Political affiliation poll.

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I want to see if there is any pattern between spectrum syndromes and political affiliation. I have a suspicion and I want to see if there is anything to it. I am aware that this is in no way scientific. Please only vote if you are at least pretty sure you fall within the spectrum.

Pick the ideology that BEST fits your views.

Hey! How about None of the Above?

ruveyn

Just tick the laissez faire option and quit being difficult.

As in apolitical? I've not met a single self-proclaimed apolitical person who didn't have some sort of opinion on some issue(s). Just because you don't vote or follow politics does not mean you don't have an opinion about what is going on.

Ignore him, he's just being difficult. He's a laissez faire free market anti-government conservative type.

I would be royalist is I was the king
I would be anarcho-capitalist if people were not stupid

Anarcho-communist here. I oppose all formal hierarchy (government, capitalism, organized religion, etc.).

Don't like the political boxes, but I am more proned to live and let live politics. Political affiliation for me depends on the party programs.

I have beliefs that span across the entire political spectrum, but my beliefs are mostly aligned with Liberalism.

Libertarian socialist.

Liberal but on social issues I'm libertarian.

I don't understand "libertarian socialism", can somebody please explain it to me? The two ideologies seem naturally opposed. Libertarianism is based on individualism and opposing government coercion and socialism is based the opposite.

The early socialist ideologies, such as those of Fourier, Saint-Simon, Robert Owen, and Mikhail Bakunin were anarchist in nature, with no government. Marx denigrated these as "utopian" socialists. Basically, libertarian socialists want an economy structured in a roughly socialist manner, but with little to no government. They saw government as part of the problem, along with capitalism.

Correct. A good way to illustrate concretely is with the concept of "cooperative individualism" or a society entirely composed of worker's cooperatives.

Social democrat with a more libertarian streak in terms of vices and social liberalism. IE, I'm against laws that targets victimless crimes of self-inflicted afflictions like drugs or organized prostitution or gambling but I do see the need for government in terms of being a regulatory force in government against corporate abuse and class abuse from the top down (which is what we see a lot of here and a big reason why there's as much crime and violence here). I also see a purpose for the government in terms of universal healthcare and other public services that are otherwise lossy industries that seek to gain money off of people's loss (ie, healthcare, fire, police, infrastructure, etc etc).

Lots of people have contradictory opinions on different issues, though, making them difficult to fit into a coherent political philosophy.