What is Dakka's Political Persuasion?

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**Lint**

Fiscal conservative
Social Libertarian

**Somedude593**

Liberal Conservative with side of communistic capitalism

**Melchiour**

Why vote for the lesser evil?

Vote Cthulhu!

Seriously however I don't see any party fitting my beliefs or values. I vote for whoever looks like they wont screw everything up.

**Breotan**

Economic policy: Reaganomics
Social policy: conservative/libertarian
Priorities: Civil Rights, States Rights, Free Markets (domestic)

**VensersRevenge**

I'm monarchist.

Assuming I get to be the monarch. Otherwise I'm Liberal.

EDIT: I'm -4.25 and -2.51 on the political test. Never thought I would be left-wing.

**KingCracker**

Voting wise I tend to go with who ever has the best firearms policies. After saying that I tend to side with Libertarians usually though I typically think they are bananas

**Dreadclaw69**

i'm coming to the US political scene from a very different political background so I'm still finding where about I fit in the grand scheme of things. So far I seem to fall more into the Libertarian camp, being fiscally conservative but socially liberal.

If anyone has any recommended reading for me to help me work out where my views fall Id be much obliged and will get on it once we get power restored (which is looking like midnight Friday) as for now I can only get the internet in work.

**insaniak**

I vote for whoever has the least stupid policies at the time.

**d-usa**

Edit: ignore

**RatBot**

I dunno. Some kinda lefty, I suppose.

Just took a political quiz and apparently the kind of lefty I am is a Libertarian Lefty, about a tad more than half-way to the left from the center and a tad less than half way to Libertarian from the middle, with the opposite direction being Authoritarian.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/ if anyone is interested.

**Enigwolf**

I like to beat arguments into the ground. Just because it's the interwebz. Does this make me an e-Ork?

**Breotan**

RatBot wrote:
I dunno. Some kinda lefty, I suppose.

Just took a political quiz and apparently the kind of lefty I am is a Libertarian Lefty, about a tad more than half-way to the left from the center and a tad less than half way to Libertarian from the middle, with the opposite direction being Authoritarian.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/ if anyone is interested.

Okay. I'll bite.

Economic Left/Right: 1.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.28

Hmm... that's amazingly centrist. I figured I'd be a lot farther to the right (and at least a little more libertarian) than that.

**insaniak**

Huh...
Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.82

Apparently, I'm about as Left, but slightly more Libertarian, than the Dalai Lama.

Surprising. I would have expected to be more Authoritarian.

**Cheesecat**

Flip flop between liberal and social democrat, like them both.

**azazel the cat**

Well how about that.

**feeder**

NDP because they pander to my demographic.

**rubiksnoob**

Fascist Victim-Blaming Swine Cowardist

**Sigvatr**

Enigwolf wrote:
I like to beat arguments into the ground. Just because it's the interwebz. Does this make me an e-Ork?

No, that makes you a leftist

**Enigwolf**

Sigvatr wrote:
Enigwolf wrote:
I like to beat arguments into the ground. Just because it's the interwebz. Does this make me an e-Ork?

No, that makes you a leftist

But I like to be right, not wrong...?

**Sigvatr**

Enigwolf wrote:
Sigvatr wrote:
Enigwolf wrote:
I like to beat arguments into the ground. Just because it's the interwebz. Does this make me an e-Ork?

No, that makes you a leftist

But I like to be right, not wrong...?

Guess why *right* is the opposite of wrong

**Jimsolo**

Dakka's political persuasion? Is there a party for blasé jaded cynicism?

Me? Moderate. I find extremism distasteful.

**notprop**

I'm a very staunch dyed-in-the-wool Apatharian....but you know, whatever you guys want to do I'm not bothered. I'll be over here at the bar talking to all the Warhammer groupies.

**PredaKhaine**

My political position = Nothing ever changes. The only reason we hold elections is so that someone different can have a go at putting the prices up on alchohol, cigarettes and petrol.

**RossDas**

I'd describe myself as being centre-left on the political spectrum.

**notprop**

RossDas wrote:
I'd describe myself as being centre-left on the political spectrum.

So a Tory then.

**Leigen_Zero**

Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.54

In principle, I'm somewhere between Ghandi and Stalin, closer to ghandi though..

In practise, I believe that no politician enters politics to stand for his fellow man/constituents/people, and he is attracted by power, the corrupting influence of that power just makes things worse. I've long given up on voting, when you have lived in an area with a totally ineffective local government for 20+ years, apathy tends to set in (we've had the right, the left and a bunch of independants, not a single one has delivered what they promised), by the way I live in Blaneau Gwent, which was recently featured on BBC news in an article that summarises as 'my god this place is a gakhole, and no-one seems to care or want to do anything about it' (unfortunately cannot find the link, will edit later).

So I don't bother going to vote anymore, if only because taking a dump in the ballot box is illegal...

**EmilCrane**

I don't have a picture but on that spectrum I'm dead center and halfway up to authoritarian, make of that what you will.

**Palindrome**

azazel the cat wrote:
Well how about that.

Basically the same as me.

Economic -5.75
Social - 4.92

Some of the questions were slightly fluffy though.

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notprop wrote:
RossDas wrote:
I'd describe myself as being centre-left on the political spectrum.

So a Tory then.

I think that this demonstrates just how generic, and right wing, the UK's political parties are.

**Orlanth**

I can believe that Labour are to the right of the Lib Dems, try and explain that to the Labour party though.

Like many here I don't really fit on the graph, got some left wing views, some more right wing views but they don't in any way average out to some middle of the road guy. This also applies to my ideals on rights, sometimes very strict, sometimes very liberal and each is taken in isolation. I think it an error to assume that people have an alignment to left or right, however it makes good politics to label people into those distinctions as they then become parishioners of the respective parties rather than free thinkers.

**Do_I_Not_Like_That**

I'm a Jeffersonian federalist

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Orlanth wrote:
I can believe that Labour are to the right of the Lib Dems, try and explain that to the Labour party though.

Like many here I don't really fit on the graph, got some left wing views, some more right wing views but they don't in any way average out to some middle of the road guy. This also applies to my ideals on rights, sometimes very strict, sometimes very liberal and each is taken in isolation. I think it an error to assume that people have an alignment to left or right, however it makes good politics to label people into those distinctions as they then become parishioners of the respective parties rather than free thinkers.

The left-wing Labour party you're thinking of died at the 1983 general election.