Do you hold political views that will be considered "unpopular" in your country?

Sorta.

I'm anti gun and I live in America lol

 

Politically speaking I'm very left and progressive and proud of it, but there's a lot of right wing populist scum around these days. I'm sure they wanna see my head on a pole.

 

Dunno. America is pretty polarized. Half the country will hate my views and the other half will love them, no matter my viewpoint.

 

I don't get involved in politics or vote and that tends to spark some arguments with some people I know. I don't see the right to vote as an "obligation" of being a good American citizen, I see it as a right I have that I simply have no interest in and no desire to exercise it. Apparently my viewpoint is seen as unpopular.

 

Quebec is pretty much fifty-fifty in most debates (expect things like guns where everybody is pretty much against it).

My stance on independence is the same as half of the population. It is, however, unpopular with my age group since most of people my age are undecided about it.

I just wish people here would care more about politics than they do right now because that MIGHT just prevent thieves like the ones we have now from staying in power -_-

 

I'm a socialist. I...guess that's kinda unpopular in the US?

 

As the saying goes,

Cursed are the pragmatists for they enrage both sides of the debate.

 

The way politics go in the US, I piss off probably half the country with some of my beliefs, both liberal and conservative.

 

New York though, so there's that.

There's a reason politics is an extremely touchy subject. No matter what your views are, someone will think you're a bastard for having them. >.<

 

I guess it depends, really. A lot of my relatives and friends are ultra right Fox News types and they would claim their political beliefs are unpopular and they're the last hold outs for the truth in a world where political correctness has taken over everything. There are a lot more of them than there are of me and yet I think their beliefs fly in the face of every fact out there and are more the product of the "white people are the true oppressed minority" BS they get from Fox, Breitbart and email forwards that they derive all their thought from these days. Whenever someone makes the least mention of something that I always thought was like mainstream political thought-- you know, being against war in general or thinking gun violence is a bad thing-- they seem to react with an almost mindless rage. That the someone who suggests war is wrong and that we need to stop gun violence can get then 10k death and rape threats from people who share their belief system doesn't seem to register with them and their "we're being bullied" mentality.

So I tend not to discuss politics with them. In the meantime, they claim they're the ones being silenced.

What is popular? What is unpopular?

 

Nothing radically unpopular. Generally, at least 30% of the country will support some of my positions (eg. the legislation of voluntary euthanasia, that Julia Gillard was a good PM, that the TPP is desirable), which, combined with political apathy, means it's neither particular popular nor unpopular.

What is more likely is that I'll support something that's either uninteresting to most people (and therefore taking a strong stance on it is unpopular merely because of apathy rather than opposition to my position) or something polarising. For example, republicanism (though that's annoyingly falling in popularity to be less polarising), resisting populist urges regarding the human rights and sentencing of terrorists or other serious criminals which tend to split the country fairly evenly between rights-based approaches and vindictiveness without any legal philosophy, or the rights of refugees who come by boat. A lot of these things are as passionately supported as they are virulently opposed.

I also tend to rock the boat in the left-wing political circles I'm familiar with by accepting market-oriented solutions and urging fiscal restraint where social justice permits (mainly for reasons of generational justice) more than they do and desiring a relatively high level of military spending proportionate to GDP. I'm banking on most of them moderating themselves after a few years, as many passionate progressives do throughout uni. To some of them, it seems like selling out to mainstream opinion, though I think it's more a matter of the same goals with different and perhaps more realistic, cross-factional and bipartisan mechanisms.

 

:/ Let's see. I am...

Pro-abortion, birth control AND sex ed.
Pro-LGBT (duh!)
Anti-SJW, Regressives, Feminism, MGTOW, etc...
On the fence about Syrian refugees
Anti-US going to war again...
Anti-religion though I believe everyone has the right to believe in whatever they want- but if you preach it to me you'll be cussed out. XD
My most radical views are probably that I'm pro-consensual cannibalism, pro-drugs, pro-incest as long as the participants are of age and consenting, and finally... pro a bunch of other things people hate. XD I am sad that in the US our bodies are not regarding as our own private property- I want to sell my body for lots of money! <3 Heh, in the corpse kind of way ofc... >_>

 

Historically yes but that seems to be changing, and it's encouraging to see that.

(I'm a socialist as well).

 

Yeah, I'm not sure what views would be considered "unpopular" in America. :lol: So yeah, I don't know... hm...

 

Socialism in america is rather unpopular.

 

I'm not sure, I guess since normally I fall in the middle.

 

I've mentioned it before, yes. Atheist in the bible belt. I'm lucky nobody has yet burned me for "witchcraft" or the sort, as so many take my stance to heart for some reason.

Such a forlorn place for outlying minds.

 

Well I live in a country where people have started being murdered/lynched/arrested for eating beef and writing in Urdu... I always assumed the people who supported this were simply a vocal minority but recently there has been too much to ignore, or maybe I've just become more aware in the last couple of years. So there's that, I guess. This is a very complex topic though, there are way more if I think about it properly.