I was curious to see the political ideology of our PF.com’s member base I have included a few plus an other field if you feel you don't closely align with the others. Cheers
I'm just going to say "Independent". There has never been a party platform which I agree with more than 70-80%. Definitely not Democrat, and there are planks in the traditional Republican platform which make me not a Republican. I had to look up Conservatarian. I don't agree with everything that description either, but perhaps I'm "closest" to their views after being a self-described Conservative Libertarian-ish for over a decade. https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/what-is-conservatarian If I started a party, it would be "Cynictarian". Government is a necessary evil, the larger the more evil, but just about any organized party will screw up the country if they ever gain complete one-party dominance.
I voted other. I consider that dogmatism is a problem. When people tend to define themselves too much as right winged, left winged, there is the death of rationnal thinking in favor of a kind of herd thinking. I grew up in a leftist environnment, and after reading, debating, just experimenting the world, I got the left in aversion. @LoneStarGal You seems a kind of Minarchist.
I had to look up "Minarchist" too....and that's a definite "No, not for me." I do agree with you about herd thinking. The people who "design" party platforms want everyone in their party to sing with the choir the entire hymnal...or get out of the party. The herd which complies also peer-pressures newcomers into the cult-think indoctrination. We really see this with today's far-left and the Cancel Culture. The old "party of tolerance" is turning into the "party of no dissenting viewpoints". In general, I wince at boxes, labels and herd mentality. Life is not black and white; it's all grey area.
Party ideology is too confining. It suggests a follower, not an individual. I am registered as a Democrat, but I'm more in the center with a list to the port.
My root is in Liberal philosophy though I believe that is true for nearly all Americans (whether they realize it or not). I tend to be wired to root for the underdog and believe many of our issues could be resolved by living up to the promises of our founding papers. I realize we’re fallible but we need to stop making excuses, creating work arounds, and draw a straight line to our clearly stated goals. Grow the freak up. Our immaturity really gets under my skin. Yeah, we should look into dissolving our party system because it’s simply not serving us. We were forewarned of it’s flaws and they’re currently the rule rather than exception. Couple those flaws with our fallible nature and you have a recipe for disaster. Our priorities are embarrassing compared to the promise of our founding papers. Hypocrisy R US.
I don't follow a political ideology. I look at an issue, study it, and come to my own conclusions. If those conclusions happen to align with a particular ideology then so what. Don't care. IMO the ones that care about ideology are the ones that are partisan and barely worth listening to. I say barely because even partisans can have valid points.
I am a moderate Democrat. I have voted for a Republican once in my life. When Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for Governor of California I voted for him.
