Alll This Left , Right, Center Stuff Is Making Me Confused

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Some folks are saying to go right...

Some folks are saying to go to the center...

Some foks are saying to go to left...

Some folks are saying to stay where we are at....

And some folks are saying labels are useless but this avoids the problem and doesn't remedy it...


IMHO, the best strategy to isolate the right is not to move to the right but to co opt the moderates in a united front against the right.....


Choice and gay rights come immediately to mind but you can do this exercise for a host of issues...

The right is against any kind of recognition for gay couples and want to recriminalize sodomy... Yep, look at the polls.... About 35% -40% of Americans think Lawrence v Texas was wrongly decided...
How anybody in the twenty first century could think they should put Joey in the hooskow because he schtupped Frankie is beyond me....

Moderates tolerate homosexuality and believe it is not to be encourage or discouraged but tolerated...They believe folks are born that way as long as it's other folks... They support civil unions and tolerance.... They think gay bashing is so de classe....

Liberals believe love knows no bounds and support marriage for anyone in love who wants to make their union permanent..

On abortion the right opposes abortion in most if not all cases...


Moderates support most abortions but oppose partial term abortions and support some restrictions such as parental notification... As a Florid voter I voted against the parental notification measure on the ballot.....

Liberals support abortions in most cases...


I am hard core liberterian on social issues and center-left on economic issues but I am willing to find common ground with my moderate brothers and sisters in a common front against the right....

[itzamirakul]

1. We really need...

a more definite definition of each of these terms. What exactly does it mean to be a libertarian? A centrist? A leftist? I feel that I am definitely left-leaning on most social issues, but more moderate on economic issues as related to government spending, etc. Sometimes I am hard-pressed to define myself even TO myself. :)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Is A Libeterian A Leftist Or A Right...

A liberterian is liberal on social issues but what is he on economic issues...

He wants to dismantle the welfare states and leave everyone to the whims and vagaries of the market...


A leftist is a civil libeterian but favors government intervention in the economy......


Maybe a moderate is somewhere in the middle...

[DemGirl7]

3. I consider myself...

to be a moderate democrat who leans somewhat more towards the left than other moderates. One issues like gay marriage I support it all the way, even though I really don't support Partial birth abortion...but I don't think it the gov't has a right to outlaw it. I always had respect for most moderates, and liberals alike, and I do support them by voting for both. I feel that the democratic party needs to stop fighting among the left/moderate fractions and to come together, and start winning elections again. Because what is happening now, only makes the Republican party stronger, the democrats weaker.