How you describe yourself, politically?

[OmahaBlueDog]

What label do you attach to your political beliefs? Are you a Democrat? A Progressive? Both? Neither?

26 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Democrat
	2 (8%)
	Progressive
	5 (19%)
	Liberal
	5 (19%)
	Progressive Democrat
	0 (0%)
	Liberal Democrat
	6 (23%)
	Moderate
	0 (0%)
	Moderate Democrat
	4 (15%)
	Independent
	0 (0%)
	Conservative Democrat
	0 (0%)
	Something not mentioned above? (please state)
	4 (15%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[daleanime]

1. Socialist Democrat.

[Scootaloo]

2. Leftist

I vote democrat because they're the most leftward guys running for offices these days. If that changes, so do I. It's policy, not party.

[OmahaBlueDog]

8. I actually considered adding "leftist"

That has a communistic inference to some, so I chose not to go there.

Your response goes, however, to the heart of why I posed the question. I'm looking to see if folks here are progressives who will vote Dem until something further left comes along, or whether this is just the left wing of the Democratic party.

I consider myself a moderate. People here at DU have suggested I should go to Free Republic where I belong. My conservative friends have me pegged somewhere near Mao on the political scale. Go figure?

[Scootaloo]

16. When you sit on a fence, all you get is a picket up the ass

I'm not sure what the use of being a "moderate" is. If you believe in something, believe in it all the way, don't just follow it until the halfway point and say "good enough." I'm not sure how you figure it, but I just can't see being "moderate" about anything that matters. if we're talking pizza toppings, okay, I can be moderate... if we're talking civil rights, social justice, environmental protection, education, infrastructure, safety nets, I can't be moderate.

[OmahaBlueDog]

31. Sorry -- I'm a "shades of grey" kind of guy.

I don't buy the entire agenda of either side. I'm economically conservative, and I believe in balanced budgets. However, I don't favor balancing budgets on the backs of the poor or middle class. To me, there's a more obvious answer -- The US of A needs to get out of the world police business.

So I'm moderate on average. What I really have is a mix of views. Nevertheless, I vote for Dems,

[BainsBane]

40. Those worried about communistic implications

will simply select another term. I describe myself as leftist, so I can never answer these polls.

I'm leftist ideologically but pragmatic when it comes to American politics. I didn't used to be pragmatic, but 2000 cured me of that. I've long ago abandoned the idea that a politician should reflect my views. I pick who I think can be elected and has the temperament to get stuff done.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. too complex for a single label, due to how the parties have moved....

aligned mostly with someone like Bernie Sanders today, FDR past times - vote Democratic, but very liberal (both fiscal and social)/socialist/progressive - the labels are just confusing to me.

[JaneyVee]

4. Socially liberal, fiscally progressive.

[brentspeak]

5. An FDR/Truman/JFK Democrat who also admires Ike and TR's presidencies n/t

[giftedgirl77]

6. I love cats

Especially cats in hats

Unfortunately I live in SC so nobody will ever run anywhere near my spectrum. But I'm a liberal.

[OmahaBlueDog]

9. ..and who doesn't?

[giftedgirl77]

12. Only ppl who haven't met the right one.

[PowerToThePeople]

7. Socialist

[CJCRANE]

10. A leftie. nt

[Fumesucker]

11. I used to be disgusted now I try to be amused -Elvis Costello

[abelenkpe]

17. angels want to wear my red shoes... nt

[Proud Public Servant]

13. It's evolving

For years -- decades, really -- I've simply described myself as a liberal. But lately I've been so disappointed by the timidity of what often passes for liberalism now that I've taken to using either "progressive" or, more commonly, "old-school liberal."

[HERVEPA]

14. Dyed-in-the-wool bleeding-heart liberal

[ZombieHorde]

15. Socialist, but

I have been thinking of abandoning the label in favor of "independent," or something else, for three reasons.

1. The label "socialist" means different things to different people, so I don't feel that I am often communicating what I want to communicate.

2. If I strongly identify with a political label, then I will be very likely to develop biases that would impede my critical thinking skills.

3. Any political system can be used to oppress people, and I dislike oppression more than I like any political system.

[CJCRANE]

20. The way I see it...

Do you side with the underdog or the overlord?

Obviously if you side with the underdog then you're left wing.

I actually think there needs to be a balance but politics and the media is so heavily weighted to the right nowadays, there needs to be a left wing counterbalance to get the equilibrium right.

[LittleBlue]

18. Antiwar Democrat

Between the issues of war and economic disparity, those are the two sole reasons I joined the Democratic Party.

[abelenkpe]

19. Whatever Bernie Sanders is...

Or FDR.

aka leftie firebagger to third way moderate types.

[ruffburr]

21. Democratic Socialist

For voting on how and what socialist policies we should approve while keeping the best of the progress we have made, Basically a consensus by a popular majority, No electoral B.S.

[laundry_queen]

37. Democratic socialist here too

but with proportional representation as the means to enact policies. I'm more a Democratic socialist as it is defined in my poli sci book - socialism achieved by democracy and rather than complete state ownership - public ownership of some key industries, coops, unions and tight regulation of a market economy. (I'm a Keynesian). My book pretty much equates Democratic socialist and Social Democrat so...that's what I am. Either or.

[Aristus]

22. Liberal till I DIE!

[War Horse]

23. Social Democrat, basically

or sometimes just simply "I'm basically just a leftist. Make of that what you will".

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

24. Left Libertarian aka Anarchist

[Starry Messenger]

25. Communist.

[Warren DeMontague]

26. left-libertarian.

[liberal_at_heart]

27. somewhere between an independent and a socialist.

[lumberjack_jeff]

28. Belligerent liberal. n/t

[Humanist_Activist]

29. Socialist n/t

[MadrasT]

30. I vote for Democrats and I don't like labels.

[Spider Jerusalem]

32. Social democrat.

Social democracy is a political ideology that officially has as its goal the establishment of democratic socialism through reformist and gradualist methods. Alternatively, social democracy is defined as a policy regime involving a universal welfare state and collective bargaining schemes within the framework of a capitalist economy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

[NuclearDem]

33. Idealistically a collectivist anarchist.

Though I'll align with any leftist group--liberal Democrats, socialists, etc.

[LanternWaste]

34. An FDR Democrat.

An FDR Democrat.

Others though, have described me as a communist, a fascist, a rube, a taker, an authoritarian, and a bunch of other valid, English words with unfortunate revolving definitions that depend on the people using the labels so they may better understand other people.

[socialist_n_TN]

35. Trotskyist.........

Aka as a Bolshevik-Leninist.

[LostOne4Ever]

36. Left wing Libertarian

AKA a modern American liberal democrat with a focus on civil rights

[Jamaal510]

38. I consider myself a socialist,

but I have (and will always) vote Dem, just because they have been the Left's best bet at pushing our side's agenda in such a mixed-bag country and steering clear of the RW crazies.

[johnp3907]

39. Socialist.

[WiffenPoof]

41. I Used To Be A Democrat

...but I guess now I'm considered to be a Progressive.

[Chisox08]

42. Socialist

[PETRUS]

43. leftist/egalitarian

[Douglas Carpenter]

44. a left-wing social-democrat in the western European sense of the term who supports the Democratic

Party most of the time - because there is no affective alternative

[PD Turk]

45. left wing militant

No more Mr Nice Guy