Conservative or Liberal?

What do the labels mean?

 

It is not likely that such black and white stereotypes can be used to truly define any of us.
Besides, without definition of the terms they are meaningless.
Are these US terms, British terms, other countries?

 

This is exactly what is wrong with politics.

 

i'm ' the party that does what the people want when the people want it, and nothing else'

might be a while before people catch on that this could and should be a viable future but good things come to those who wait

 

None of the above. On some issues I would be considered conservative, on some, liberal.

Trying to compartmentalise people into one big bucket and brush them all with one extremist viewpoint of opinions is the exact problem with politics in the US.

Furthermore, whilst I would probably be labelled as one thing here in the UK - I'd be labelled the opposite in the US.

Many of the issues that seem to define the difference between the two camps in the US, are all non-issues here in the UK across the full political spectrum, with (pro-choice, anti death penalty, pro public health care, pro gun control ) the results probably being considered extreme liberal by many US eyes.

 

I'm Jewish.

 

I guess you would call me a liberal ?

 

I'm left of the right of center.

 

But our opinion is correct and yours is not, should we not categorize people so that we can tell who is correct and who is mistaken? That way, maybe all the people who are correct can band together and finish off all the wrong-headed people once and for all.

 

Moderate.

 

I don't think the thread is bad enough to call for it to be moderated.

 

Umm I am an Anarcho-Syndicalist who supports left leaning progressive ideas with the thought that even baby steps in the right direction are important.

Where does that put me?

 

Liberal extremist

 

~SARAH PALIN IN 2012~
~MacBook Unibody Conservative~
~01/20/13~

Sure you don't want to change that ?

 

Demolitions expert.

 

You could look here, here, here, here, here, or here to get an idea.

 

In politics and religion, a moderate is an individual who is not extreme, partisan or radical.[1]

That is not the definition of someone who supports Palin.

 

Maverick.

 

It depends on who I'm talking to.

 

And either just lying, or suffering from delusional disorder.

You're the dictionary definition of extreme conservative.

 

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/left-vs-right-us/

 

In a fairly early part of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

"Now you see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed! You saw him repressing me, didn't you?"

 

Those labels are meaningless.

For example, Barry Goldwater was, once upon a time, the father of the Conservative movement. He was to the Right of Right. By today's standards (largely arbitrated by the media, btw), he would be moderate-to-liberal.

JFK was considered left-leaning back in the day. Today, he'd be a staunch fiscal conservative by comparison with the bunch running around today.

Intelligence in politics is so vanishingly rare, one cannot afford to reject half the slate of candidates out of hand based on a label or political party membership. I vote for those I deem intelligent. I don't get to vote with confidence very often.

 

I'm a conservative.