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So, I'm new here and I came here hoping to gain a deeper understanding of people who think differently than me politically. So far, I haven't quite managed to accomplish that so, I will try a more direct route. Would anyone care to share with me what their core political beliefs are, what party (if any) you believe best represents them and why?
Well I'm 23 and I'm a conservative with a libertarian lean because I have seen in the history of my family what can be done when people are left to fufill their dreams. For example in my family I had both my grandfathers go from dirt poor farmers to a business owner which just sold for a considerable amount and accountant for a big oil company. It is this history that has taught me to do what you can on your own and lean on your community when you need help. It is this reliance on community especially the church not the government. So I would rather have less taxes so I can do more good in my community.
I have difficulty believing people can be defined by one "party". People have kiddingly said I was schizoid and a recent poll I took on political beliefs proved it. There is a current term, unknown to me till my neighbor told me, called "3fers". They actually fall into three parties based on varying degrees of political ideology. I am a 4er. I wander in a desolate aloneness of no strict adherence to any one ideology. :cuckoo::cuckoo:
Would anyone care to share with me what their core political beliefs are, what party (if any) you believe best represents them and why?
This implies to me an enormous faith in human nature.
Yes.
So far, it appears that Ecofarm and YoungConserv would care to do so.
I firmly believe that women have the right to choose their own healthcare solutions and should make their own choices concerning their bodies.
Therefore, I can't be a Republican.
For me it's all about the way I view the world. I'm an Ultra-Conservative bordering on an Authoritarian. Those views were what I grew up with, what I was taught by the people around me, and what I have come to believe in due to my own personal experiences in life. Mostly they are due to my near total distrust of human beings and my belief that very few in this world are truly capable of living a proper and appropriate life on their own.
For me it's all about the way I view the world. I'm an Ultra-Conservative bordering on an Authoritarian. Those views were what I grew up with, what I was taught by the people around me, and what I have come to believe in due to my own personal experiences in life. Mostly they are due to my near total distrust of human beings and my belief that very few in this world are truly capable of living a proper and appropriate life on their own.
I try to use my (and other's) life experiences to apply what I have learned to inform my political views. I don't want to become an ideologue or dedicate myself to a single world view, because in the end I want to be right and advocate for the best possible solution. I try to adhere to freethought (opinions should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism).So, I'm new here and I came here hoping to gain a deeper understanding of people who think differently than me politically. So far, I haven't quite managed to accomplish that so, I will try a more direct route. Would anyone care to share with me what their core political beliefs are, what party (if any) you believe best represents them and why?
And yet you have no respect for authority (you'd sooner kill cops than subject yourself to the justice system - for beating women). Isn't that weird? I'd say it's not so much authoritarian as self-centered BS.
I have no respect for any authority that does not have a moral foundation to it.
Seriously? So how does that play out? You don't trust human beings but you do trust some of them to create and then police a system that forces others to lead what they decide are proper and appropriate lives?
Laws against beating people are founded in morals.
.You have no respect for authority. Stop calling yourself an authoritarian. Your positions are self-centered inhumane BS
... stop pretending such beliefs are founded in anything other than a steaming pile of garbage.
I try to use my (and other's) life experiences to apply what I have learned to inform my political views. I don't want to become an ideologue or dedicate myself to a single world view, because in the end I want to be right and advocate for the best possible solution. I try to adhere to freethought (opinions should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism).
I throw myself into the 'Libertarian - Right' category. I think I currently lie within the realm of classical liberalism which in "current" terms is fiscal responsiblity, small government and social progressiveness. Usually I am voting Republican, but would swing to a conservative Democrat.
Yes, seriously. There are very few people that I have faith or trust in. It is that small group of people, probably less than 3% of the US population and definitely less than 1% of the overall world population who I would like to see in charge. By constantly checking and double-checking to ensure those people maintain a properly moral and decent lifestyle and therefore have the necessary traits to run the government, we would dramatically improve this country's economic status and move this nation towards being a considerably better place to live for those who are willing and capable of living properly. It might not be so much fun for those who can't or won't but well that's their problem.
Yes, seriously. There are very few people that I have faith or trust in. It is that small group of people, probably less than 3% of the US population and definitely less than 1% of the overall world population who I would like to see in charge. By constantly checking and double-checking to ensure those people maintain a properly moral and decent lifestyle and therefore have the necessary traits to run the government, we would dramatically improve this country's economic status and move this nation towards being a considerably better place to live for those who are willing and capable of living properly. It might not be so much fun for those who can't or won't but well that's their problem.
It does reflect short term thinking, lol. At the same time we can't consider 'conservatives' and 'progressives' or 'Republicans' and 'Democrats' to be fully consistent. Each group is a summation of millions of different political viewpoints, which when combined, don't make coherent sense. A fiscally-minded person could want preventive care while a hands-off person could oppose preventive care; both are conservative, it only happens that the hands-off person is louder on this particular issue. In another issue, he could be drowned out by a contending viewpoint that is also considered 'conservative'. We work with a black-white political system in a gray world.Okay, I have a lot of respect for that approach (opinions based on reason and logic....) and since you lean conservative maybe you can help me understand something. I don't mean to offend but it seems to me that many socially conservative policies reflect rather short term thinking fiscally. And since conservatives are all about hanging on to their money it seems to be a contradiction. For instance, it makes sense to me to provide people with a quality education and keep them healthy (preventative care). It seems like it would lesson the odds that they will develop a long-term dependency on government assistance, not to mention less loss in some private industry (ie: healthcare). Educate me.
You realize that can not be sustained don't you?
So what is living a proper life? I mean, how specific do you get?
So if the Republican party became more open to this idea could it change your choice of parties?
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