By US standards, Obama is not as far left as, say, Eisenhower. That's to say that he isn't "left" at all by American standards. It just can be made to appear that way because the "right" has moved very very far further right in recent years.
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By US standards, Obama is not as far left as, say, Eisenhower. That's to say that he isn't "left" at all by American standards. It just can be made to appear that way because the "right" has moved very very far further right in recent years.
Syterion
Voodoo Economist
I was 13 or so. I've changed quite a bit.
If I gave specifics I'd have to tell a life story.
If I gave specifics I'd have to tell a life story.
Yared
That Guy
I've read him being placed as centre-right, at most.
Disgustipated said:
Why are you drifting around? I mean, just because Obama or Bush fail, does that mean that left wing[sic] resp. right wing politics is inherently wrong? How can a party's failings dissuade you from liking their ideological beliefs, when those failings didn't have anything to do with their ideological beliefs but, like you said it, corruption?
Just curious.
Disgustipated
Deity
hmm, when you put it that way, perhaps I haven't drifted around. I just didn't want to be associated with the conservatives after the disaster that was the Iraq war. I'd support the conservatives if they actually supported smaller government, but their spending was out of control in the Bush years. Lowering taxes is good, but not when you increase government spending.
ParadigmShifter
Random Nonsense Generator
I assumed that LucyDuke (who was the first poster to welcome me to CFC!) was obsessed with shoes, shopping and earrings since she was a woman. What a noob!
EDIT: Also, I believe my first post was in a "random thread juxtapositions thread" where I LOL'd at "Why can't I eat off the children's menu?" and "Babe Thread: Princesses".
Generating nonsense for 3 years and counting
Some people still take me seriously I think 
EDIT: Also, I believe my first post was in a "random thread juxtapositions thread" where I LOL'd at "Why can't I eat off the children's menu?" and "Babe Thread: Princesses".
Generating nonsense for 3 years and counting
Some people still take me seriously I think
Yared
That Guy
So you're a Conservative but not a Republican?
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
What, seriously? Jesus, wow, hell of a 180 there, mate!
Yep. My Political Compass score was something like (2,6). It was a classic example of "I know nothing about the real world except what my parents tell me, and believe wholeheartedly their filtering of what I learn in school." Needless to say, things changed as my beliefs and world-view were challenged and subsequently shattered, as college, maturing, and the real world have the tendency to do.
Disgustipated
Deity
just don't believe everything you read here. No offense, but I have a feeling some posters have never set foot outside a classroom. I'm not saying everyone is that way, just some. It takes real world experience to know how the world works, not a classroom setting. I learn more from the junkie on a street corner, than I learn from some liberal English teacher.
Moved quite far to the right and have become more authoritarian though still am more or less anti-authoritarian.
I'm happy without the junkies in my life
.Really, my middle-class friends are just as real as the junkie. I don't assume that everyone is middle-class and male just because I go to a single-sex school with an entrance exam. What would be really deluding myself would be to assume I understood the real world just because I knew a junkie. That would be like Marie-Antoinette assuming she understood dairy farming just because she pretended to be a milkmaid. I don't pretend to know how the whole real world works, because I understand that I don't, although I certainly understand parts of it, and I certainly hope you don't pretend to understand the world thoroughly either merely because you may have a less erudite perspective on it.
To answer the OP, despite having only been here for a few months, I've been quickly developing a dislike of socialism and libertarianism alike. I've been drifting away from strong atheism.
Harvin87
The Youth
I've learned that I prefer to hang around in the real world than spending hours in the internet.
Yared
That Guy
We know 
azzaman333
meh
Screw the real world.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
You realise that the life of a homeless drop-out with a severe psychological condition doesn't really qualify as "the real world" for most people, don't you? "Unpleasant" isn't the same thing as "universally relevant".
Perfection
The Great Head.
I used to be a troublesome poster that spammed a whole lot.
