What are your political views?

[Secular Elf]

Once I would have called myself moderate to left on the scale.  Definitely somewhat a leftie, though I am right-handed.  I have never been a registered card-carrying member of any political party.  In the past I have voted mostly Democrat, rarely Republican, sometimes Libertarian and Green.

For the most part, these days I would say most politicians are corporate owned dirty ass scumbag traitors that need to be shot, especially if they are fascist theocrats (Dominionists), which basically IS the Republican Party.

My views:
1. Military: we need defense but our government spends way too much on upgrades to tech and wastes much of the budget.  The Military-Industrial Complex is out of control and needs to be reined-in.  
2. Economics: Invest in the middle class, rebuild our infrastructure, and create more jobs, employees should be paid a living wage, heavily fine corporations that outsource, bring manufacturing back here in the states so that Made in the USA is once again more than 90% on our stores' shelves, control inflation.
3. Education: all public schools should be adequately funded, make sure teachers are well trained, well supported, and well paid.  Keep the good teachers and fire the bad ones.  And for crying out loud, teach critical thinking skills (how to think as opposed to what to think).  Science should especially be supported in school, not mythology.  If you want to talk about "Creation" do it in a comparative religion course and keep it there.  College tuition should not render you poor.
4. Religion: I support the First Amendment.  You have the right to worship any deity you want to, just keep it out of my face and don't even try to establish a theocracy or I will rip your goddamn face off.  KEEP THAT WALL STRONG!!
5. Social Issues: I am for universal health care, gay rights, human rights, leave Social Security the hell alone, and people everywhere have got to be free.
6.  The U.S. Constitution: is the foundation of all of the above and underscores all of the above.  Politicians who ignore and deny it should be forced out of office, possibly should be shot for treason.

I think that about sums it up about my political stance.  Now try to fit me in a box.

[Catholic_Lady]

Once I would have called myself moderate to left on the scale.  Definitely somewhat a leftie, though I am right-handed.  I have never been a registered card-carrying member of any political party.  In the past I have voted mostly Democrat, rarely Republican, sometimes Libertarian and Green.

For the most part, these days I would say most politicians are corporate owned dirty ass scumbag traitors that need to be shot, especially if they are fascist theocrats (Dominionists), which basically IS the Republican Party.

My views:
1. Military: we need defense but our government spends way too much on upgrades to tech and wastes much of the budget.  The Military-Industrial Complex is out of control and needs to be reined-in.  
2. Economics: Invest in the middle class, rebuild our infrastructure, and create more jobs, employees should be paid a living wage, heavily fine corporations that outsource, bring manufacturing back here in the states so that Made in the USA is once again more than 90% on our stores' shelves, control inflation.
3. Education: all public schools should be adequately funded, make sure teachers are well trained, well supported, and well paid.  Keep the good teachers and fire the bad ones.  And for crying out loud, teach critical thinking skills (how to think as opposed to what to think).  Science should especially be supported in school, not mythology.  If you want to talk about "Creation" do it in a comparative religion course and keep it there.  College tuition should not render you poor.
4. Religion: I support the First Amendment.  You have the right to worship any deity you want to, just keep it out of my face and don't even try to establish a theocracy or I will rip your goddamn face off.  KEEP THAT WALL STRONG!!
5. Social Issues: I am for universal health care, gay rights, human rights, leave Social Security the hell alone, and people everywhere have got to be free.
6.  The U.S. Constitution: is the foundation of all of the above and underscores all of the above.  Politicians who ignore and deny it should be forced out of office, possibly should be shot for treason.

I think that about sums it up about my political stance.  Now try to fit me in a box.

Sounds very much on the left to me, on all issues.

Thanks for the response!

[Secular Elf]

Sounds very much on the left to me, on all issues.

Thanks for the response!

Damn, I am a leftie. lol Oh, you are welcome.

[tjakey]

Most would consider my political view far, far left. And they are. But I voted "other" because I consider human kind to be, at best, a child-like species that just recently climbed down from the trees. We have yet to find a way to govern ourselves in a fair and equitable manner. We have yet to invent an economic system that works. We haven't outgrown war, violence, hatred, tribalism, or religion. We are trashing our home planet with a reckless disregard that would surely astound any truly intelligent beings that were watching, putting a serious question mark on our claims of intelligence.

It seems much more likely that, on a scale of true intelligence as measured throughout the cosmos, we don't even make the graph. Maybe, in another million years of so, human kind will evolve into something worthwhile, but evidence so far suggests that is a far reach. More likely we will be a tiny burst of almost light that fades quickly into the night sky. Politics? The best we can do mimics that of our ape-like ancestors. Economics? The same. We are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and taking ourselves seriously while doing it. We yell “left” or “right” at each other as if we had any idea what we were talking about, and as if those two terms would have any meaning in a political / economic system that was actually the work of an evolved, intelligent, species.

We will never make much headway unless we grow up enough to realize just how primitive we are, how far there is to go, and how perilous the journey. And it isn't looking like we are that smart.

[The Barefoot Bum]

I'm a democratic communist. I don't like calling myself a Marxist, Leninist, etc. for the same reason physicists don't call themselves Newtonists or Einsteinians, and for the same reason that biologists dislike others calling them Darwinists. Marx was a genius, but not a prophet.

Democracy entails that the people are the state. Communism entails that the workers as a class own the means of production. The rest is commentary.

[Dystopia]

"The people are the State" - That is the wisest phrase I've heard someone saying in the last couple of months - Many people think the State is just the government - It isn't, the State is us, the government, the territory, and power...

[ignoramus]

That's why the yanks "need" the right to bear arms! In case some govt goes rogue! Good concept but way too much collateral damage in the mean time.

[Dystopia]

A govt going rogue doesn't mean the whole State is corrupt - It just means the current government is insane - You can replace it by force or democratic processes.