LB demographics: Politics
 

So I'm bringing this shit back. Some of Ya'll might remember this from back in the day. I happen to have a slight fascination with demographics and the way that they shape our lives.

This one is based around political preference. Please choose the one that is closest to your own leaning. If you're not sure, you can ask or just google search.

I'm a social anarchist. Therefore I fall partially in line with libertarianism, which, conversely suggests, with the consideration that you presumably mean one of the two bipartisan systems, I then, lean to the left.

bird ass....wait this one is actually good lol...

believe it or not...i'm a politics junkie...all i watch is MSNBC and got XM radio more for The Left than i did for SHADE45. my homepage is the DrudgeReport (go figure)

call me an extreme leftist....

I have it set up so that you can pick multiple ideologies. Thus, you could choose both socialism and anarchism.

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I consider myself a social democrat, and am a huge fan of third way politics.

Whoops, I accidentally checked social democrat. Oh well.

Not a registered Rep or Dem...I'm not undecided or an in-betweener neither. I just refuse to be nigga.

Republicans are greedy & Democrats are needy. I side with the right when it comes to social issues...like being against abortion, gay rights...but I do think religious peoples should be able to practice their laws over here amongst those who put themselves under religious law...like Sharia Law or the Mosaic Law for Hebrew Israelites.

As far as being fiscally conservative or liberal...that depends specifically on each issue.

In a shocker, @Anarchist voted for anarchy.

LOL that had me weak for some reason rofl

How is social anarchy different from libertarian socialism?? I don't know that much about either.

If I'm not mistaken, social anarchy is a subset of libertarianism. But, the largest difference, is the libertarianists belief that private property should be divided as common public ground, and goods. Where as social anarchism is a belief which emphasizes communitarianism and social equality amongst all societal entities. IE: If /I/ have private property, /you/, in turn, have the right to private property yourself. If I, however, do not have said private property, then, under equality, you, also, should not be entitled to such.

Edit: Just re-read your post. Libertarian SOCIALISM is an interchangeable term with social anarchism.

Some of you guys have your terminology all kinds of fucked up.

Constitutionalist Semi-Libertarian Constructionist with Paleoconservative leanings here. AMA

You must mean me. :(

Anarchism and Communism go together.
Libertarianism and Anarchism and Libertariansim and Socialism do not.

If you add Anarchism to Libertariansim then you have Voluntarists. Who are just AnCaps who decided they needed a new, more marketable name for themselves. They're also mostly full of shit.

Is the adaptation of specific views from each aspect that blends them.

>watching MSNBC

You ARE a Progressive leftist aren't you? Might want to branch out to other sources of info though. What you're getting is a deliberately skewed view of everything.

MSNBC has some alright commentary, but their straight news reporting is ass. I now get Al Jezeera, which I consider pretty solid for straight news. Sometimes I'll flip over to Chris Hayes if I'm not watching a game or something in the evening.

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Three questions.

1. Do you believe that the Constitution is fundamentally a grant, or a limit of government power?

2. Being at least somewhat Paleoconservative, what are your thoughts on American national determinism and multiculturalism??

3. What do you think that the role of the United States should be in the world? If non-interventionist, how would you reconcile this stance with some seemingly sucessful interventionist policies in the past?? (I.E. The Suez Crisis or the Korean War)

Al Jezeera isn't really a good news source either. A lot of leftists seem to be of the mind that it's unbiased but in a lot of leftists mind anti-American is where unbiased starts. It isn't. I know you're going to ask what a good unbiased source is. There isn't one. You just kind of have to take in as many sources as you can and try and suss out the facts.

The Constitution clearly states the powers that the federal government has and "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively, or to the people." So basically the Constitution says what the United States government is allowed to do and anything not stated isn't within its power is given to the many states or the people.

I think American culture is an important part of being American. As much as America is a melting pot of all the cultures of the people that have immigrated here there is certainly a distinctly American identity that makes us who we are. I'm absolutely fine with people from other nations coming here and bringing their culture with them and keeping it as long as they also adapt to ours as well.

There are definitely things about the kind of multiculturalism as it exists in Europe that we certainly don't want here. The idea of there being entire sections of cities where people don't go because they exist under Sharia. Our courts certainly shouldn't be looking to law and decisions from other countries in order to make decisions here either.

I think there's a U.N. for intervention when it's absolutely necessary. I don't think we should go to war unless it's absolutely necessary and has a direct effect on os.