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01 Aug 2016, 9:09 pm

Anarchism is my political preference.

I don't feel comfortable identifying with the mainstream left.

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01 Aug 2016, 9:14 pm

I can't help but surmise that the HF rightie aspies don't want anybody else [especially NTs] to think they are akin with their lower-functioning brethren.

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01 Aug 2016, 10:33 pm

auntblabby wrote:

I can't help but surmise that the HF rightie aspies don't want anybody else [especially NTs] to think they are akin with their lower-functioning brethren.

What has this to do with high/low functioning autism?

I can't identify with all the people excited to vote the first female oppressor into office.
I can't identify with all the cop worshipers on NPR.
I can't identify with all the fear mongering and group think within party politics.
I can't identify with people who pacify and immobilize the working class.

One does not need to be a rightie to distance themself from foolishness.

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02 Aug 2016, 12:44 am

I'm pretty left wing. I vote Democrat because socialist parties don't win elections.

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02 Aug 2016, 12:48 am

I learned my lesson about third parties and throwing my vote away or indirectly helping the enemy, back in 1980 when I voted for john Anderson instead of jimmy carter, and Ronnie raygun ended up in the white house where he proceeded to eff up my life.

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02 Aug 2016, 1:10 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

I'm pretty left wing. I vote Democrat because socialist parties don't win elections.

Really, now?

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02 Aug 2016, 1:13 am

^^^^god bless her, she is angelic AFAIC.

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02 Aug 2016, 1:33 am

AJisHere wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

I'm pretty left wing. I vote Democrat because socialist parties don't win elections.

Really, now?

I should have said national elections. And to honest, here on the east side of the state, this is the first time I've heard of the lovely young lady. Unfortunately, here in Spokane and adjacent townships, it's a matter of moderate Democrats fighting with paranoid, right wing idealouges. Wish it wasn't so, but it is.

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02 Aug 2016, 2:27 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

I hear you... but we've had people come in from out of town, out of state, out of the country to help, because just showing that you can get a Socialist into office and then do it again is a huge deal, and sets the stage for future victories everywhere. It's bigger than just Seattle.

So, if you'd ever like to help? Let me know, I'll get you in touch with someone.

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02 Aug 2016, 2:30 am

There seriously need to be more options in this poll.

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02 Aug 2016, 2:38 am

AJisHere wrote:

Kraichgauer wrote:

I have a very good friend in the LGBT rights movement who might be interested in wider political help.
All though to be fair, my friend was disillusioned with his Seattle counterparts in the marriage equality fight, as he said they came across as smug, and had basically written off the east side of the state in not recognizing the Spokane area as a blue island in a red sea. And so he might be distrustful at this point.

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02 Aug 2016, 4:38 am

AJisHere wrote:

I'm a Socialist. So I'm really left-wing.

Bushmaster wrote:

I generally lean toward the conservative right however as of recently I have begun to transform myself into a anarchist who has a distrust of the state.

More of a Trotskyist, myself... but hello, comrade...

Truth be told, I've always wondered how it differs Trotskyist or Maoist from an ordinary communist

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02 Aug 2016, 10:56 am

I'm definitely more right wing, but that's just a default position. I just want small government and personal responsibility. It seems that the further left you go, the more control the government has and the less freedom we have.

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02 Aug 2016, 11:22 am

pawelk1986 wrote:

Truth be told, I've always wondered how it differs Trotskyist or Maoist from an ordinary communist

There's really no "ordinary communist" *per se*. There's many different schools of Marxist thought.

The main difference there is Trotskyism emphasizes the international nature of the struggle, the requirement for a revolution to be "bottom-up", and the importance of democracy.

Maoism shares a lot of these ideas but it puts much less emphasis on internationalism and it focuses on a more agrarian society (think farmers rather than factory workers).

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02 Aug 2016, 1:20 pm

I have more or less given up trying to put my political views in a definitive category.

The notion that *a single* ideology can come even remotely close to providing solutions to the political problems in society just strikes me as infinitely unrealistic.

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02 Aug 2016, 1:25 pm

AJisHere wrote:

I'm a Socialist. So I'm really left-wing.

Bushmaster wrote:

I generally lean toward the conservative right however as of recently I have begun to transform myself into a anarchist who has a distrust of the state.

More of a Trotskyist, myself... but hello, comrade...

hello to you from your neighborhood scholar and Anarchist!

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