Non-judgmental question for you, what is your political affiliation?

Question

Why did you choose it?

DO NOT ATTACK POLITICAL FIGURES OF ANY PARTY OR I WONT EVEN CONSIDER GIVING YOU TEN POINTS...but take the two that you get for answering this question and have fun..

Answer 1

Unaffiliated, because no single party represents my views consistently. Also, parties tend to become ossified into a system which is geared towards maintaining power for one side or the other more than serving the people. I support or oppose individual people, policies, laws, and programs - not parties. Besides, I have an issue with anyone presuming to speak for me; that's *my* job.

Answer 2

I am an independent. I like parts of each party's platform and dislike others. I decide who to vote for by which issues the particular candidate seems to focus on. From 1996-2000, I voted mostly for Dems and a few odd Republicans. I was a college student with no money, and the Dems supported more funding for higher education. I am a huge believer in personal responsibililty, but at the time, I had no resources of my own, and without a degree I'd be working my butt off at a dead end job. I don't feel like I took more than my share from the taxpayer because now I am a lawyer. A month from now I start my new permanent job, and I will have a six-figure salary for the rest of my working life. That's many more tax dollars to Big Brother than I took from him, so in the long run, I think society benefited.

In 2004, I voted just the opposite, mostly Republicans with a few Dems. I'm very socially conservative, so I'm disappointed that the Dems mostly want to focus on things like gay marriage and abortion. In my legal work, I've also seen a lot of social programs abused. I would not totally defund them, but I would like to see things scaled back and limited to people who are doing their best and just not getting anywhere.

I'm probably one of the few people out there who liked both Bush and Clinton (obviously, I had very different reasons for one than for the other). I must say though, of all our presidents, I love Bush the most. I know we've had many other great presidents of both parties, but the other really excellent ones were dead before I was born, so I really can't identify with them.

There is actually a website you might like to check out. It asks you a bunch of questions and tries to pinpoint where you fall ideologically and which party that coincides with. I tried it, and the results seemed accurate. I am a social conservative and an economic moderate. Partywise, that put me somewhere between centrist and Republican. I was a little dot by the Pope's head and Bush's shoulder. (There are several graphs, and one has famous political figures on certain parts of the spectrum).

My best friend is a hardcore Dem. I'm always telling her she is WAY left of center. She didn't believe me. Then she did the questionaire, and it pegged her as a socialist. Her little dot was right near Hillary Clinton and Fidel Castro. I laughed so hard.

Hope you find this fun. The site is: www.okcupid.com/politics

Answer 3

I am a life long democrat.

I am anti-religion, anti-censorship, pro choice, pro death penalty. I support the creation of New Deal type programs like the Civil Conservation Corps to rebuild the crumbling infrastructure of America. I'm against privitization of public utilities and services.

I think the last decent republican was Eisenhower and his warning to the country as he left office about the military/industrial complex was the most important thing any president has ever said. It's too bad the people ignored him.

As for the middle east - I have absolutely nothing against Jews, but I think the creation of the state of Israel was the biggest mistake of the 20th century. I think we should roll back to post WWI and give the lands promised to the Arabs by the British for fighting against the Ottoman empire. The Zionists made a back door deal with the French and English, which screwed the Arabs out of what was originally promised - just because the Zionists weren't happy with the land that was going to be GIVEN to them by the Arab King Faisal.

I believe we should reopen trade with Cuba - if we did Communism would be gone in 5 years.

Answer 4

I am a Republican because I agree with the Republican platform more than the Democrat platform.

I do not dislike all Democrats, I can come up with a list of people from both parties that I do and don't like but im not gonna list anyone here at all.

Long ago I actually wanted to be an Independent (I use to do ticket splitting) but these days there are not that many Democrats that I even wanna vote for (most of the ones I am willing to vote for are Local level ones).

Answer 5

I am liberal. Some have described me as a "flaming" liberal.
Personally, I don't think so - But with the issues that are currently
on the floor, I might seem that way.

I hate the fact that people commit abortion, but I recognize it as
control of one's own body. I wouldn't advocate anyone doing it
but I certainly wouldn't stop it.

Similarly, if I want to kill myself, that is control of my own body.
If I want to hire someone to do it for me or assist me in doing it,
then it still my own body.

I think our government is huge and expensive - but I think the problem
has more to do with the fact that it is incapable of firing people who
aren't good employees. You don't fix this by decreasing tax revenue
or going to war. You fix this by changing the procedure for hiring
and firing people in the government.

By-and-large, there is a reason why most governmental programs exist.
Even the ones that seem silly usually have a back-story that make them
seem quite reasonable - however, inefficiency, corruption and theft
make them bloated and cause people to resent the government.

I would rather have a leader that is moderate and honorable than
one that apparently agrees with me completely - and is slimey.

I have started 2 companies in my life and I do not believe that
the corporate world is being suffocated under too much regulation.
Generally the corporate world hates change and resists it with all
its might (money). The standard example of this is car companies
resisting seat belts because it would decrease profitability.

I do not believe that corporations have rights. People have rights.
I do not believe that corporations should have the right to contribute
to a political cause - unless the shareholders vote on the contribution
and it becomes a matter of public record.

I believe that the primary reason that the Soviet Union fell in the last
century was that it ran out of money - not because of military action on
this side. I believe it ran out of money because Socialism is
inherently flawed due to lack of incentive.

Pure Capitalism, though self sustaining, is inherently flawed because
it is in-humane and environmentally destructive.

We're looking for a happy medium - if I had to guess, we are to the
right of that medium, and countries that are fighting with unions that
require more than 4 weeks of vacation a year, etc. are too far to the
left.

I believe that the average temperature of the planet is increasing
and that humanity is at least somewhat the cause of it. I believe we
should do something to at least decrease our contribution to it though
it is probably too little too late.

I believe that the United States has, as the richest country in the world,
the obligation to provide as much assistance as it can to other countries
that are destitute, diseased ravished, etc - but I do not believe that we
should use our contributions as a means of bullying countries. I believe
we lead by example (for instance, to spread democracy).

I believe that generally, it is better to act above the table. Warrentless
searches, etc, decrease the quality of our freedom far more than they
could ever increase our security. Indeed I believe that we never were
secure and we never will be secure so we're just fighting over degree.

I completely believe that people should be free to practice their
religion as long as it does not effect other people. I am not willing to
fund IN ANY WAY, the propagation of any religion.

I believe it is possible to be "moral" and not religious. In any case,
I get very unhappy when people try to push their religion down my
throat. I get really unhappy when they try to do it and then get all
huffy when I ask for them to be consistant and logical about it.

So ... does that make me a Democrat? Well, certainly for this election
and the ones likely to follow in the next 4 years, it sure does.

Answer 6

Registered Democrat so I can vote in the primaries, but consider myself an independent because I disagree with each party right now since they are each being controlled by the far wings of the party. I have voted for as many D's as I have R's and a few I's.

Answer 7

I unknowingly crossed my family's party line when I first registered to vote - I believed in the Republican party under Reagan and registered as such.

After Bush senior, I lost faith in that party and registered as an independent non-partisan.

The problem with that is that in my state, one MUST choose a party to vote in the primaries. I kept my independent status until a few years ago, when I chose to be registered as a Democrat.

Maybe that makes me "wishy washy", but even Ron Reagan Jr. commented on the current state of the Republican party at his father's funeral.

F.Y.I. I do not vote "party-line," and I guess that makes me "wishy-washy" too. I vote for who I believe will be the best person for the office; if that means crossing some party line, so be it. It may upset whichever party I belong to, but the only reason I belong to A party is that the law of my state requires me to be if I wish to vote in the primaries.

Answer 8

I'm a registered Republican. I generally vote for whose moral values are most closely aligned with mine. I've noticed it's generally Republican, so that's how I registered.

As long as Democrats back things such as abortion and gay marriage, they will never get my vote. I don't care how many perks they offer me from adding governmental programs, they can't buy my moral vote.

I don't vote because of the R or D. If Democrats suddenly became the fiscally and morrally conservative party, I would have to vote as a Democrat.

Answer 9

im a democrat, I can identify more with the party because the democrats are more active in the social agenda. I also believe in the harm principle (Stuart Mill) The difference of opinions is what creates higher thinking beings, and i dont think the goverment should interfere with certain personal choices, and the democrats are more liberal when it comes to choice (abortion., etc)

Answer 10

presently i'm an self sustaining, yet am leaning to re-sign up with the Libertarian social gathering the following quickly, considering that that social gathering identifies with my political opinions better than the different in the equipment. i'm presently a school senior, examining Economics on the Pennsylvania State college, and need to have interplay in a occupation in politics after I leave grad college, which will ensue in Delaware (of all places).