What are your political views?

Anarchist

 

The Zeitgeist Movement - The Transition - YouTube this.

 

I'm a Socialist and a member of the Labour party, personally I believe that to create a means we most work together, helping to lift people with the lowest standard of living up and giving them opportunities, I reject the theory of austerity as slows down the economy and becomes an excuse for the poorest to be hit, investiture in infrastructure and building jobs is a priority. I would also create public run business to compete with private companies to lower the price of electricity, transport and other necessities. My whole ideology is based on equality, freedom and using production to lift the economic status of everyone not just the few.

 

Then why are you with the Labour Party? Dont you think they're a lost cause? I used to be a member myself until I drew to the conclusion that they were massively authoritarian, imperialist and capitalist.

 

I consider myself a progressive, and I'm a (as far as I know, card-carrying) member of the Democratic Party in the US.

 

Usually, I'll vote Democrat for national offices, some local elections, and school board (we get some pretty staunch Creationists candidates sometimes and I dislike that for our science curriculum) and Republican on some state offices where I feel that they do the best job, like the Railroad Commission. Basically, I'm a split-ticket voter; social liberal/ fiscal conservative/pro-gun/pro-gay/pro-Keynesian when needed.

 

There were several reasons. Firstly, special elections such as this will never achieve the turnout of presidential elections, especially when it comes to liberal/Democratic voting blocs such as young people, African-Americans, Hispanics, etc. Secondly, Walker had a huge money and enthusiasm advantage over the opposing faction. Thirdly, some people (including liberals) just didn't want to set a bad precedent, fearing other states or localities will threaten recalls of their own elected officials for reasons that are unjustified. (I'm not saying the Walker recall wasn't justified. I personally oppose Walker's agenda, but I don't think I have enough knowledge of the circumstances to judge whether it's right or wrong.

 

Labour Party - Only ones in the UK that are fighting for everyone's rights ESPECIALLY STUDENTS!

 

I chose liberal but i am a progressive as well....love bernie sanders and stephanie miller!

 

Australian Labour Party.

 

Not entirely sure which option to pick because I am both a Democrat (US) and a Liberal

 

I took the Political Compass quiz you linked to...

Economic Left/Right: -8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38


I do tend to identify as a left-libertarian, or sometimes as a left-conservative. Anarchism and libertarian socialism would be ideals, but I'm not sure about how realistic such worldviews are.

Pragmatically though, I'm a registered Green and I tend to vote Green, though I think the most important thing is keeping Republicans out of power, so I still would prefer a Democrat to a Republican.


But unfortunately your poll doesn't include a single option that I would really identify with...

 

I will accept the labels of socialist, anarchist and anarcho-communist. And of course, I identity with other political movements within that, such as feminism. In an election, I'd have to vote labour (UK), (unless I happened to be in Brighton), but I don't much like them. They are a disgrace to socialism. I don't describe myself as a liberal, because while many of my views are liberal, I am much more specifically anarchist, and calling myself a liberal suggests I agree with the total lack of action on the part of liberals.

I'm not going to take that test again, but last time I took it I was nice and cosy in the bottom left of the bottom left quadrant.

So yeah, I can't really answer the poll.

 

Another Democrat. The more I see how unlike my Republican friends I am, the more content I am to be a Democrat.

 

To be honest, i really dislike politics, if in the u.s. the democrats and republicans get along, we would be in a better economy

 

I don't believe they are massively imperialist and authoritarian, New Labour did a lot of good things for the UK like improving the NHS and getting rid of section 28, bringing in civil partnerships and bringing in minimum wage I don't see these as imperialist authoritarian ideals. On capitalism, I agree the last Labour government did not regulate the banks enough but the conservatives where arguing for less regulation. I do not believe they are lost cause at all they are the only way to bring about a more fairer society, look at the lib-dems what they have become nothing more than Tory lap boys totally disregarding there ideology and Great Britain, Labour is the only party that can effectively oppose the Tories and improve the economy and improve society however there are areas where Labour are not being bold enough on at the moment such as public ownership I see my job as to work from the inside and hopefully doing my but to iron out the creases.

 

The poll is a touch misleading. I can't vote for the Canada, UK, and Australian Liberals (even though I support the Federal Liberals) because the Aussie Liberals are a centre-right party and the UK Liberals are spineless lap dogs to David Cameron's Tories part of a Conservative coalition, so they can't exactly count now can they? And Canada's Labour party is effectively the New Democratic Party, which is incidentally to the left of both its Australian and UK counterparts.

But I consider myself socially liberal, economically quite centrist, if not centre-left. I'm not an economist, but austerity seems to be rather ineffective when trying to spur on growth.