guys in on this one!)
*No sex with electrical appliances or devices in a shower, hot tub, steam room, swimming pool, fountain, lake, stream ocean, PUDDLE, again with you KINKY BASTARDS!! NO MIXING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND WATER WHATSOEVER!!!....
*No having sex while blowdrying your hair in the shower... oh wait, isn't that covered by... JUST put it in there for the idiots that want to sue Conair, Calgon, and Paul Mitchell!

I think this puts me a step or two closer to the "somewhat conservative" category. *pumps fist* Getting closer to that middle of the road... I just like the idea of driving on both sides! ;-)

LMAO!

Our equivalent is WCB - Worker's Compensation Board. Good idea but bloated and annoying at times, like all bureaucratic agencies. I remember the night one of their inspectors chewed me out on set because I was on the job site with no shoes on, (I was carrying them because my feet were killing me, after the umpteenth take). I smiled. I said, "When they give me the word, I'm going to put these high heels on and run down this steep, rocky hill as fast as humanly possible. Is that dangerous too?"

 

[SirLicksAalot]

With me, I just think that as long as you are not endangering other people, you should be as free to pursue whatever the hell it is that makes you happy.

This is odd, considering that I am Asian, usually a conservative folk, I grew up this way. And although, I still cringe at the thought or sight of two guys kissing each other, mustache and overbite (ala freddy mercury) and all, I say good for them if that's what makes them happy.

If you feel like smoking pot, run naked along the corridor , engage in prostitution -- hmmm scratch the last one -- it's all good. Live and let live baby.

 

[Keroin]

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Cool!

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Huh, not sure why mine won't show up. Anyway, I'm identical to you Shank except just a smidge higher up, about half a line.

 

[Netzach]

Interesting...all you libertarian death-penalty folks.

I'm agin' it.

I'm for it in a perfect world of justice with forensic beyond doubt, and against it in the craphole we actually exist in. By the time you kill someone you've spent just as much as keeping them in prison anyway, so those kinds of Darwinian arguments don't hold water for me.

This is why I will never consider myself a Libertarian big L. I simply know that you can't trust your neighbors not to be dumbass to that total extent - we live in a very unpredictable world of inconsistencies. Some people NEED nannying, and some companies NEED policing and the government that we put in, Federally, is still an elected body for the most part and not as bloated and incompetent and uncaring as everyone wants to make them out to be. If you want bloated and uncaring, start with the tanking banks.

 

[Netzach]

I'll be pro-gay marriage on the day when a lesbian comes out for "father's rights".

I've seen dickweeds with no business near a child get partial because parity is the new chic thing of the moment.

I've seen mothers get the same who have no business near because they're female.

I'd like to see best interests first and center in everyone's nasty little divorces.

 

[Netzach]

I test out even more libertarian than left on that thing, wow.

 

[graceanne]

Conservatives always poll decent here. They just aren't very politically verbal.

True enough.

 

[FurryFury]

I don't know what I am. Very socially liberal. Somewhat economically conservative. Pro-gay marriage. Pro-poly marriage. Pro-choice. Pro-death penalty. Pro-universal health care. Anti-gun control. I don't believe every fucktard that comes along should be handed a college diploma. I don't think the economy should suffer because some dumbass is scared of cutting down a few trees or whatever.

Yeah, I don't know what that makes me. Apathetic, mostly, because none of the candidates for any offices ever appeal to me.

Wow! I could have written that exact same post!

Kewl!

 

[Yasashii_Kaze]

http://www.politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-3.88&soc=-4.97

Wow. I'm more left than I realized.

 

[Etoile]

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I seem to be a goddamned hippie.

 

[Netzach]

http://politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgraphpng.php?ec=-3.50&soc=-5.85

I seem to be a goddamned hippie.

And I'm a goddamn hippie who likes guns, a hair downwind and center of you guys.

 

[Homburg]

So- pro-choice, pro-gay-marriage, pro-gun, pro-death penalty (under strictly monitored circumstances), anti-drug-prohibition, fiscally conservative as all fuck.

I'm anti death penalty. I just don't consider us responsible enough to do it properly. And I've given up on fiscal conservatism. Other than that, we're in the same area.

What it all adds up to these days is that I'm essentially a political conscientious objector.

That's a good term for it.

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I test out even more libertarian than left on that thing, wow.

I'm not surprised.

 

[YourCaptor]

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and voted

hey I get to vote on something political.

 

[Homburg]

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It should likely surprise noone that knows me to see that I am close to center vis a vis right-left, and lean heavily towards libertarian.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I'm 5 grid squares left of centre and 2 south of the x axis in the "left libertarian" quadrant.

 

[Netzach]

I'm 5 grid squares left of centre and 2 south of the x axis in the "left libertarian" quadrant.

How wha?

Compared to you I'm Jesse Ventura. This thing's broken.

 

[rosco rathbone]

How wha?

Compared to you I'm Jesse Ventura. This thing's broken.

I never really put much faith in those tests. For every single answer I had a caveat "well in some cases..."

 

[Netzach]

I never really put much faith in those tests. For every single answer I had a caveat "well in some cases..."

True. Even the good of the multinationals bit. I'm hardly a "seize the means of production comerade" kind of person.

 

[midwestyankee]

Flawed testing instruments are incapable of producing reliable results.

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[CurlyKat]

Apparently, according to my little political compass grid, my answer of somewhat conservative was right on.

 

[Shankara20]

Flawed testing instruments are incapable of producing reliable results.

not far enough to the left????

 

[DVS]

I voted middle of the road, but it's only because I'm not someone who votes with a certain party just because I'm a member. I like to think I look over the situation and then decide how I'm going to vote. That's middle of the road, but I've been on the conservative side of that middle for most of my days.

So, I'm confused. Maybe I should have picked a more conservative choice, but I don't want to be labeled as such, if some day down the road, my choice changes. Oh, I don't see that happening anytime soon, but I still don't consider myself far right, or even mostly right.

I don't like abortion, but I do feel it's at least partly up to the woman to decide, because it's her body. I'd hope she wouldn't make a choice without thinking over all possibilities with serious thought. But, I'm also torn because I KNOW some women will choose abortion without giving any other option much thought. So, you can see how middle of the road I am. It sometimes sucks to be me.

I like guns and am a proud owner. I like the bang they give me, as well as the feeling of security, if some wacko was to break into my house to take my things. I'm an experienced gun owner and think all gun owners should take a course on proper handling and use of their guns. I know some people shouldn't ever be allowed to own a gun, although how we'd go about weeding those people out without infringing on someone else's rights, I don't know.

I don't take my gun ownership lightly. I won't shoot anybody, if there is an alternative. But, trust me...I've experienced theft and it's not a pretty feeling. You don't want to let me catch you stealing my stuff, if you know what's good for you.

I don't care if gays get married. But, I don't know if I have the right to a vote, because I'm not married, nor am I gay. Those who think marriage is only between a man and a woman usually seem to be married themselves. But, those gays who want to get married, also seem to be in love.

So, is marriage just a word, or is there some real meaning behind it that I don't see? I see the fighting that's going on over this as very sad. I'd hate to be the deciding vote one way or the other, then get married and not be able to change my vote.

I see those who are gay as born that way. I don't think you can change how you are any more than I can change how I am. I don't think we were all put on this earth to be the same, and I wouldn't want us all to be the same.

I don't think anyone is going against God, just because the bible says so. God didn't write that book. God loves everybody, even atheists. I've been a sinner for many years and I believe I'm going to heaven when I die.

Those who try to scare me with talk of heaven and hell are way too serious about it. As long as you live a good, honest life and don't hurt others or condemn them for feeling the way they do, what else is there?

My mother hated burning the American flag as a protest. She'd get VERY upset whenever she saw that on the news. I'm the same way, but I can at least respect their right to protest. I wish they wouldn't burn our flag to make a point, but in this country, they have that right.

I'd expect the same right, if I ever found something to protest about. But, I would never burn our flag just to prove a point. That is the symbol of our freedom. I could never live with myself, knowing those who have fought and died for that freedom.

In some things, I'm conservative. In others, I'm more liberal. I remember a bill of no rights that was written several years back. I think a libertarian wrote this, so maybe I swing more that way. Geez, at my age, you'd think I'd be more set in my ways. Maybe I just think things through too much.

Lewis W. Napper's "Bill of No Rights" kind of speaks for me.

THE BILL OF NO RIGHTS​

Written by Lewis W. Napper​

We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt-ridden, delusional, and other liberal, commie, pinko bedwetters.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that a whole lot of people were confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim that they require a Bill of No Rights.

ARTICLE I
You do not have the right to a new car, big screen color TV or any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.

ARTICLE II
You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone - not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc., but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.

ARTICLE III
You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful, do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.

ARTICLE IV
You do not have the right to free food and housing. Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional couch potatoes.

ARTICLE V
You do not have the right to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in public health care.

ARTICLE VI
You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and kill you.

ARTICLE VII
You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big-screen color TV or a life of leisure.

ARTICLE VIII
You do not have the right to demand that our children risk their lives in foreign wars to soothe your aching conscience. We hate oppressive governments and won't lift a finger to stop you from going to fight if you'd like. However, we do not enjoy parenting the entire world and do not want to spend so much of our time battling each and every little tyrant with a military uniform and a funny hat.

ARTICLE IX
You do not have the right to a job. All of us sure want all of you to have one, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful.

ARTICLE X
You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to pursue happiness, which by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an overabundance of idiotic laws created by those around you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.

Copyright © Lewis W. Napper. All Rights Reserved​

 

[graceanne]

I never really put much faith in those tests. For every single answer I had a caveat "well in some cases..."

That's one of the reasons I didn't take that test. The other being I hate it when they have 'strongly disagree, disagree, agree, strongly agree' as option. What if I just agree? And what if I'm 'eh' about the whole issue? Where's that option?

If they had a agree, disagree, and don't care option I'd be more likely to take those tests.

 

[graceanne]

At the point we have 21 liberal, and 12 conservative. That's almost twice as many liberal as conservative with the largest majority being very liberal (25%).