what is your political ideology and why do you feel this way?

Answer 1

Independent

Because I won't allow talk shows and political machines to use me and throw me away.

Answer 2

Centrist
Because my views make me a con to left wing wackos and a lib to right-wing wackos.

I support what makes sense.
I don't watch tv.
I don't listen to the radio.

I read news on the Internet, and from several different websites. If a bill is coming up and I agree with it, because it makes sense, I take action. If I don't...well I'll also take action, but in the opposite direction.
I don't think about what the government can give me. I think about things in terms of making America better for all individuals. If that is keeping us secure from antibiotic resistant infection by supporting a government subsidized health insurance plan, then I write and ask my senator and congressmen to support it.
If it is a law trying to take my guns away, I write them and ask them to oppose it.
If it is a proposal to funnel our tax dollars to other countries, I write them and ask them to run the people proposing it out of the country.

i pursue truth, and bash a few extremists, when I'm in a good mood.
I tend to side with liberals here on yahoo, because around here they don't seem as silly as many of the fascists that think they are conservative, also because with the exception of gun control issues, i have yet to meet many liberals that will get irrational about my beliefs.

Answer 3

I was born and raised Republican. I was taught the ideas of Teddy Roosevelt. I use to listen to Rush and watch Faux news.

Then one day I realized that the party I supported and the people that they claimed to be were the people that Teddy was opposed to.

Kerry was the 1st Dem I voted for. This time it looks like I will be picking a Dem too.

I like Ron Paul but I think it would be Anarchy for long time!!! Some one that does not believe that Government should not be head of it. We have that now.

Huckabee seems to be a good person. I like the man, but I don't agree with him on allot of issues but I deem him to be a true conservative!

Answer 4

I'm a constitutionalist (little r) republican capitalist.

I'm a constitutionalist because the document recognizes by inalienable rights.

I'm a republican because that is what the Constitution created.

I'm a capitalist because under capitalism no individual, nor any group of individuals, whether they be a minority or a majority, can violate the inalienable rights of any other minority, including the most oppressed minority that has ever existed -- the individual. In the sense, commonly used, that democracy means egalitarianism -- the equality of results (wealth), by an unequal protection (violation) of rights -- capitalism is entirely opposed to it.

A capitalist system is a republic and not a [pure] democracy. It is a system of checks and balances so ordered to protect the rights of the individual, from criminals and most importantly from the democratically elected voices who claim to speak for the "public good." It is a limited "democracy".


My political creed is best exemplified by the words of John Galt in "Atlas Shrugged".

"I swear by my life and by my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

I would be willing to sacrifice my life only in the defense of the defenseless or to protect the Constitution.

The opposite of capitalism is statism. Variants of statism include: socialism, nazism (national socialism), theocracy, [pure] democracy, communism, fascism, tribalism, etc.

In form many of these systems differ, in theory and blood stained practice they all unite upon the same fundamental collectivist ethical principle: man is not an end to himself, but is only a tool to serve the ends of others. Whether those "others" are a dictator's gang, the nation, society, the race, (the) god(s), the majority, the community, the tribe, etc., is irrelevant -- the point is that man in principle must be sacrificed to others.

Only capitalism declares that each and every man, may live his own life for his own happiness, as an end to himself, not by permission of others, but by right, and that government's sole responsibility is to protect those rights, and never violate them, because they are inalienable.


Why am I interested in politics?

"I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics."

Ayn Rand

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

Plato

Answer 5

conservative because liberals eat babies