Political Leanings...

[Michelle.]

This could be interesting.

[tekla]

For the most part I'd say I'm liberal to left.  However most of my fiscal views tend to old line Republican, what once upon a time were called East Coast Republicans before the right wing drove them all out of the party.

[Mister]

social liberal/fiscal conservative, no doubt.

[Britney_413]

I said social liberal/fiscal conservative. I am socially liberal in the sense that I believe that adults should be able to do whatever it is that they please without the government interfering and as long as nobody is being harmed. If some type of regulation on certain things is necessary (i.e. drugs) then fine. So I'm liberal there in that I don't believe that the "old culture" should result in government control over current behaviors and lifestyles. It is not the government's business how I dress, what I read, what I smoke, who I socialize with, the creed I follow, or how I spend my time.

As to fiscal, enough of these damn government programs! I believe in equal opportunity and the government should work hard to make sure that everyone who does try to get ahead at least gets equal opportunity. Aside from temporary assistance for people between jobs or in tight fixes or permanent assistance for people so totally disabled that they will never be able to provide for themselves, keep the government out of it. I'm sick of people sitting around and asking for handouts. We need a system of fair standards where people who want an education can get it and those who want a job can find one but what we don't need is people by the millions just lining up for government giveaways who have no intention of ever improving any aspect of their lives.

[DarkLady]

social liberal/fiscal liberal
Post Merge: May 27, 2009, 03:25:52 AM
We must understand that in current atmosphere liberal is word that is understood very negatively. So many caanot admit that they are ''two times'' liberals.

[lisagurl]

I do not care for society either liberal or conservative. Neither one is human.

[NicholeW.]

I have to admit that in most areas I'd be seen as being a "raging liberal." Yet, not nearly in all. I have a huge problem tying myself to a label of any sort that seems to demand I take a particular position and maintain that through hell and high-water.

Ideologues are morons in my opinion, and they usually manage to prove that rather quickly when they begin to write or talk.

The one unchanging thing in human lives is that things change, as do the humans.

So, you're not likely to see me take a label willingly that will mean somewhere along the line I've given up my responsibility to
have a heart, be compassionate and reasonable, or am obliged to skewer anyone who violates my "ideological" sense by showing me exceptions to what I would have considered a "rule." 

Just sayin,' ya know, TS/TG boards are a great place to show the "truth" of that almost daily.

[DarkLady]

I am a fiscal liberal .... logically middle class has to pay less taxes in cases they elect fiscal liberals not conservatives. 

One other person have only voted fiscal liberal. So are people really so scared about ''tax and spend''-liberals.

I agree with social conservatives on gay marriage is not necessery. But with liberals issues as  civil unions, non-discrimination and hate-crimes.
Post Merge: May 27, 2009, 08:45:59 AM
I really think that you cannot separete fiscal and social scale. In western society there is right and left and will be in the future too. This is too theoretical. I do not think that a fiscal conservative can be a social liberal. At least not in society where we currently live.
Post Merge: May 27, 2009, 03:24:56 PM
This speak for itself more than any other thing here!

[brittanyfear]

Too far left to even vote on that poll.  If you read Parecon, by Micheal Albert, that's a pretty close example of my views.

[Mister]

I do not think that a fiscal conservative can be a social liberal. At least not in society where we currently live.

Hmmm.. since that's the way that most of us voted, it sounds like that's probably wrong.

[Lisbeth]

[X] None of the above.

[Michelle.]

Interesting replies, thanks. My first poll, by the way I think ever.

The socially liberal/fiscal conservative response dosen't surprise me. Some of you might want to check out the Libertarian Party. Open acceptance of LBGT community in the Party Platform. Then again some of their "Free Market" policy scares even me and I wouldn't be surprised if I'm the most "right wing" among us when it comes to such policy.

I personally think that alot of the Dem/GOP divide has todo with what people view as more important. A more socially liberal politics or a more fiscally conservative politics.

But Tekla is "right" about the current GOP. Some wack jobs have taken the Grand Old Party hostage in the past dozen to 15 years or so. That the GOP controlled Congress along with "W" started to spend like drunken sailors didn't help either. No offense to drunken sailors.

My motto: Do what ever the heck you pretty much want to do, just don't ask me to pay the tab at the end of the debauchery.

New Hampshire is way to cold for my tastes, but I borrow their State Motto: Live Free or Die.

[DarkLady]

Here all fiscal conservatives are also social conservatives.

Somebody seems to have mission to drive people away from Dems. 

[Michelle.]

Hmmm.. since that's the way that most of us voted, it sounds like that's probably wrong.

Saves me from a long reply.

Goodbye.

Mich'

[Janet_Girl]

social liberal/fiscal conservative.  At one time I was very conservative in both areas.  But as I am out to myself an saw the world as it is I became a lot more liberal.  Fiscally still conservative because over spending by the governments have lead to the problems we are having now.

IMHO,
Janet

[lisagurl]

Then again some of their "Free Market" policy scares even me and I wouldn't be surprised if I'm the most "right wing" among us when it comes to such policy.

Both parties are corporate supporters. It seems humans come second. We as a world population can not support corporations and the consumption life style. It is unfair to labor and promotes increases in population that will out strip resources. Free trade is only possible when the is a level playing field. That means equal wages and benefits for equal work. You also need equal working conditions and environment rules. Other wise it is a matter of who is willing to be a slave under the poorest conditions. The earth cannot possibly support 6.7 billion people living and using resources like the average American.

[tekla]

Well said Lisa.  We - and that's all of us - need to look at issues of sustainability and fairness.  It might be - or it just flat out is - necessary for those of us in the first world to do the hippie deal and "live simply so that others may simply live."  We've been at that point for a long time now. We can not give everyone in the world a 2000 sq foot house and a car and freeway to drive it on.  We can not continue to have huge amount of the population be overweight while others in the world die of malnutrition. And its not like they don't know what's happening.  We've happily beamed them our TV shows and movies for decades now and we wonder when they show up and try to get in illegally.  A few of us have traveled in some of the poorer sections of the world and if you have not been to them you can not even begin to imagine how bad it is.

[DarkLady]

Two previous answers give an answer why I voted ''fiscal liberal''.

[tekla]

But it has nothing to do with giving the State more money, it has everything to do with the little decisions we all make everyday.  Face it, most money given to the State is a total waste.

[Just Kate]

<=== Broken

Social Conservative, Fiscal Liberal

Only because there was no Social Moderate.