Why are you a Conservative, Liberal, Socialist, Communist, Centrist etc..

[Lake View Too]

Your use of words ending in "ive" is borderline excessive.

Excessive, yet expressive and impressive.

 

[idlewind]

Anarchy is anti-authoritarian. Conservatives and Nazis (you brought them up not me) are very authoritarian. They are all part of the right (wrong I should say) and believe in a strong centralized government in order to support a platform of belligerent nationalism. Polar opposite of anarchists who rightly or wrongly prefer a state of disorder and chaos. I say it's wrong, but far preferable to the extreme conservative ideal, which is alive and well in North Korea. Substitute god and Jesus for Kim Yung Ill and his dead father and you've got right wingnut paradise.

I get that you hate religion and that is cool. But we are talking political science. Regardless of where you fit on the spectrum the spectrum must go from no government (anarchy) on one end and totalitarianism ( total government control) on the other. A true "conservative" believes in limited government and especially limited federal government. Again I assure you no true conservative wants a North Korea style government.

 

[Geo]

Sorry if I was too aggressive.

 

[LuciferSam]

I get that you hate religion and that is cool. But we are talking political science. Regardless of where you fit on the spectrum the spectrum must go from no government (anarchy) on one end and totalitarianism ( total government control) on the other. A true "conservative" believes in limited government and especially limited federal government. Again I assure you no true conservative wants a North Korea style government.

Really, I'd like to see how far today's red state conservatives would try to play the "state's rights" card if the federal government would let them. For some people, life would be miserable, and they would have no recourse.

 

[LuciferSam]

Sorry if I was too aggressive.

I think it's kind of festive!

 

[30ashopper]

I really don't know what that word means. I would think that everybody would want to be progressive at least by the dictionary definition. Progress is good, you know, so is change. I think maybe it's a Fox News buzzword for anybody who doesn't agree with their agenda. Seriously, I never understood what that was supposed to mean. They [progressives] don't rely on tradition to make important decisions maybe???? They believe in gay rights??? They're pro-choice??? They're secular maybe?? I think government should be secular. I certainly have no use for religion. If that makes me progressive then I'm guilty as charged. Help me out. I'd have trouble identifying a progressive country. Maybe the good old USA?? I dunno. I think maybe at least half of our country has progressive leanings but I'm not sure. I would say somebody like Rand Paul is regressive. Sarah Palin is manic depressive. Bobby Jindal is unimpressive.

I chalk that up to the success conservatives have had at fending off their agenda during your life time. ;-) Enjoy your freedoms.

 

[Beauty hunter]

I always thought these groups were ridiculous. It was synonomous to me to saying: Blacks think this way, whites think that way, reds do this, yellows do that. Individual integrity should be the basis for all decision-making. If the other way was working, I would agree with it. Right now, it appears silly and anti-productive like grammar school mentality you can't be in my club if you don't do this. If something is not working, CHANGE IT. It's time for change. A square wheel (political parties) will never get you down the road, but will frustrate your efforts to succeed. Thinking outside the box will move us forward. Members of a group will dissolve their integrity if many others of that group are doing the same or either they will leave. Everything must come back to individual integrity or we will continue to see what we are seeing now.

 

[30ashopper]

I always thought these groups were ridiculous. It was synonomous to me to saying: Blacks think this way, whites think that way, reds do this, yellows do that. Individual integrity should be the basis for all decision-making. If the other way was working, I would agree with it. Right now, it appears silly and anti-productive like grammar school mentality you can't be in my club if you don't do this. If something is not working, CHANGE IT. It's time for change. A square wheel (political parties) will never get you down the road, but will frustrate your efforts to succeed. Thinking outside the box will move us forward. Members of a group will dissolve their integrity if many others of that group are doing the same or either they will leave. Everything must come back to individual integrity or we will continue to see what we are seeing now.

I don't approach things this way. I think you have to apply a set of base principals, otherwise you risk long term negative consequences you often can't see initially. "Just change it" is the approach many politicians apply to our problems, look where that got us. There's a lot of "just change it" going on in washington right now with very little consideration of the long term effects.

 

[Here4Good]

She didn't say, "just change it", she said, "if something's not working, change it".

 

[LuciferSam]

I chalk that up to the success conservatives have had at fending off their agenda during your life time. ;-) Enjoy your freedoms.

:roll: The progressive is a bogieman/strawman that gives conservatives a sense of purpose.