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Since when is letting market forces decide pricing 'outlandish'? The only thing the Left proposes is socializing. We need only look to Athens, Paris, and London to see where the entitlement nanny state mentality leads.
How about Germany, Norway or Sweden?
Are there any 1st world nations that are run by Conservatives (although Conservative by world political standards is quite a bit left of American Conservatism)?
I just wanted to see how everyone feels they lean politically and to see where they think the majority of the board lies.
Voices from all sides. For every rep, you'll get someone from the other side infuriated by what you said.
As to which side has the majority of voices, it depends on the issue. Some things lean left, some right. Some things, like our huge Defense Budget, have strong supporters and strong opponents on both sides of the political spectrum, and for the life of me I don't know why ANYONE thinks we are accomplishing anything by constant foreign wars, let alone how anyone thinks we can continue to afford to do so after racking up a debt of over $15 trillion and still skyrocketing.
Or else there is just a very loud cadre of right wing loonies here.
I haven't met an actual "leftist" here yet. I see some people who are center-left who get called socialists, but only by the right wing loonies.
I'd like to actually know what a "rabid leftist" is anyway. We get called that and socialists, and communists, etc. so often here, but I haven't the foggiest clue what people are basing that on short of it being an empty ad hominen attack.
I think the better poll question would be: "How many of you are collectivist authoritarian big-government statists that hate "the rich" and how many are anti-federalist, free-market capitalist individualists that want to keep more of the product of your own labor"?
Left = commies
Right = freedom
And I reject the notion that freedom equals confiscatory taxation, bloated federal bureaucracies that violate the enumerated powers outlined in the Constitution, wealth redistribution, smoking dope in the streets, plunging forks into fetus heads, and state recognition of perverted behavior such as homosexuality.
I lean right but this forum has a small army of very outspoken leftists who are relentless with their bashing of conservatives, conservative organizations and politicians and especially conservative spokespeople, e.g. Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, etc.
The Perry bashing threads have already started, too--gearing up for his coming announcement that he will enter the presidential race.
People like Ann Coulter deserve to be bashed. Anyone who thinks she is a rational, sane person really needs their head examined (no offense). She is one of the nastiest people on this planet, right up there with Fred Phelps.
Left-wingers tend to feel that they're moderate, whereas right-wingers don't have any qualms about identifying as right-wing. A better poll would simply ask who they voted for in 2008.
Eh, I'm not sure that is a good judge. Many people who would have voted for McCain, voted for Obama because Palin ended up on the ticket. I'm fairly sure that if McCain had a better VP, he would have won.
It seems to me that there is more leftwing bashing than rightwing bashing on this thread, but I just did a quick analysis of the current front page headlines. Here's how they break down:
Inflammatory Slam on Liberals: 20
Inflammatory Slam on Conservatives: 19
Neutral: 13
I lean left. Many liberals would say I'm moderate. I'm most liberal on social issues, but not on all things.
I think C-D PoC is kind of balanced, with a tilt to the Right. There are quite a few very vociferous hard righties who post a lot, on every little thing, and that makes the forum seem more right-leaning, but there are a sizable number of moderate and liberal voices. I know there are a few hard-lefties but they don't seem to pop up as often or else don't make it so obvious.
I'd also never heard of Stormfront or encountered anybody with their views in over 20 years until I started visiting C-D.
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