Voted Green in last election since my state was wrapped
up anyway.
Mostly social moderate, fiscal conservative. Seems to me conservatives are more inclined to deal with the world
clearly, as it is, rather than liberals, who can be kinda
flaky.
However, like Czarcasm, I dont like either party in control
of both Congress and Presidency.
You know, Ike that reminds me of something my dad said to me when I was a Bellamian socialist in my late teens (and therefore at the height of ignorance): “If you’re not a socialist at 20, you have no heart. If you’re still a socialist at 30, you have no brain.”
If you’re talking economically conservative, it’s because we’re not advocating stealing anyone’s prosperity at gunpoint to provide for those who haven’t earned it. We believe in equal opportunity, not equal outcomes, which is a really warm and comforting ideal - kinda like a wubbie.
If you’re talking socially conservative, I don’t know either.
Registered Republican (in order to vote in primaries)
Moderate Libertarian – Not one of the fundamentalist types who rants about the unconstitutionality of the income tax. I’m generally anti-big government, but willing to accept that there are some benefits to government action and funding, like the Louisiana Purchase, or the FDA.
Where pro-lifers have their abortion “litmus test” for candidates, I have my own. I’ve vowed never to vote for anyone who favors and “anti-flag-burning amendment”.
Would be a Republican, but the Prince George’s County Government lost my paperwork, so officially, I’m not allowed to vote. But I still have to pay taxes. Bastards.
Party: No party membership, but sympathise with the Liberal Democrats. Of course, that’s only while they hold the unelectable moderate-left ground and don’t rush to abandon their policies in the race for ‘middle England’ votes.
Philosophy: Social democrat, I suppose. Libertarian in social policy terms, half-and-half laissez faire/welfarist in economics: fan of ‘medium government’, not big or little.