What is your political party?

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MCheetah · Accepted Answer

Well, I wouldn't say Liberal is the same thing as Democrat or Conservative is the same thing as Republican because BOTH parties are dogsh*t in the US, along with their equivalents in other countries, and you can very much be liberal-minded or conservative-minded without it getting political (although no one seems to remember how, anymore).

I'm a Centrist/independent and a former Liberal. Although you could say I'm still classically liberal when it comes to stuff like free speech, living your life how you want as long as you aren't hurting others, and being able to joke about anything and everything... But I get along a lot more with conservatives nowadays than I do with the people calling themselves "liberals" nowadays, who tend to be intolerant, smug, closed-minded, and bigoted.

captain_voidwalker · Accepted Answer

I dont vote based on party. I vote based on who wants to preserve my liberties.

nightdrot · Answer

Not sure is you meant party or philosophy. At least in the United States, the parties are Republican, Democrat, etc. to which conservatives and liberals and such belong. However, as your ballot listed the philosophies, I chose to answer in that way and thus voted "conservative."

However, I always, when I see this kind of question, have to put an asterisk over it. My conservatism is not what Americans typically call conservative. Because what Americans call conservative is, historically speaking, not conservatism but is, rather, classical liberalism.

My conservatism, which for convenience I will call classical or Tory conservatism, traces its intellectual pedigree through Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas - and probably most importantly - the 18th century British statesman and political philosopher, Edmund Burke, and also the British Prime Minsiters Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Salisbury.

In an American context, it shows up in the thinking of Alexander Hamilton and then - almost by historical accident, the American Whig Party, and the former Whig turned Republican, Abraham Lincoln. (It is a great historical "what if" as to what the GOP would have looked like had Lincoln lived and the radical Republicans not gained the ascendancy.)

Classical conservatives believe, unlike American conservatives and liberals, that the purpose of government is to answer Aristotle's first questions of politics, "How ought we to live? What kind of a people do we wish to be?"

To which classical conservatives respond that the purpose of government is to nurture civic virtue. To reinforce those habits and customs, legitimized by historical usage over time, that make a harmonious and stable social order possible.

Classical conservatives believe in the free market as a tool, rather than an end in itself. They recognize that it is a powerful wealth creator, efficient to some degree, and a guard against an overweening state. However, they believe, as Burke said, "The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please. We ought see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations."

Consequently, classical conservatives support an ameliorative welfare state. (The welfare state was invented by two conservatives - Disraeli and Bismarck.) The purpose such a welfare state being to reconcile the public to the dynamics of a free market economy by alleviating the negative impact of old age, illness and temporary unemployment.

In this they differ from American liberals who see the welfare state as a lever to engineer social transformation. That is, to restructure society according to some abstract a priori vision. Classical conservatives argue that such a vision is ultimately going to be oversimple and will lead to adverse and unintended consequences.

Tories believe that political philosophy should take as it starting point not human reason, but human nature. That political rights are developed through historical usage, and are not abstract pre-existing. Which is to say that they don't deny that such abstract rights exist. Merely that they are of no practical benefit or use in civil society and law. As Burke put it, "Their abstract perfection is their practical defect."

In all this, then, classical conservatives tend to see less difference between American conservatives and liberals than they see between themselves. Albeit that classical conservatives are more likely to align with their American counterparts insofar as American liberals tend to be more deeply hostile to custom and tradition.

Stupidsigninpage · Answer

They all suck.

Dems want worry too much about race and gun control.

Conservatives worry too much about deformed and unwanted fetuses.

Libertarians want open borders and a weak military.

And I'm definitely not a socialist or a communist.

legalboxers · Answer

29% Con.. lol.. Wonder how many of these 29% tried drinking bleach or shoving a UV light up their ass or injecting themselves with horse meds..

HighlyVolatile · Answer

Probably Libertarian or classic liberal by American standards.

Aerissa_Jade · Answer

Somewhere between a Libertarian and a constitutionalist, small government and government out of our lives, not for large government and government intrusion.

Oigit · Answer

Chaos Undivided. Since politics itself and officials of all parties seem bent on creating as much chaos as they can. Why not form a single party with the main goal of creating chaos?

wankiam · Answer

i believe we need to decentralize government and take away control from corporations... put that in whatever box you like

Dargil · Answer

"Conservative is synonymous with Republican" No, it is not. Republicans have factions. Many are not conservative at all.

TheNewGeneration · Answer

I'm a registered Democrat, but I sometimes vote Republican. Does that make me an Independent?

BeMuse · Answer

I do not belong to a political party. My voter registration reads, No Party Affiliation.

exitseven · Answer

I used ot consider myself an Independent but the demcrats have gone so far off the rails I had to take a side and now I am a Conservative.

In_Trance · Answer

All garbage

SuccessfulHornDog · Answer

I may have some conservative views but I am not Republican. I am closer to Libertarian than anything but no party completely encompasses my beliefs

CloudMassacre · Answer

I’m usually Left and libertarian, but it depends on the policy/issue

Iron_Man · Answer

I’m a right wing conservative how does that make you feel

Anonymous · Answer

None.. I am a classical liberal, which means I stand for individual freedoms.. And none of our parties stand for that.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

I used to like the Democrat party but the political party has been destroyed.

Sabretooth · Answer

I agree with the libs on most things... but, that's as far as it goes.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

I'm a member of the Dead Cat party.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

I'm a Moderate Conservative

ODC2112 · Answer

None of them, I am not American.

XXblack88 · Answer

Conservative

ShadezMcgee · Answer

Libertarian

888theGreat · Answer

A B E are the same.

Anonymous · Answer

What's the owl one?

shortster · Answer

Libertarian

CuriousMufuxka · Answer

Trump 2024.

flirtatiousgirl · Answer

I'm Communist

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