Does this political forum lean more to the left or right in your opinion? (Putin, regular)
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It's interesting that 35 people voted that they "lean to the left" and 23 voted that they "lean to the right." Is it possible that there are actually more left-leaning people on this forum? We've just become the silent majority, perhaps?
I'd like to actually know what a "rabid leftist" is anyway. We get called that and socialists, and communists, etc. so often here, but I haven't the foggiest clue what people are basing that on short of it being an empty ad hominen attack.
I post on other boards too, and on the international ones I am consistently accused of being a right wing American.
I didn't see my choice. Lean right, but the board is fairly balanced. There is also another middle ground choice that could have been added to this poll. Lean left, but the board is fairly balanced.
It is a shame though. There are bashers and frauds on both sides. There are posters who only consider their viewpoint sources; progressives only reading dailyk, alternet, and watchin only msnbc as example. Same could be said for some conservs, only watching fox and so on.
It's interesting that 35 people voted that they "lean to the left" and 23 voted that they "lean to the right." Is it possible that there are actually more left-leaning people on this forum? We've just become the silent majority, perhaps?
Seems more so that most of the vocal conservatives haven't voted yet. Give it more time to see if things balance.
I post on other boards too, and on the international ones I am consistently accused of being a right wing American.
Everyone's perception is their own reality.
Lol. Well, by world political standards, American liberals are quite a bit to the right. Which is why I don't get the whole Obama is a rabid liberal claim. Obama is right of center. You'd have to go several orders of magnitude left of Obama to reach European standards of liberal.
Lol. Well, by world political standards, American liberals are quite a bit to the right. Which is why I don't get the whole Obama is a rabid liberal claim. Obama is right of center. You'd have to go several orders of magnitude left of Obama to reach European standards of liberal.
Anyone who doesn't believe in a small, limited, decentralized system of government, consistent with the enumerated powers of the Constitution, and free-market, laissez-faire capitalism, individualism, and the abolition of social welfare programs, is an authoritarian leftist collectivist, no matter what side of the pond you are on.
I am not sure where I fit in on the spectrum.
I don't follow a particular party line based on left / right / liberal / conservative.
It is not a football game to me so I give no allegiance to either "side"
I have seen the corruption and greed as well as the loss of morals worsen in this country for the past 30 years and it only seems to get worse everyday.
We have had a merger of the financial sectors, corporations and government in this country in the past 30 years and is destroying this country.
I voted for Obama in 2008, not because he is a leftist, or for redistribution of wealth etc, but was hoping for the end to the corruption in our government and for more transparency, as well as the end to all the wars.
He is making Bush look good in his policies and deceptive tactics, being in bed with Wall Street and expanding the wars.
I'm hoping Ron Paul will change all this and put an end to the wars, shrink government, end the loopholes, get rid of lobbyists, end the police state (TSA, Patriotic Act) where people will need to be able to stand on their own two feet.
I just hope if he were to win, that like Obama he is also bought and paid for, and it ends up being another Charlie Brown and Lucy Football moment.
We have welfare for the rich at the top, and welfare for the poor at the bottom with the middle class paying for it, and the gravy train needs to end.
If we shrink the government, and reduce the military to defensive borders only, there will be no sugar daddy for the financial, military and corporate sectors to reap the unequal benefits they have been for the last 30 years. They will have to put on their bootstraps and fend for themselves in the world without help and fail if they loose rather than be bailed out.
Unfortunately, I think were to far gone and past the point of no return and the best thing to happen in that circumstance is a complete an utter collapse of the system and the dollar. Its a cycle that gets repeated constantly throughout history where a balance must be met one way or the other.
This board is full of right-wing ideologues, but very few right-wing pragmatists.
To them, every problem is a "failure of so-and-so ideology."
I agree. And mostly they respond to any pragmatism that's not ideologically conforming with their own by calling it Marxist, socialist, statist, etc.
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