What am I? Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Independent?

[Heywood]

Given what I've seen, his view is that republicans are very, very lousy.

I have not witnessed him claiming that the democrats are blameless. Only that they are lesser of the two evils, whereas the Republicans are the greater of the two evils.

Precisely so, and this is rather the point. I'm not a one-issue voter. I have opinions on a wide variety of matters, and I choose the party which most closely aligns with them. Do Democrats vote to do things like start wars and attack other countries? Yeah. Do they occasionally vote as if they were conservatives, caring more about the ledger than whether people starve? Sadly, yeah. It happens a lot more than I would like.

But, the Republicans do it far more often and in far worse proportions. Democrats aren't engaged in an internal struggle to see who is best at wrecking the government. They aren't the ones clamoring for a resumption of the Iraq clusterfuck. They aren't the ones, by and large, governing states in which food and health care are vigorously denied to their people who can't get it on their own. They're not the ones rooting for a maximum of deadly weaponry in the hands of citizens or armed rebellion against the government.

They're the lesser of two evils, and I feel that I do the most good for the most people, with my vote, by casting it for Democratic candidates (as long as they are sufficiently liberal). Even if Republicans had a stance on any single issue, no matter how important to me, that I really liked, it wouldn't be enough to cast a vote condemning other Americans to worse poverty and more violence. I vote for candidates that treat human life, in general, as sacred, not just the undeveloped variety in wombs. That deserves the title 'pro-life' more than you do, with the way you vote.

I think a lot of government programs/laws progressives have pushed have made peoples lives worse or are simply a waste of resources.

I blame minimum wage a being directly responsible for cutting the legs off the economic ladder blacks were using to better themselves after emancipation.

The following graph suggests OSHA has had 0 effect on work place deaths.



If progressives really wanted to help poor people they would just give them money instead of various government programs designed to control them. Progressives are more about controlling people then actually wanting to help them.

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These are my position:
Abortion: I am pro life.

Capital punishment: I am against it.

At least you aren't being blatantly inconsistent. But if your rationale for being pro-life is religious, I'd like to see what part of Scripture (maybe quote the relevant Bible verses?) that you believe explicitly support this.

And if you are against capital punishment for economic reasons (since it actually costs more than imprisonment), then I'd ask why you are not for abortion.

Abortion and capital punishment are both predicated on an ideology that some human beings are worse less than others.....that some human beings have a right to decide when other human beings should die. This is the same ideology the NAZI's used to slaughter the jews and the Americans used to slaughter the Indians. I would suggest that it is the ideology that is responsible for more evil in the world than any other. It is an ideology I will not embrace....but you democrats and republicans are more than happy to embrace it when it suits your desires. Trust me, there are plenty of people I would love to see put to death....but I do not let my emotions rule me(or at least I try not too).

Now regarding your other questions....I have pretty much answered those in other threads and I don't intend this thread to be a debate about specific positions of mine.