POLL: As an Atheist, What Do You View as Being the Most Rational Political Outlook?

[DangerousElf]

When I was in the service, I spent three years in Germany (WEST Germany at the time); their form of gov't then was called "Democratic Socialism". There was a fair amount of centralized gov't control (police were regional, but the authority was national; VAT was the same nationally, as was this odd thing that you were allotted when and sometimes where you could vacation, depending on your career and region), that didn't seem to stifle entrepreneurship much at all. I thought it was a little restrictive.

I do think the USA needs to tighten things up some; the freedom/liberty to choose your career field without regard for what's NEEDED seems a bit warped. Not that you NEED to become a bricklayer if your skills are better served by being a bus driver, for example, but it really needs to be a FACTOR. Maybe then the US wouldn't have 70+% of the world's LAWYERS!

I guess what I'd like to see is a bit of social consciousness and social responsibility, the idea that "you don't live in a vacuum", your actions impact others, who have the same rights you do.

It's hard for me to get more defined than that, simply because a huge, wide nation with so many people is hard to peg that specifically.