Reasons For Political Stance

[The Ghost of Bondo]

What are the basic, fundamental reasons behind your political beliefs?

I think this quote from tasty in the Democratic Primary thread is actually deserving of its own thread.  Basically, what overriding values do you hold that shapes your views in politics.

Personally, I'm liberal because compassion for people, animals, and nature are very important to me.  I don't think people should live just for themselves or those immediate to them.  I think everyone needs to work together in this world to provide the best wellbeing for as many people as is possible.  I don't think anyone should live in poverty just like I don't think anyone should have obscene wealth.  There is a difference between having expendable income and the ability to have a few comforts and having millions to waste on completely unnecessary cars/houses/etc.  This is why I'm an advocate of having a ratioed pay scale in businesses so the top people aren't paid outlandish amounts while the bottom people can't even make a living out of it.

[Ace]

I'm conversative because it pisses liberals off.

[alaric]

I am what I am because that's what I am.

Now enough of this silly labeling of people, all it does is restrict your ability to make objective decisions about issues and candidates.

[jn.loudnotes]

I guess I'm liberal because it pisses Ace off. . .

[Ace]

Oh, I don't care. That just means more gas for me to guzzle, more trees for me to chop down, and more poor people for me to to oppress.

[*NADS Capt. Anarchy]

I don't subscribe to any one politcal stance... I take each issue as it comes, do some in depth reasearch, weight the pros and cons, and then I come down on the side with the hottest chicks at their events.

[Jeb]

I'd say I'm a liberal, despite my pro-war, pro-american stance. In seattle, it doesn't matter who you vote for, it always goes to the democrats. I generally get pissed off by protesters, animal rights activists, vegetarians green-peace, and religion. I like most people, the first amendment, science, unicorns, and long walks on the beech.

Bondo, I'm curious why your political party matters, you haven't registered to vote and your moving to canada .

[Cossack]

HAHA even I can vote!

[The Ghost of Bondo]

Bondo, I'm curious why your political party matters, you haven't registered to vote and your moving to canada .

Liberal isn't a political party.  I'm certainly not a democrat, I just prefer them to republicans.

But I intent to register to vote when I renew my driver's license next January to be elgible for the Presidential election.  I figure that can be my one US election before I move.

[jn.loudnotes]

I think I sense a general distaste for political parties. . .why is it that our government has such exclusion among them then?

Oh and Jeb - do you equate pro-war with pro-American?  I consider my stance more pro-American in that I oppose the war. . .

Ace. . .exactly  

[kami]

I wouldn't say I'm a liberal, I'm more like a liberal socialist because I absolutely believe that the state should take care of some of the basic things in society such as education, security and health, and that privatising any of those is harmful to the society... Other than that I'm pretty liberal about most things like what you do in your personal life.
Like Jeb, I get pissed off by many protesters, especially the ultra-socialist/communist and anarchistic ones. Also I think that animal rights activists/greenpeace and all those groups often just hurt their views more than they help it, I like seeing things like that in a more moderate way. I believe in what science says pretty much in every occasion, and religion in politics just pisses me off.
I can't really say WHY I believe in everything I believe in, it just feels like the right thing when I think about it, guess it has to do with personal morals a lot.