Your political views

[Valkyrie]

You're a Kiwi Valkyrie?

No, I'm a (hanging head) American, but considering relocating.

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Somewhere between moderate liberal and moderate libertarian. The government has a role to play. Business' role is to generate the wealth for society and the government's role is to keep them honest. On social issues, the government has little role to play apart from victim-related crimes.

By modern American standards, that's considered "far left".

I'm a former conservative. As theVOID has posted, I'm driven by pragmatic results more than ideology. When I realized that my logic at the time wasn't based on a sound foundation of facts, I admitted I was wrong and shifted to the left to adopt a new political outlook that was based on the information I had.

Ziggy, you make Australia seem like a nice place to be. And, here I am, thinking of New Zealand.

So, by American standards, I suppose I'm a flaming-pinko-bleeding heart-Marxist-liberal.

That standard is shifting further to the right by the day. Although Bush once represented the right wing, now he's a centrist by Republican standards. Reagan, for all the reverence he receives by the Republican Party, is so far to their left that anyone like him would never get their nomination.

My sentiments, too. To paraphrase Bill Maher, they keep staking out a position further and further to the right, and then insisting that we meet them in the "middle."