What political party are you?

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I'm not a Democrat but that is definatly true. When you bring in John Edwards, the guy that believed that he could talk to dead people, as a "professional" to deliberate on any topic, there is a definate conflict of interests there. I only trust "The Daily Show."

Me too! I love Jon Stewart!

I'm not a member of either of the big two political parties. Democrats and Republicans are about the same as far as the issues its just how they go about it. Democrats will stab you in the back while Republicans will stab you in the front. Or in another way of putting it Republicans are the wolves while Democrats are the wolves in sheeps clothing. Republicans will be blunt about presenting an idea even if its harsh while on the other Democrats will sugar coat the issue.

Take this past election for example. Bush was rather honest in presenting his ideas although most of them sucked. Meanwhile you didnt know what Kerry stood for on anything. For some people voting for Kerry would be like playing a game of Russian Roulette where you didnt know whether the bullet was going to come out and blow your head off. With Bush you pretty much knew that the bullet was going to fire.

I personally rolled the dice and voted for Kerry in this election despite the fact I couldnt stand his wife. If Kerry won I guess I would of prayed and hoped he would do things better than Bush.

Republicans are based too much in the South, West, and other primarily rural areas of the United States. The moral values of these conservative communities are not representative of everyone's moral values. As much as the Christian Right likes to claim to be the movement of morality, it isn't. Secular and religious liberals have morals of their own; they just differ from conservative evangelical Christians on many points. As an independant liberal, I am not bound to any party's ideology; I have merely tended to vote Democratic because I believe the Republicans are leading this country in the wrong direction. My morality is one of personal responsibility (i.e., if it doesn't harm others, it should probably be legal) weighted with a concern for the well-being of everyone (i.e., a functioning social welfare system). I follow liberal Enlightenment principles: a rigorous separation of church and state, the free and open exchange of ideas of all types, peace, equality before the law, and equal opportunity in the pursuit of happiness and equal access to amendities. I believe others have the inherent right to disagree with my opinions and express their own opinions, and I do not find it necessary to call them unpatriotic for that.



Whereas Sen. John Kerry may be too indecisive, President George W. Bush is too brash and unwilling to admit to his policy mistakes. There is also rampant corruption in the Bush administration: cronyism and behind-the-scenes dealing. Republican former House speaker Newt Gingrich was unfaithful to his wife and stepped down because of it. Republican House majority leader Tom DeLay has been instigated in a Texas ethics scandal. I really need not go on; Republicans aren't superior to Democrats in any way.

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I am part of the Sensible Party. We are a small, very poorly known group of aliens who have been hunted and killed over the last 400 thousand years.

I support any party except for the BNP, I hate them. (this is English politics I am talking about)

I am a member of the Australian Labor Party.

I'm a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party.



Their Wiki entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKIP).

I am not a party

I am affiliated with no party

I am happy with no party

I host and attend as few parties as possible.

I understand that there are political parties, and intellectually know some of the reasons for political parties, but I do not GET political parties.

BNP, they cause chaos and hatred amongst the UK (everyone goes apesh** and chants "Racist Nazis!! !! Roooarrr!! !! You haven't done anything yet but you're still Nazis for no reason!") and they're a good laugh. It's fun to watch people's reactions to them, just like me with this comment.

Well, that lets me out.

I'm quite left wing (some days, if I'm feeling nice, then I'd probably qualify as democratic socialist--other days I'm just social democrat or liberal). In Canada (where I live) I plan on voting Green in the next election, unless I feel my vote could be used to help get rid of a Conservative. I'm not particularly anti-Liberal, because I feel they are harmless, but won't make much progress in moving Canada where I want to see it go. The NDP I'm all right with but these days they seem to be drifting to the centre, so I probably won't be voting for them (unless it gets rid of a Conservative). The Greens are in some ways farther to the left than the NDP (although not much), have some very innovative policies, and are the only party which I feel can introduce the radical change that the world needs right now to turn things around. I also really like their leader (now and MP!) Elizabeth May. My main problem with them is that they are rather technophobic in some ways.

In the states I would vote Democrat if I felt it would keep the Republicans at bay. However, I view the Democrats as very nearly conservative--centrist at best. So once again I'd probably go Green. Or perhaps go with Socialist Party USA, which seems to match my views on democratic socialism.

In Britain I'd probably vote Green as they are very nearly socialists plus they care about the environment. However, they seem to be even more technophobic than the Canadian Greens, so maybe I'd go with a socialist party.

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a mixture of david brooks, charles krauthammer, victor davis hanson, rich lowry, Joel kotkin, malcolm gladwell, jonah goldberg, robert kagan, and robert samuelson. whatever type of republican that is

The Greens run Brighton Council at the moment - apparently, they're a bit nuts down there.

AstroGeek: There aren't many socialist parties after Labour and the Greens. The BNP are very socialist in economic terms but they're ethnic nationalists. You might get some very left-wing parties if you lived in areas heavily known for their socialism like Glasgow or Liverpool - like the Socialist Labour Party (as distinct from the Labour Party) but otherwise no.

I wouldn't vote for socialist parties here because of the self-indulgent hissy fits of a lot of their representatives at the moment.

Well, you'd know more about the British political scene than I would. I by the sound of it those are the sorts of socialists I'd tend to avoid because they're a bit too self-righteous and dogmatic. Still, the fact that you have ANY socialist parties puts you above Canada, where we have the increasingly centrist NDP (which is considering removing the word "socialist" from their constitution) and the 2 communist parties (who are kind of weird and in complete denial about what life was like in the Soviet Union--needless to say I do not consider either to be an option). Our Greens are center-left but not socialist. And do you mean Brighton is a bit nuts, or their council/the Greens are a bit nuts?