Do you consider yourself a Lefty or Righty

[Richard Cribb]

That has four options.

My mistake, I should have left out the third one.
However, not the least because of recent debates here, you most certainly should have included the fourth, which should have been quite a vote gainer...
And by the way, since the political compass seems to have a sacred status, I suppose I might as well place myself in the rightist camp.

 

[NickyJ]

When I come to a fork in the road, I don't just choose between left, right, center. I go the Yogi route.

 

[Antilogic]

My mistake, I should have left out the third one.
However, not the least because of recent debates here, you most certainly should have included the fourth, which should have been quite a vote gainer...
And by the way, since the political compass seems to have a sacred status, I suppose I might as well place myself in the rightist camp.

I picked the 4th option in your poll. Left and right are too incredibly broad and ill-defined terms.

 

[Glassfan]

Oh, come on with the politics already...

Lets get back to discussing important things like UFO aliens and those CERN knuckleheads creating an Earth-destroying Black Hole!

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

When I come to a fork in the road, I don't just choose between left, right, center. I go the Yogi route.

What would that be? I practise yoga and I guess I am making mistake somewhere

 

[Borachio]

(Jellystone Yogi.)

I go the Booboo route, myself.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

As I am so jaded and disillusioned by the state of the Australian political parties, I'll have to pick righty solely due to the selfish fact that I get to keep more of my pay.

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[IdiotsOpposite]

But authoritarians are left-wing?

That's pretty funny. Tell us more about how the side that wants more freedom for gay people, more freedom for women, and more freedom for atheists are the authoritarian ones.

 

[Borachio]

@ Oruc Yes, why not? Stalin was left-wing and authoritarian.

 

[Quackers]

That's pretty funny. Tell us more about how the side that wants more freedom for gay people, more freedom for women, and more freedom for atheists are the authoritarian ones.

Probably one the most ignorant comments i've read on these forums.

 

[emzie]

Depends what I'm judging myself against. I'm probably slightly right of this forum, centre left in this country and a flaming communist in Texas.

 

[Quackers]

Right of this forum?

Evidence please! Seems quite unlikely..

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[Cutlass]

But authoritarians are left-wing?

Look at who is most likely to be for personal freedoms. In the US, that is not on the right.

 

[JollyRoger]

The left wants to control people, they want to control what they say and how they say it, that's why they support those groups and push the PC crap to undermine free speech. Why if you disagree with the left on any of these agendas it's hate speech, they want to silence the opposition.

Specific example please. No one is silencing you here on the details of this point except you.

 

[Arakhor]

The left wants to control people, they want to control what they say and how they say it, that's why they support those groups and push the PC crap to undermine free speech. Why if you disagree with the left on any of these agendas it's hate speech, they want to silence the opposition.

Anyone can spam meaningless buzz phrases to incite their political allies to "action", but it doesn't mean that they're right.

 

[JollyRoger]

Looks like I found a specific example of these "leftists" wanting to tell people what to say and how to say it:

As Governor Rick Perry vows not to take any of that filthy federal money to expand Medicaid in Texas, state lawmakers may also have to find another $39 million next year to keep the Medicaid Women's Health Program alive.

And Health and Human Services and the Texas Attorney General's Office made it very clear in a letter to the 5th Circuit judges this week that in their WHP, doctors would be banned from even discussing the existence of abortion with their patients.

But the letter, which contains the HHSC's proposed new rules, says something else entirely. Now, abortion "affiliates" wouldn't just banned in the new WHP -- so would "promoting" abortion in any way.

And what exactly does it mean to "promote" abortion? Providing a patient with a referral to a facility that performs abortions, referring to abortion as "within the continuum of family planning services," "furnishing or displaying" information to a patient that "publicizes or advertises an abortion service or provider," or displaying a "brand name" of a healthcare provider that performs abortions.

In other words, if a low-income woman becomes pregnant and decides to seek an abortion, her doctor can't discuss that decision with her or offer her any guidance. These are the same lawmakers who mandated a woman be forced to view and hear a sonogram described to her before an abortion can take place. Their logic then was that women deserve "informed consent."

Except, we guess, when the state decides that women don't need to be informed.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/07/proposed_state-funded_womens_h.php

 

[Oruc]

Nope!

 

[Arakhor]

"He does it too!" is not a mature defence. Even most primary school children quickly grow out of that idea.