Political Ideology Poll

I'm sure it's been done a million times and I'm beating a dead horse here, but what's your political ideology?

Personally, I'm an anarchist, of the individualist variety. My favorite political thinker of all time is Benjamin Tucker, and among the contemporary strands of anarchism I stand straight in the middle way between anarcho-syndicalism and agorism.

Free Enterprise, Democracy with some regulation (namely in keeping health standards up and avoiding negative externalities). A strong government decided by the people's will is a good government.

"Black Flag Libertarian" is how I'd term my political outlook. I'm warming to the concept of anarcho-pluralism.

Northern Irish unionism. I don't really have very strong views on any issues beyond the constitutional status of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom, though.

I suppose I would vote for whatever party assures the freedom of the individual people.

I often wonder if the most effective ideology varies between societies. For example, one society might be more conducive to communism than another, in which liberalism may be more effective. As a consequence, we might assume that problems only arise when one of these societies decides to apply an universalist perspective to their way.

edited 28th Feb '11 9:32:34 AM by TheGloomer

Burkean conservative with a touch of what Brits would call One Nation Toryism.

Why is staying Brit that important?

I never got patriotism, perhaps because I'm unable to identify or sympathize with governments.

edited 28th Feb '11 10:12:33 AM by SavageHeathen

I considering myself a progressive libertarian, looking to maximize positive freedom for the highest number of people. Right now, in my opinion corporations are a bigger threat to real freedom than government. I actually disagree very strongly with welfare state progressives, much preferring steps to increase wages via market forces (I.E. policies designed to maintain a state of stable full employment). I support free-ish markets whenever they make sense. (A market is never truly "free", for a variety of reasons). The more effective that competition can be in a market, the freer it should be. Health care, energy, telecommunications, education etc. should either be government run or at least tightly regulated. Consumer goods, should be much less regulated.

I would argue that we relax a lot of government regulations, but not until we come up with some better methods/mechanisms to hold corporations/decision makers more responsible for the decisions that they make. I don't think the status quo works very well in this regard.

Depending on my mood I swing from moderate libertarian, to full blown nihilist.

Moderate centrism with a slight lean to the left, I suppose. Social democrat at a pinch.

edited 28th Feb '11 12:46:15 PM by pagad

I'm more or less centrist.

A general political hodgepodge, generally on the side of Libertarian Leftism.

Influenced by Workerism, Mutualism, Left Communism, Utopianism, Transhumanism, Singulitarianism, Extropianism, Feminism, Social Constructionism, Naturalism, Traditionalism, Cultural Conservatism, Interculturalism, Eurasianism, Localism, Intellectualism, and Technogaianism. And I worry, perhaps to a minor degree, to some minor degree, Turanism.

My, that's a lot of 'ism's.

Capitalized, no less...

I don't know all of my 'ism parts, but generally I am slightly left of center, with antipathy towards organized religion.

Social democratism. Basically combine a large welfare state, and a large number of personal and political rights, AKA something on the line of Scandanavian contries.

IMHO, there are too many labels, and I'm not sure if I really fit any of them.

On political quizes I got:

• border point of "centrist", "conservative", and "libertarian".
• "left - leaning freedom lover".
• "Richard Nixon Republican".

I think used to be more "moderate conservative" (e.g., John Mc Cain, Joe Lieberman), but I've become more "moderate fiscal conservative libertarian" (John Stossel is an example of a not - so - moderate fiscal conservative libertarian)

Don't know.

I'm told I lean to the left quite strongly, though.

Whew.

I'm hard to place. Overall I come across as quite centrist, but there are issues where I swing violently left and right on both the economic and political spectrum.

Why is staying Brit that important?

It isn't a question of patriotism for me, and indeed, I'm not actually opposed to the idea of ending the partition between the two states. However, I think the last chance we had for it to go with a minimum of bloodshed was forty years ago. Perhaps in the future we will reach a point where the island can be one nation, but I think that's a long way off.

Anyway, if I must define my political beliefs outside of that context, I will say that I am in favour of Isaiah Berlin's conception of negative liberty and I admire the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and John Stuart Mill.

I think Scotland can leave the union any time we hold a referendum and get a clear majority. I just think it will leave us bankrupt, and I don't think splitting ourselves up is a good idea. I believe devolution gives us all the powers we need. Scotland already gets a good deal out of the union domestically; we get proportionally more spent on us than the rest of the union.

In fact, in every situation I've come across, its England that has the right to complain about its northern neighbour.

I would assume that's why every time the SNP makes secessionist noises they seem to get such a lukewarm response. Same with Plaid Cymru.

edited 28th Feb '11 4:36:57 PM by pagad

More central than a lot of conservatives, but still definitely conservative.

Overall libertarian, with some leftist tendancies.

Hard-line Steel Fraternity supporter and Skorzenian nationalist.

Independent.