Political Poll

[weimar_republic]

political poll, what would you say you are:

 

[G-Man]

That's nice. Only in Israel it's all upside down. The left wing parties that support more intense peace talks, get most of their voices from the reacher Israelies, while the right wingers such as Sharon get most of their voices from the labor workers. It's too confusing.

 

[weimar_republic]

well, its the social-economic balance
I am EXTREMLEY left wing socially, I belive that everyone should get the government to buy them enough food to live on, a house, and a car. but I am EXTREMLEY right wing economically. whats wrong with a monopoly? charge $5000.00 for a bottle of water, if you have enough to live on, what else is there? in israel, the "left wing" is more socially left then economically, and the right is Vice Verse

BTW, these are my views, but not my belifs, if I ever were elected, I would NOT act on thies views

 

[Magnus]

and where is 'anarchist'?

 

[Smash]

Socially liberal and fiscally conservative.I want everybody to have everything.I just don't want to pay for it.

 

[Juize]

The problem in this poll is, that many who are communists or nazis don't use
this terms to themselves, because they hate them. So I doubt does the
communist or nazis get any votes.

 

[Juize]

Prkl. Double post, sorry

 

[Az]

Originally posted by Juize
The problem in this poll is, that many who are communists or nazis don't use
this terms to themselves, because they hate them. So I doubt does the
communist or nazis get any votes.

That is probably the best statement I've seen from you Juize (one of the few good ones).

You are right; especially for the nazi vote.

I think my views are more or less right oriented (conservative) but I don't like political parties generally.

 

[Dell19]

I would vote for slightly left and slightly right. I think this is a good poll because most options seem to have been covered. Juize is right though about the two extremes, only very a small minority would want to be associated with Nazi ideas.

 

[willemvanoranje]

I voted mid left.......I guess our PvdA is middle left........or maybe the one before that....

 

[allan]

You forgot libertarian, which doesn't fit into the traditional "left-right" dichotomy....

Libertarians believe in minimal government (not anarchy, just the least government necessary). They are not right-wing (because they don't support laws against victimless "crimes" or behaviors, nor do they support legal "favors" for corporate interests), nor are they left-wing (because they don't believe in social programs, "political correctness", socialism, or any kind of big government); and "centrist" doesn't describe them either, because they don't generally compromise principles or support the status quo.... It's a small but growing movement here in the US, and I also know there are libertarian parties in most other developed nations (I personally know a Canadian libertarian).

So put that in your poll, and I'll click that one!

 

[G-Man]

In Israel the situation is much more complicated then that. We have the social right-left parties, the economic right-left parties, parties that support religious laws and parties that are against them. Parties that support more strict laws for violence in families and parties that are against it. We have parties to legalize drugs and parties to legalize gambling. We have parties that support giving the Negev (the Israeli desert) residents more rights because they live in hursh conditions, and there are parties that say that people near the northern border should have more rights, as they are under the danger of Hizzbalah rockets. There are parties that support jewish people, parties that support Shi'i muslims, parties that support soony muslims, parties that support christians, parties that support people that come from north africa and asia and parties that support people from europe.
It's a mess.

 

[JellyDonut]

I chose the first option. While among my comrades, we consider ourselves communist/socialist (Marx himself used the terms interchangeably), I hesitate from using these terms when describing my views to others because they tend to think of governments like those in the USSR, China, Vietnam, Cuba etc. rather than a worldwide money-less, leader-less, class-less democratic system. The bourgeois media has lumped the communist/socialist/Marxist and the Leninist/Stalinist/Maoist ideas together, because they're opposed to both. Of course, this is just what the governments wanted in those countries: to be associated with Marx's and Engel's ideas (even though the Communist Manifesto was banned in the Soviet Union). Yeech!

"Oh no, it's the commie Nazis!" -- McBain

 

[stormerne]

Originally posted by allan
You forgot libertarian, which doesn't fit into the traditional "left-right" dichotomy....

Quite right Allan. I was disappointed in the simplistic left-right spectrum of this poll, so I haven't voted either. My American wife is libertarian. There is insufficient support in England as yet for such a movement.

On a seemingly flippant but half-serious note, why isn't there a "I like to pigeon-hole people" category?

 

[Simon Darkshade]

That last one sounds appealing, he says, stroking his moustache whilst sitting back in his Brazilian refuge

 

[CornMaster]

I voted Communism.

As you all should be well aware by now.....

In Canada....I (if I was old enough) voted NDP. However....knowing the NDP would NEVER win in my riding....(like 1000 votes, maybe)....I voted Liberial. Just so Canadian Alliance (PC (Progressive Conservative) for the old-school ) couldn't win. I mean....do we really want another Kim Cambell??? :crazyeyes

But Chretian??? He is da-man!!! And Brian Tobin (Liberal leader in Newfoundland, former Primier. Now Canadian Financial Minister.) was also an excellent Liberal leader! He drove a hard bargan for Hibernia, White Rose, and the Lower Churchill. We don't need another Joey Smallwood deal!!!

Anyway.....since VERY FEW of you KNOW where Newfoundland is...let alone know the politics of the place, and have NO idea what the hell I'm talking about.....I'll shut up now.

 

[Juize]

CM:
since VERY FEW of you KNOW where Newfoundland is---

Even 14-year old kid other side of the world knows, so everybody must.

CM, again:
---let alone know the politics of the place

Oh, yeah, well...

 

[kiwimac]

I guess I could self-identify as Fascist but that does open a WHOLE CAN O WORMS because the term is misunderstood and misused.

To me it means to recognise the rights and RESPONSIBILITIES of folk living within a country, it call us to be both responsible citizens and dutiful ones. Not is any sense of a dread obligation but in the original sense of a weighty responsibility.

And before any one levels charges of racism at me, i am not a racist, never have been nor will be. Benito Mussolini once said an interesting thing, he said

"... Race, it is a feeling and not a reality ... ", even though, in the final analysis, the Italian state did not live up to Mussolini and Gentile's vision of what it could be, that does not IMO invalidate it for all time.

Kiwimac

 

[weimar_republic]

well, this pole is 1 demetion, left or right. there are, in truth, 3 dementions:
Socially left to right {government funded health care}
Economically left to right {abortion or not}
and Government Controals, Sadam Hussien to George Bush {how much power the governmet has}
but a 3 dementions pole would not only be had to see and read with holograms, but would be awful hard to vote on. if I had to vote, I would vote:

commuinist socail {get the government to buy you stuff}
extreme conservative economically {let companies do what they want}
high government controal {like a dictator}

kinda confusing, but hey, I am a confusing person

 

[stormerne]

Originally posted by weimar_republic
well, this pole is 1 demetion, left or right. there are, in truth, 3 dementions:

What a wonderful Freudian Slip!!!
Perhaps suggesting that politicians suffer from dementia?