How would you classify your political leanings?

[yellowdoginGA]

I'm new here and consider myself a more or less traditional democrat. I'm an active union member (cwa local 3205), and that probably influences my beliefs more than anything. On DU i seem to be near the middle, but there's a lot of diversity.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Welcome to DU. :^D You can try

some of these quizzes and see where you land. I am south and west of Gandhi on the Political Compass grid.

http://www.hostdiva.com/liberalchristians/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=29

[yellowdoginGA]

7. thank you for the link

now i'm scared though. i'm a little to close to the liberatarian square for my own good, but a very interesting test.

[K-W]

9. I wouldnt put too much credence in such tools.

They arent really anymore meaningful than online love quizzes.

[Ian David]

10. Cool quizzes

Economic Left/Right: -7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.97

http://politicalcompass.org/

[Bjornsdotter]

14. On the left

Economic Left/Right: -7.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.00

Political Compass test.

Cheers!

[Ian David]

15. I'm a Non-Fiscal Stong Liberal, and a Moderate Fiscal Liberal!

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On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (8).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Moderate Liberal (20).

Your score is on a scale of 0 to 100, with 0 being fully liberal and 100 being fully conservative.

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. I came out 14 and 11

[u4ic]

27. I've never taken that one before

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (4).
On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (8).

Your score is on a scale of 0 to 100, with 0 being fully liberal and 100 being fully conservative.

[stray cat]

2. A moderate independent completely alienated by current Repubs

I consider myself a populist who believes in fiscal responsibility and is few up with political/corporate corruption.

Welcome to DU!

[LSparkle]

3. I admit I'm REactive, not PROactive -- pre-*, liberal; since *, radical

We gotta fight fire with fire. I've definitely been moved more to the left since the Rethugs began moving so far to the right.

[K-W]

4. Nihilist, classical libertarian, democrat... i suppse

Classification can be a tricky thing.

And Im not sure there is such a thing as a a middle set of opinions.

[LiberalPartisan]

5. Traditional Dem

A la Truman, JFK and Scoop Jackson

[SmokingJacket]

6. Pushed further and further left by the current administration.

I'm practically a communist, these days...

Pro-union, pro-progressive taxes, pro-public health. In general I believe in legislating much more actively for the environment. Right now, we're on an unsustainable course...

[HeeBGBz]

8. Hard left

With only moderation in some odd instances.

I don't know really.

[newswolf56]

11. A very good self-assessment test is available at:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

I took the test and scored 9.63 economic Left (max is 10) and 5.03 social libertarian (max is again 10). This feels accurate, though as other posters have said of themselves, I too am being driven still further Left (and therefore less libertarian) by the need to resist the fascist takeover of America.

[PWRinNY]

16. Thanks for the link

Mine came out at Economic Left/Right: -4.75; Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.08 - somewhere near Gandhi. Cool test!
Other test: On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (7). On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (13).
Jeez, I always thought I was somewhat more of a moderate on fiscal issues, lol.

[cmd]

17. If you were looking at a map of North America

I would be in the Baja Peninsula. Not on the coast, but moving closer.

[newswolf56]

25. I find it interesting my 9.63 Left is merely my 100 percent adherence...

to the thoroughly American values of the New Deal -- essentially the application of the historical truth of class struggle to the economic problems of constitutional democracy, including the central notion of government as our protector against the bottomless savagery of the capitalists.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Anarchist - aka Libertarian Socialist - aka - Left Libertarian

Of the Tolstoyan/Gandhian variety.

[moonlady0623]

13. Cool,

I'm in the same grid as the Dalai Lama!

[TallahasseeGrannie]

18. I am an

FDR Democrat with neo-liberal leanings, post-libertarian yearnings, Christian socialist wannabe, post-modernist with realistic tendancies and type A blood.

[DanCa]

19. I was a complete moderate in everything untill 2000

The church where I live blocked my confirmation in October of 2000, when I wouldn't take pictures of woman entering abortion clinics. They wanted to put the woman's picture in the local paper. When I refused they pressured the priest into not confirming me. I can't stand the lot of them.

Jump to May of 2003 when I was DXD with young onset parkinsons. Since that day I have become very active in the party. Every year I go to Capitol Hill and lobby for parkinsons reasearch, health care, disability, and stem cell research. Isn't it ironic that the same people who threw me out of thier priecious church are also the ones that want to block my attempts at finding a cure.

[Deja Q]

20. Somewhat left, but I cannot be stereotyped.

[greenbriar]

21. anything fucking george bush and his culture of corruption is NOT

i will NEVER EVER vote for any repuke EVER


and I used to vote for the local sherrif who was repuke

[Cascadian]

22. Democratic Socialist with Libertarian leanings.

I am for Universal health care, nationalizing the railroads and pharmacutical companies, legalizing Marijuana, prostitution, gambling off of Indian reservations, and against the government spying on ordinary citizens. You get the idea!


John

[justabob]

23. I always thought I was pretty moderate but

Economic Left/Right: -7.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.31 by Political Compass' measure.

In my own words though.... I am an economic populist and social libertarian. I believe in separation of powers, separation of church and state, the Bill of Rights and the framework outlined in the US Constitution..... and plain ol' common sense. I have been called "too radical" by dems and a "traitor" by reps. :shrug: I stand with the Democrats now because they are not republicans (most of them anyway).... I guess that makes me an Independent technically.

on edit: added an "and"

[WritingIsMyReligion]

26. Left, left, left....Um, did I mention left?

I'm in the negative 5s both categories on the political compass test, I know. So I'm pretty damn left. ;)

[New Earth]

28. Liberal Libertarian Democrat

who votes Democratic and follows Dem politics :hi:

whatever that all means :shrug: but yeah :blush:

[seg4527]

29. anarchist