WHAT ARE YOU? Opinions?

Question

COMMUNIST?
SOCIALIST?
CAPITALIST?
FACIST?

looking at the world is icreasingly a daunting task! All these issues, global warming, terrorist, dictators,endangered animals, oil prices and a pet hate of mine...political correctness.
Is it just me being ignorant.Ii have my views on these topics as any one would but there has to be a line were every one knows we are taking it too far. pehaps I have too much faith in people..i don't know!?!... can any one remember the bliss of pure ignorance when we were younger? when all that existed and mattered was mum and dad and they both loved us?!? i appricate alot of things in the world still. there is a lot of beauty and wonder out there but there still a lot that we need to do. all of us.

P.S to finish off a bit light hearted.. what is going through the heads of those people who buy the greasiest meal ever created and the get a diet coke with it as if that makes it healthier. plz some one must know?

Answer 1

I'm a capitalist
I don't remember ever not being an opinionated know it all
I worked at Burger King when I was sixteen and remember many people ordering double whoppers with cheese and a diet coke to drink. They were all fat. I don't know maybe it's some guilt thing.

Answer 2

I'm a green, and I'm scared. I truly believe that we are near the end of the earth's supply of fossil fuel, and either the lack of this commodity or global warming, or both, will kill billions of people on the planet. I love thinking about when I was a child and only cared about parents and kittens, but I never knew anyone who survived the Irish potato famine, and I imagine the problems this planet will face in the next 30 years will dwarf anything in recorded history.

The answer to the second question is VERY simple!
A grilled cheese sandwich made with about 2 inches off the butter stick tastes SOOO much better than a salad, but a diet coke tastes pretty much like a coke to me. So I take the health points where it doesn't hurt.

Answer 3

Capitalist
The ideology of communism has a noble goal however it's achille's heal is the fact that it is inconsistent with human behavior. People have a tendency to work harder/more productively if doing so results in personal gain. If people can not gain personally, they will tend to do the minimum required level of effort as additional effort is of no direct personal benefit. Greed is not bad if pursuing greed has beneficial effects such as job creation. For example, people create business to enrich themselves, but in so doing, they create new jobs and opportunities for others to also gain personally that did not previously exist. Nothing is as effective or efficient at motivation as the opportunity for personal gain.

This is, in a nut shell why communism only serves to create equal poverty while capitalism tends to flourish - personal motivation. China has in fact recognised thie significance vis a vis their economic reform - ie capitalist policies.

Also, communism in implementation nearly always results in the elimination of freedom and human rights via an oppressive unelected regime. The same is true for fascism but for a different economic model.

Socialism is an "engineered" economy. That is, various parameters (price controls, subsidies) are used to acheive specific economic results. People should be as worried about this "tinkering" as they are with the "tinkering" of genetic engineering - for the same reasons, we don't always know what we're doing. Often times such engineering simply replaces a monetary market with a "lottery" market in that it disturbs resource allocation via supply and demand market adjustments resulting in imbalance between the two. For example, when prices are artificially suppressed, supply is reduced while demand is increased resulting in "lotteries" for goods and services and less goods and services being available had normal market pricing been allowed to control the market.

A common misunderstanding of "market economics" is that "I will be allowed to pay the price I want to pay", and then people say the market is broken when this is not the case. The reality is that the price is what people are _willing_ to pay (a major distinction) such that the number of people willing to pay that price equals the price for which other people are willing to produce/provide. This price point is a "solution" to the intersection of demand vs price and supply vs price.

Long winded and still incomplete, but then this is a complex topic that takes a large number of college courses to cover even remotely adequately. I hope this helps.

It should also be noted that communism/fascism technically are economic and political models while socialism and capitalism are economic models. And democracy is a political model.

Answer 4

Minus the oil prices all of these things have always existed.
I do not like to label myself since there are so many people willing to label me. If I must I am definitely a capitalist, a conservative, & strangely an enviormentalist ( I do have limits - them or me then they are history). Mostly I am a daughter, sister, mother, grandmother & a darn good friend ( that is what I am told).

I have a friend that says the diet coke is so he can eat more guilt free. haha!

Answer 5

I'm a political moderate from the USA so I must be a capitalist! But I'm poor so does that count? I also believe that diet pepsi is the way to go when eating the greasist meal ever-skip diet Coke as it will give you gas. Enjoy!

Answer 6

I am a red herring, but my color does define my politics: I am neither a Republican nor a Communist. I agree that the world seems to be falling apart, but disagree with you on political correctness. It's usually nothing more than politeness, a concept that can make living and working with others who are different much easier. PC is a civilized concept which ELIMINATES or minimizes some divisive issues.

Answer 7

I am bored. I prefer that to belonging to any particular party. I am starting to feel like Oscar Wilde, where politics are concerned. It's just all the same recycled B.S., spouted over and over, with nothing done.

Your question is very good & valid, by the way. My declaration of boredom is no reflection on you or your question.

And that Diet Coke thing is to break up all the grease. :D

Answer 8

Socialist = me - You can get a good paycheck based on what you did do
Communism - Why can my neighbor sleep in all day and get the same amount of money I do?
Capitalism - It's good for some cases, but it gives our government too much control of money
Facist - I don't believe in forcing my ideas down others throats.

Answer 9

I don't remember a time when I was completely innocent.
However, I do agree with you on your other points. Some people take it way too far.

Answer 10

Libertarian!