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11 Jun 2009, 5:21 pm

Fuzzy wrote:
Its all mixed up in the Canada. liberal and conservative swapped places. The liberals used to be about social freedom, independence, low taxes, and the conservatives were about social controls, taking care of the poor, and whatnot.

Australia is the other way round too.



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12 Jun 2009, 6:52 pm

I'd consider myself a social democrat ("capitalism with a human face", strong social welfare state, Olof Palme style politics) with sympathies to Libertarian Socialism. My main problem with Libertarian Socialism is simply that there have been few examples of it, therefore any empirical problems have yet to be tested. In principle, I have few objections to it.



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13 Jun 2009, 8:32 am

I came to the conclusion that I could no longer identify myself with either party. I voted for Kucinich in the primaries and then Nader in the general election. The mainstream democratic party is way too centrist today. But the media won't talk about this.