What Political Persuasion Are You?

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Correct. In computer programming != is the symbol used for "does not equal." Since I don't know how to get the proper does not equal sign on a WP I just went with the computer version.

I'm not sure if I feel comfortable with any ideology anymore. There are extreme flaws in all of them. In Dutch politics, I've found that all parties have done, in a way, the opposite of what they said they said they'd do.

Fiscal conservatives increased our deficit by damaging the economy and reducing tax income under rising unemployment.
Under economic liberals, the economy stumbled on, sometimes falling into recession.
Social democrats caused social constructs of safety to drop away from the people they said they'd protect.
Under conservative coalitions, the crime rate went up rather than down.

I'm currently writing down my beliefs. These are the core points:

- Core European cultures and shared values should always, in Europe, be held superior to any other culture and enforced in any way necessary.
- All education should be completely secular, and states should never base anything on religion.
- The European Union should be given a choice: reform to something actually helping people, or be abolished.
- Instead of austerity measures, we should have economic measures aimed at improving the long-term economic situation of our countries.
- The state should call on everyone's responsibility for each other. Effective social order is enforced from the bottom up, not from the top down.
- Petitions and referendums should be taken more seriously.
- Rights should be respected until they infringe on other people's rights or our dominant culture.
- No public display of foreign nationalism should be tolerated; I've utterly had it with Turkish flags flown all over the place.
- If people behave stupidly or offensively, society should correct them. If that fails, criminal justice should correct them in any way it can.

It is unjust for unjust laws to be enforced. It is unjust for the decrees of tyrants to be enforced.

Think of the Nazi race laws. Was it just for such laws to be enforced?

ruveyn

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for those WPers lacking a character map on their puters, save this in a .doc [rtf] file [or something like that] for future reference.

Several people have stolen my "radical moderate" position, even though I haven't even outlined it.

I am strangely proud.

So you're from dangerously fanatical and extreme middle-of-the-road!?

So you're from the dangerously fanatical and extreme middle-of-the-road!?

I am a solid social democrat. I support policies that strive for effective equality of opportunity, and that requires some equality of starting conditions through equitable schools and elimination of gross imbalances in parental income//neighbourhoods. I support a basic income of C$10K/year, to be mailed out in instalments, support German style labour co-determination statutes, support a financial transactions tax and carbon tax offset by rebates, would replace the income tax with a steeply progressive consumption tax, and generally dislike regressive means of financing government.