Summarized Personal Politics of Forgies

[Christopher Weeks]

OK, here's a game based on a line of Ralph's from over in the Iraq thread:

For the record, my personal political platform is about 1/3 Right, 1/3 Left, and 1/3 Libertarian.

Summarize your politics as succinctly as possible, not to exceed one sentence.  The fractional thing seems good so I'll follow suit.  (And don't get all "my political stance is way too complex to summarize like that" cuz yeah, yeah, yeah, we know!)

I'm 1/2 radical socialist and 1/2 anarcho capitalist -- don't give me any shit about them being incompatible, I only had one line.

[Jonathan Walton]

Hmm... I'm 3/4 ethnocentric tribal relativist and 1/4 bed-wetting liberal (quoting Dave Eggers quoting someone else).

[Andy Kitkowski]

I'm a lazy Socialist wearing the skin of a Capitalist. But let me emphasize 'Lazy'.

[taalyn]

I'm a socially liberal, fiscally conservative type, with a little socialism for flavor.

[Ben Terry]

Basically Anarcho-Syndicalist or Libertarian Socialist with some caveats regarding some socialists issues and individualism.

[lumpley]

I'm a damn dirty hippie.

-Vincent

[Argetlamh]

Socially liberal fiscally conservative capitalist.

-Dan Vince

[Marhault]

Anarchofascist.

[Matt Wilson]

According to the Political Compass, my economic score is  -6.62, and my authoritarian score is -7.64.

[RDU Neil]

A sig line I've used in the past.

"I'm a pro-choice, anti-government spending, pro-corporate regulation, gun-ownin' liberal.  Please, please me."

It's how I would represent myself to a political candidate, at least.

[Jason Lee]

Fiscally I'm moving farther from libertarian and closer to socialist the older I get.  

(It's odd, the more money I have the more I think I should share it with the less fortunate.  When I was less fortunate, I thought everyone should fend for them-damn-selves.)

As for social issues, I'm very far left.

[Walt Freitag]

I've considered protesting in Boston during the Democratic Convention, by carrying a banner that reads: "We demand rights, reason, and moderation" -- but 't'would be a marching mob of one, alas.

- Walt

[Anonymous]

I'm a politically naive yaller dawg democrat.

-Lisa

[Gordon C. Landis]

5 parts irony, 3 parts contingency, 2 parts solidarity.  I keep trying to up the solidarity, but I can't figure out where to get it from.

hmm, maybe that's more a philosophy answer than a politics answer (thank you, Richard Rorty).  But maybe what I want politically is a proper philosophical approach . . . in American politics.

Man, I am so screwed.

Gordon

[Clinton R. Nixon]

I'm a free-information-loving, free-choice-seeking, lover of the Constitution and patriot that thinks Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin were the best political thinkers we've had.