Why are you a [insert political party here]?

[JS80]

I don't vote because I believe in Freedom.

 

[BoomerD]

I vote Democrat mostly because of their support for organized labor. I worked union for nearly 30 years. Why vote for the party whose goal is to kill/slash your source of income?

I can't see voting for the Republicans because they're nothing but lapdogs of the rich and powerful...While the Dems have gone that way to a degree, they're not as blatant about their disdain of the common working man as the Republicans.

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

I typically (often begrudgingly) vote Dem because the alternative is a party that's driven by a core ideology that government cannot function properly and should not bother to try and that is the last attitude any government official should have.

 

[JS80]

I typically (often begrudgingly) vote Dem because the alternative is a party that's driven by a core ideology that government cannot function properly and should not bother to try and that is the last attitude any government official should have.

So it's only a matter of time until you realize that government cannot in fact function properly?

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

So it's only a matter of time until you realize that government cannot in fact function properly?

Self-fulfill prophecies much?

 

[Ausm]

Do you work for a newspaper? MSNBC? CNN? A George Soros media subsidiary? Kinda left out the part...

No not all it just blows me away how you could post that garbage.

 

[Ausm]

So it's only a matter of time until you realize that government cannot in fact function properly?

If you hate Gubermint move to Somalia.

 

[JS80]

If you hate Gubermint move to Somalia.

They wouldn't let me in because I wasn't Muslim.

 

[nick1985]

If you hate Gubermint move to Somalia.

If you love complete government control, move to North Korea

 

[KGB]

I used to be a registered R and now I'm a registered D.

The funny thing is: I haven't changed any of my beliefs or values.

 

[werepossum]

I vote Democrat mostly because of their support for organized labor. I worked union for nearly 30 years. Why vote for the party whose goal is to kill/slash your source of income?

I can't see voting for the Republicans because they're nothing but lapdogs of the rich and powerful...While the Dems have gone that way to a degree, they're not as blatant about their disdain of the common working man as the Republicans.

Republicans really need to support trade unions and even non-public sector labor unions.

 

[BoomerD]

Republicans really need to support trade unions and even non-public sector labor unions.

That's never gonna happen. It's a Republican's wet dream to do away with ALL labor unions...as well as worker safeguards.

 

[woolfe9999]

My approach to politics is pragmatic and aimed at problem solving. Where government can promote the public interest, which includes individual liberty, then it should step in. Where it cannot, it should butt out. I tend to vote democrat because the democratic party is a mixture of pragmatists and ideologues, whereas the GOP consists in large part of just ideologues.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

I hate illegals, public sector unions and everyone being PC. Just fucking tell it like it is and not worry about hurting anyone's feelings.
I like owning guns, want the govt at all levels to reign in spending.
I don't care about gays and abortions.
I want America to be great again.

Which party should I associate with?

 

[werepossum]

I hate illegals, public sector unions and everyone being PC. Just fucking tell it like it is and not worry about hurting anyone's feelings.
I like owning guns, want the govt at all levels to reign in spending.
I don't care about gays and abortions.
I want America to be great again.

Which party should I associate with?

Me too!

 

[zsdersw]

I hate illegals, public sector unions and everyone being PC. Just fucking tell it like it is and not worry about hurting anyone's feelings.
I like owning guns, want the govt at all levels to reign in spending.
I don't care about gays and abortions.
I want America to be great again.

Which party should I associate with?

Libertarian party.

 

[Lithium381]

in one sentence.... because my party wants what's best for the country and the other party doesn't

 

[zsdersw]

in one sentence.... because my party wants what's best for the country and the other party doesn't

I'm not sure what's funnier... that you believe it or that you admitted it.

 

[nick1985]

I'm not sure what's funnier... that you believe it or that you admitted it.

I think he actually believes that, rofl!

 

[senseamp]

Democrat:
1. Republicans can not govern.
2. No viable third party
3. Deduction.

 

[Karl Agathon]

I'm a registered Democrat because at the time I registered to vote, my political views skewed left of center. Over the last few years though, ive become more moderate to right of center on many issues like Red China being a threat and political correctness. I'm very conservative on most national security/defense issues. So these days, I would place myself as a moderate to conservative Democrat. I also am a bit troubled that it seems to be very trendy to be anti-semitic in some "progressive" circles these days.

 

[werepossum]

I'm a registered Democrat because at the time I registered to vote, my political views skewed left of center. Over the last few years though, ive become more moderate to right of center on many issues like Red China being a threat and political correctness. I'm very conservative on most national security/defense issues. So these days, I would place myself as a moderate to conservative Democrat. I also am a bit troubled that it seems to be very trendy to be anti-semitic in some "progressive" circles these days.

Some?

 

[Craig234]

I'm a registered Democrat because at the time I registered to vote, my political views skewed left of center. Over the last few years though, ive become more moderate to right of center on many issues like Red China being a threat and political correctness. I'm very conservative on most national security/defense issues. So these days, I would place myself as a moderate to conservative Democrat. I also am a bit troubled that it seems to be very trendy to be anti-semitic in some "progressive" circles these days.

The left has as many or more concerns about China than the middle or right IMO, we just don't think the answer is war; for the right, China is in many ways their model for how we should change to, in terms of being a society with a lot of cheap labor, few workers rights, and a few getting most of the benefits. Toss in the low regulation for things like pollution to increase profits and you almost have the Koch brothers.

What does 'conservative' on national security/defense issues even mean now?

Supportive of the Reagan policies to exploit other nations by sponsoring death squads and terrorists to force them to serve our interests?

Supportive of the corruption of the military industry gorging on unneeded hundreds of billions of our tax dollars, tripling the defense budget in the last 15 years?

Supporting the US expanding the sell of arms as the #1 global arms dealer?

Imperialism? Tyranny? Torture, secret rendition camps, installing dictators?

What the hell does it mean?

Don't give me a straw man about the left as the answer.

Finally, you apparently conflate opposition to Israel abusing people as anti-semitism.

There's a big difference.

 

[Craig234]

Democrat:
1. Republicans can not govern.
2. No viable third party
3. Deduction.

Casting his eyes from the Bush administration’s final months of plunder to the earliest days of the Republican revolution, Thomas Frank uncovers the deep logic behind the graft and incompetence of conservatives in power. He shows how leaders dedicated to a doctrine of government by entrepreneurship proceeded to sell off the state, channeling the profits to cronies and loyalists. He surveys the federal agencies doomed to failure by the inept and even hostile staff appointed to run them. He charts the practice of wholesale deregulation and the devastating results now clear for all to see. From political scandal to mortgage meltdown, Frank documents the consequences of enshrining the free market as the logic of the state.

http://tcfrank.com/books/the-wrecking-crew/

 

[Moonbeam]

There is an argument for not allowing the greater evil to win.

There is also an argument for not helping either evil to win.

Saying there is an argument doesn't mean there is one. Let's hear it. Let's start with the fact that one of the evils is going to win, now justify how having the greater evil win is better.