Where do i stand politicaly.
 

Hey, ive grown up my whole life thinking im a republican. But now im starting to wonder, all of my conservative friends are starting to sound downright stupid to me. So where do my political alliance lie?

I believe in:
Minimal gun control (Ie. buying ages, tracking numbs, but keep guns very available)

Abortion is a choice because no one can philosophically prove whether a fetus is a life or not.

Legalize Marijuana, its really not that harm full and would be a soccer punch in the gut to gangs around the nation.

Gay marriage should be legal because it shouldn't be the governments business what people decide to do with their lives.

Mandatory health insurance is wrong! Government shouldn't be able to force anyone to buy health insurance!

Our health care system is broken and way to expensive and we must find a way to drive prices down without crushing the incentive to become an excellent health care practitioner.

Our government gives out way too many hand outs, food stamps should exist, well fare should exist to an extent, but by god we cant have people living off of this sh!t forever.

The gap between the rich and poor is growing to steep. If we are not careful we will become willing slaves to the men in suits. Corporate America is destroying the rest of America.

Social security should not be a retirement fund.

The government is way to tough on small business and insist on taxing the Pi$$ out of us.

We should seal our border to the south. and have a passive deportation policy for the illegals already in our country ( ie, if they are found at a crime scene or sent to court we should deport them)

We should have more financial incentives for middle class people to go to college.. If someone my age and is poor wants to go to college but didnt do jack in HS they can go to college nearly for free. But someone like me who worked my arse off in HS and comes from a middle class family who refuses to pay for any of my college gets slapped with massive amounts of loans for tuition and housing.

I also support lowering the drinking age down to 14 with a parent and 16 when alone. One of the most dangerous things in the world is a college student who gets his first go at alcohol without any of the social training that should go with it.

Control is mimimal. You can get one at Walmart.

This is an entirely different thread that can stand on it's own. Can it be proved medically?

Yes, this will help with the broken medical system you speak of. More lung cancer!

I agree.

Correct! It's illegal to do so.

Yes it is. Current administration throws money at it hoping it will go away. Drive prices down...start with tort reform.


Nothing new here. People do make a living living off the gov't.

It already has done this....about two years ago. The haves and the have nots.

It really was not sold to the general public as a retirement fund.

I agree.


In the state of MD there are moves to pass a bill to provide instate tuition to illegals. Great! My two kids get possibly screwed because an illegal filled a spot for instate tuition.


I think 14 is to irresponsible an age. Practice not drinking. Much better for the liver.


You sound Conservative to me. :hmmm:

Centrist?

Try this:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

At one time you may have been a Republican. But perhaps the party changed and not you?

I was a Republican all my life coming from a family of Republicans. In the past 20 years or so, the GOP has changed and changed in a way that no longer agrees with my opinions.

Hence, I am now an Independent.

Yeah, you're not the first person I hear this from. Quite a difference between traditional conservatives and neo-conservatives. Sadly the neocon brand is easy to market to corporate america...

Good point. Sometimes one wonders what the flavor of the week is!

^^ This echoes my story almost exactly.

Just watching the news, corportate CEO's now make more than than they did in the 2007 booming economy due to increased profit. They say this is attributed to less employees, not increasing wages down and cutting benefits.

And they need a tax cut, better profits than when in a booming economy, paying a worse wage, layoffs, etc....

Good old trickle down economics.

I don't see how the GOP has undergone any kind of fundamental change in the past 20 years that would isolate its traditional base, save the comparatively recent Tea-Party movement, which is shifting it more to economic right. Indeed, one of the driving factors behind the Tea Party is disillusionment with the Republican economic platform, which has failed to be conservative in everything other than name for the better part of a century.

What would be the term when you're against both poles (left/right)??

Anarcho-liberal, freelance centrist ?? :hmmm:

Where do I stand politically... hmm...


I'd have to say...


... over a toilet bowl, retching.

No, no...not what you do after hosting a intergalactic kegger...:O:

Plat, you also described me to a T.

In the last 20 years? Maybe not. But I think the overt pandering to the religious right started right up around the time the Moral Majority came to prominence. They've been making hay with that crowd by openly promoting or at least pretending not to disagree with an anti-gay, anti-choice, quasi-Dominionist agenda ever since.

And yes I say pandering, because IMO most of the Powers That Be in the GOP couldn't care less about the religious right's agenda beyond doing what it takes to get their votes on election day.

Agreed, and also unsurprising. They're just doing exactly what we designed them to do, which is to garner a majority of votes.

Preaching to the choir, my friend. It was a lovely sermon, though, and decidedly more tolerable and succinct than most.:up: