by John Doe 36 Replies latest jw friends
What was it Will Rogers said, "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I am a democrat."
That kind of sums up my feelings on the matter. I dont belong to any political party, but I DO consider myself to be very conservative in my outlook of the world.
Is "she" a man? ;-)
Probably a drag queen! just look at the jaws. If not,, I would do her.
Do the US parties have widely differing policies? I mean is there a real choice to make between the two? If not, IP may be correct that political parties are there to divide people!
The differences are largely about social policies. The Democrats largely favor changing cultural mores through government imposition, the Republicans resist such change. Otherwise, the differences are not all that wide, both seem to want to expand government power, though at least the Democrats are up-front about that while the Republicans claim to oppose such expansion. The big argument really seems to be about just where that power should be expanded (though if anybody thinks that Hillary and the Democratic party will roll back Bush's patriot act abuses if they are still there if Hillary becomes president, I have a nice Bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you).
I get accused of being both a radical right-wing and a neocon by certain folks around here. But then they don't read my posts all that much, as one of the most egregious of them has admitted. I am a moderate, I just don't favor the radical positions which some around here are so dogmatic about. So I tend to get reviled by them. ;-)
Forscher
If I had to put a label on myself, I would say libertarian.
Humans are a band creature. Like fish are a school creature, birds are a flock creature, ants are a hive creature, lions are a pride animal, cows are a herd animal.
We evolved to be involved in an egalitarian band of no more than 150 people. After that, you require heirarchy to reduce chances at chaos, because, with every new individual you add to a group of 99 individuals, you've just added 99 new relationships but only 1 individual, see where I'm going with this. (I should mention that bands were typically only 12-20 humans historically speaking)
Psychologists have determined that 150 is the absolute limit of people that we consider "people". For instance, the garbageman (unless you know him personally) is not viewed by you as a real person, but rather "make trash go away". Our band minds cannot comprehend 6.5 billion other people. You find in sociology, once this critical number of about 150 is passed (beginning with civilisation), you get chiefs and other such heirarchical emblems.
Today, as always, government is about maintaining the status quo, namely, keeping those above on the heirarchy above, and those below below. Religion has historically been used by government to justify their existance. Religion has just become another way of maintaing the status quo and keeping people in a heirarchical mind pattern.
I don't attach any labels to myself politically. The last time I did that I was technically an anarcho-primitivist, for two minutes, before finding the flaws in even that interpretation. That was about a year ago. As far as anarchy goes, I'm such an anarchist I don't even consider myself one. Hopefully everyone reading this will now know anarchy does not mean chaos. I encourage you to look past the newspeak of the United States Corporate Media and look at what anarchy means to anarchists.
http://www.infoshop.org/faq/index.html
Thats a start. Keep in mind I do not adhere to their philosophy, but I'm astounded at how many people simply don't even know about this option.
As far as Democrat and Republican, they are two faces of the same coin. Does anyone here honestly believe two politcal parties represent the political ideas of 300 million people? Even here in Canada, the electoral reform that may have brought more democracy to our representative parliamentary constitutional monarchy failed, because people were too freakin ignorant to look anything up about it and didn't make the changes needed to get the big three out of their unproportional representation in our Federal and Provincial parliaments.
I volunteered for the Green Party in early October in preperation for the election. Their candidate was a young 24 year old environmental engineer who is bright eyed and busy tailed and had some real ideas. She only got 5,000 votes out of about 50,000 that voted in this riding (90,000 could have voted). More liberal status quo. I only volunteered for the Green Party as part of my therapy, I was told to volunteer for something I believed in. I definitely don't believe in the Green Party, they are simply the lesser of about 5 evils...er parties. When it comes to the real issues of Peak Oil, Climate Collapse, Economic Collapse resulting from these previous two, as well as the law of diminishing returns and the second law of thermodynamics, the Green Party has no freakin' clue. I had many good conversations alone with our riding candidate. She is very intelligent but the problem with specialisation (a requirement for civilisation) is that we get a lot of people that know a lot about nothing.
Being an autodidact, I even do not have a clue about everything. The more you know, the more you know you don't know. etc etc
Party Politics in themselves are inane.
I'm completely disenfranchised from politics now, but that doesn't stop me from being involved and having an opinion, etc.
Odin, blah.
I'll do a write-in vote for John Doe as President...
after all, only smart lawyers have the capability of running this country, and the world.
Nvr: You're full a **!
I'd vote for Oprah!
changeling
