What is your political party CFCers?

[shadowplay]

I don't have any official party affiliation. I usually vote for moderately conservative candidates.

 

[cardgame]

I'd like to consider myself a moderate, but with the current crop of Repubs, if I could vote it would most likely be a straight party ticket.

 

[Zelig]

I'm a real Republican.

 

[bhsup]

I'm a real Republican.

I'd of had you pegged as a Monarchist, to be quite frank.

 

[amadeus]

Quit stealing my bits, VR!

I'm a real Republican.

When will you get your head out of your arse and recognize that a dynastic head of state is clearly superior to your laughable, untested theory?

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Rhinoceros Party

 

[Arwon]

I, too, support an Australian republic.

 

[NiRv4n4]

Fascist-populist-isolationist, I suppose that puts me in the "independent" category.

 

[Godwynn]

Bündnis 90/die Grünen

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Bündnis 90/die Grünen

So you're a right-winger masquerading as a left-winger with an irrational fear of new technology and all things nuclear

 

[anandus]

I'm a democrat in the sense that I'm pro-democracy although I'm against a referendum, but in favor of chosen local representatives, like mayors.

I'm a semi-republican. I believe a monarchy doesn't have a place in the government, but I don't believe a monarchies should be abolished, I believe a monarchy should have a symbolic role.

Furthermore I'm economically semi-liberal, I'm very much in favor of a free market, but with rules on the road and proper supervision.

I'm socially for equality and meritocracy. Everybody, regardless of social status, has the right to the same educational possibilities, healthcare, etc. and should be able to do anything based on skills.

Ethically I'm liberal, the state has no place in ethical decisions like abortion, euthanasia, etc. Everybody can choose for itself if they do or do not want to do those things depending on their own beliefs. No one has the right to enforce their own ethics on somebody else.

Ecologically I'm green. I'm all for durability and nature preservation. I don't feel economic development and ecological development are mutually exclusive, I believe in 'people, planet, profit'.

Concerning foreign afairs, I'm in favor of intensive international cooperation, in favor of maximizing free trade.

Edit: In Dutch politics I swing between Groenlinks and D66 (both of which I'm a member), in European politics I swing between the European Green Party and European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (although with a slight preference for the former)

 

[Tee Kay]

I voted Independent (read: left-wing internationalist)

 

[Winner]

-10 points for Americacentrism.

+1

The American idea of a political spectrum is laughable. Their political parties are not parties as Europeans understand them. Their left vs. right divide is not a real left vs. right divide as Europeans understand it. Pretty much everything about the American policial system is incomprehensible and weird.

/unbiased Eurocentric analysis

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Anyway, I consider myself a centre-right liberal (in the European sense ). Socially I am very liberal (except when people try to tell me that being liberal means being in favour of multiculturalism, which isn't true), economically I am in the centre, leaning right (which means I am not opposed to some left-wing measures if they're sensible and promote social justice and cohesion, but I generally choose the right-wing liberal solutions to most problems).

For all you Americans here, that means I consider the Republican party clinically insane, and the Democratic party... Well, it's really hard to classify it into a category that would be recognizable here in Europe - that's because your two-party system forces both parties to be broad platforms that bring together many different political trends, which in Europe would have their own political parties.

So, the Democrats include a bit of Social Democracy, Greens, Liberals, Christian Democrats, etc. I'd probably vote for them if I were an American, but only because of the lack of any other sensible choice.

 

[Leifmk]

I'm pretty much a mainstream social democrat in Scandinavian terms, these days, although I regard the entire political process with a nice helping of cynicism. For the last several elections I've held my nose and voted Labour as the least bad alternative (most of the other parties I might have considered giving my vote to have alienated me over at least one or two issues each).

Never been involved in organized party-political activity, although I nearly helped start a local youth wing for the Liberal party (i.e. old-school social liberals) about twenty-odd years ago. (Had an initial meeting with a few friends and everyone agreed it would be neat to get something going, but we never managed to actually schedule a second meeting or make any binding decisions, so that was that.)

 

[NedimNapoleon]

I'd say the Communist Party, since I consider myself a socialist, I think there is a socialist party but its even smaller than the communist.

 

[Me,myself,and,I]

Indie, usually vote republican, often independent, and one democrat.

Fiscal and foreign policy conservative, socially libertarian (i.e. get out of my life).

 

[7ronin]

Republican

Moderate

 

[galdre]

no party affiliation and a progressive

 

[Maimonides]

I registered as a Democrat years ago when I turned 18. I volunteered to register voters as a Deputy County Commissioner. I was a big supporter of Clinton until the Lewinsky embarrassment.

I'm in a political pickle these days because my party is a train wreck on foreign policy & the Republicans are a train wreck on everything else. I can't vote for Obama again & I sure can't vote for a Republican candidate...

I should probably be an independent. I'm on the right on some issues & on the left on others.

I'd call myself a conservative, but my ballot votes are quite varied. IIRC in the 2010 election, I think I voted for as many Democratic candidates as I did Republican.

Actually, someone (IIRC Shane) pegged me as a paleoconservative some time back and I rather liked that designation.

That's great. Now I'm thinking of myself as a paleoliberal. I relate to Truman, Kennedy & Johnson, but few, if any, of today's liberals.

 

[Winner]

I was a big supporter of Clinton until the Lewinsky embarrassment.

You know, it actually made Clinton more popular in some circles here in Europe