Who are you politically?

[Heracles 417]

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -3.25

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.23

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

A leftist authoritarian? Who's the real Marxist now?

[HAL 9000 96]

A leftist authoritarian? Who's the real Marxist now?

Stalinist...

[Heracles 417]

Too many hippies here. The question authority / rebel against the government types.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

A leftist authoritarian? Who's the real Marxist now?

Stalinist...

details, details.

[Heracles 417]

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -6.88

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.49

#### you are nearly off the scale. Explains why we have totally opposite views.

[alienlovechild 75]

LOL...Do a search on Google to see where most American voters' political views show up on that compass. As I've tried to get Gary to acknowledge many times, most Americans are not ideologues. Their views are fluid and flexible and can be influenced by things such as the current state of the economy, during a time of war, etc. People just aren't as one dimensional as some would want to believe...and thank God for that. I have hope in humanity.

Let's just have mob rule by polls and to heck with minority rights or views. You're right most people live their lives without thinking much about politics but they do react to what goes on around them if it directly affects their lives. That's the natural order. Your blind belief in the goodness of humanity led to the French Revolution, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. People backed the excesses without tolerating the opposition. Having elected officials acts as a brake on unbridled acts by the public. Look into the Founding Fathers belief in Consitutional rights, checks and balances, federalism, independent press, etc. I don't trust humanity and that's why we have laws.

You may enjoy Somalia because they no functional government.

[HAL 9000 96]

A leftist authoritarian? Who's the real Marxist now?

Stalinist...

details, details.

Too many of anything types as a 'bad thing' clearly are reminiscent of attitudes that support sending people with opposing viewpoints to Gulags...

[Sister Fracas 5]

Gulags are nice...

or is that goulash?

[Marilyn. 340]

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -2.00

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.21

i have no idea what that means... and honestly. i didn't fully understand some of the questions

[tom&tata 2]

-4, -2.31

I am the opposite of GWB - that alone makes me happy

[one...two...tree 2,762]

LOL...Do a search on Google to see where most American voters' political views show up on that compass. As I've tried to get Gary to acknowledge many times, most Americans are not ideologues. Their views are fluid and flexible and can be influenced by things such as the current state of the economy, during a time of war, etc. People just aren't as one dimensional as some would want to believe...and thank God for that. I have hope in humanity.

Let's just have mob rule by polls and to heck with minority rights or views. You're right most people live their lives without thinking much about politics but they do react to what goes on around them if it directly affects their lives. That's the natural order. Your blind belief in the goodness of humanity led to the French Revolution, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. People backed the excesses without tolerating the opposition. Having elected officials acts as a brake on unbridled acts by the public. Look into the Founding Fathers belief in Consitutional rights, checks and balances, federalism, independent press, etc. I don't trust humanity and that's why we have laws.

You may enjoy Somalia because they no functional government.

LOL...was it mob rule when the Republicans came riding into Washington with their Contract With America in '94 and took control of Congress? You conveniently frame things into extremes and absolutes. American politics swings like a pendulum depending on many outside factors - can you at least acknowledge that much? I'm talking about the American voter's ideological viewpoint collectively. Just look at the issues and break them down...look at the polls. It won't take a revolution nor would it be a threat to our system of government to tackle such issues as healthcare, just as FDR's New Deal didn't turn us into Communists. That's just hysterical fear mongering and like I keep saying, the American voters are ready and open to tackling the issues we are facing right now with whichever policies, Left or Right, that they believe might work. The Republican Party has had 8 years to demonstrate the type of policies they support and they have failed miserably. You can try and slice that how you want, but this November, the voters will be giving a resounding answer to those failed policies.

[alienlovechild 75]

LOL...was it mob rule when the Republicans came riding into Washington with their Contract With America in '94 and took control of Congress?

In America, we called it a mid-term election not a coup d' etat. Did ever take course in government?

You conveniently frame things into extremes and absolutes.

Of course terms like

hysterical fear mongering

are mark of civility and discourse.

It won't take a revolution nor would it be a threat to our system of government to tackle such issues as healthcare, just as FDR's New Deal didn't turn us into Communists.

No, we turned into socialists compared previous federal budgets. Worse, there no way reverse bad programs as they become entitlements.

the American voters are ready and open to tackling the issues we are facing right now with whichever policies, Left or Right, that they believe might work. The Republican Party has had 8 years to demonstrate the type of policies they support and they have failed miserably. You can try and slice that how you want, but this November, the voters will be giving a resounding answer to those failed policies.

Look up "band wagon" appeals for your brand of reasoning. If things are so bad, which dumpster are you keyboarding in? If the American people are always right in the polls then I guess Bush must have been the right man in the White House twice. Let me guess. The American people only grew a brain in 2006 to elect a slate of more moderate Democratic congressmen.

[HAL 9000 96]

Well we do deserve whom we elect now don't we?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

LOL...was it mob rule when the Republicans came riding into Washington with their Contract With America in '94 and took control of Congress?

In America, we called it a mid-term election not a coup d' etat. Did ever take course in government?

I can't respond to a post that's broken down into pieces, but I'll focus on the above part. In '94, the Republican came riding into Washington with a mandate and the root of that mandate was ....guess what...change. They rode in on the brokered relationship with Evangelicals (formerly called Conservative Christian).

From the Contract with America...

Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act "with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right." To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.

Regardless of whether you supported their ideas or not, the point is - they were considered on the outside looking to change the inside of Washington. So it's funny that if we have a Democratic candidate whose central message is change and he wins with the majority of support from Americans, you would label it as mob rule as oppose to a mandate that the Republicans had in '94.

Edited June 11, 2008 by Jabberwocky