Your Political Party/Views

#21

As long as big monies are contributing to politicians’ campaigns, you’re going to have them bowing to those interests. This crap happened when a clerk in the Supreme Court (not an actual justice) created fictional people with the rights of actual people (i.e. “corporations” or “legal persons”).

I think only human beings (born members of the Homo sapiens species) should be considered “people” under the law and, as such, PACs, corporations, and other groupings would not be able to contribute any money to politicians’ monetary chests.

Also, I believe that politicians, if they’re going to run for office, should be given a stipend from the taxpayers for campaigning purposes (and that stipend can only be used for campaigning and no private money may be used) and only the person running for office can campaign.

That would go a LONG* way to helping clear up the shit that’s happening right now.

But that ain’t going to happen.

#22

have a feeling a bakery might catch fire again in london, oh, what a shame.

#23

I didn’t even read anything on this thread because I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it a few hundred times before. I would just like to say that I am neither right winged, or left winged. Continuing with the metaphor I have two equally pretty and functional wings. Thus I can fly while everyone with only one wing is spiraling to the wonderfully attractive ground.

In essence, I am chicken winged.

#24

In a divided country like Belgium, where we basically have 4 different communities (Flanders (Dutch), Walloons (French), East Cantons (German) and Brussels (Dutch/French), I only get to vote for the community I live in, being Flanders.

Over here we don’t have the “easy” choice of either Republican or Democrat (and a few individuals that are never mentioned anyway). So what we have is a wider spectrum of parties to vote for. We don’t really vote for specific politicians, but for the party as a whole, individual votes for specific people merely indicates the popularity of a certain person so that he may get a bigger role in a newly formed government. I for one never voted for a specific person and just voted for a party.

The parties the Flemish people can vote for, from extreme right on top to extreme left on bottom, are:

Right:
[COLOR=‘Sienna’]Vlaams Belang (Extreme nationalistic. Anti Belgium, anti Europe)
[COLOR=‘MediumTurquoise’]LDD (Nationalistic, nobody really knows what they want, they’re just angry)
[COLOR=‘Yellow’]N-VA (Nationalistic. Anti Belgium, pro Europe)

Center:
[COLOR=‘Orange’]CD&V (Conservative, Christian, Democratic)
[COLOR=‘RoyalBlue’]VLD (Liberal, Democratic)

Left:
[COLOR=‘Red’]SP.A (Socialistic, Democratic)
[COLOR=‘YellowGreen’]Groen! (Progressive, Green)
[COLOR=‘DarkRed’]PVDA+ (Communist)

And then a whole lot of additional smaller, local parties, as well as hoax-parties.

Last elections, N-VA won with 1.1 million votes, compared to 700,00 of the second biggest party (CD&V). Do keep in mind, this is Flanders only. In the Walloons, the PS won (a socialist party). So now a right party has to sit down with a left party to figure out the best way to make a deal so everybody can be happy. Obviously this isn’t working, and as a result Belgium has been government-less for about half a year now.

Odds are we’ll have new elections soon because this is going nowhere.

Anyway, now that is over with, the party I voted for this time around was Groen! (the Progressive, green party), and will do so again if we get new elections. I’ve always been rather left in my believes (opposite of the center-right mindset of most of my family), and before last elections I always voted for the socialist party (SP.A). But this time around I felt that we needed to vote for communication between the different communities in Belgium, and I felt that the SP.A just wanted to point fingers rather than sit around and talk.

Add to that the fact that I’m pretty environment-orientated and would like the government to invest more in green energy, better public transportation and multi-cultural development, instead of worrying about which community is lazier than the other, and you get a package that aligns well with the program of Groen!.

#25

In my country, Thailand, seem that the political system is fall apart.
Politician has been corrupting since it was ‘Tom Yum Kung’ crisis, 2000.
Thaksin, our world-class notorious politician, has begun the fucking color-shirt war. As happen on the late April, the red shirt has burnt away Bangkok city, fuck.

#26

Well, in Norway, (I always have to make a reference to that) we have to chose either:
*The retards we have now (Rød-grønn regjering: Arbeider partiet, Senter partiet and Sosialistisk Venstre)
*Some racists (Fremskritts partiet) teamed up with a conservative party who mostly are against their partners (Høyre)
*And some religious guys (Kristelig folkeparti) that almost is not religious anymore and is in the middle of choosing between joining one of the two alternatives above.
*Also a farmer-party that was supposed to be on the same “team” as “Kristelig folkeparti”, but they got so little votes that nobody cares (Venstre).

Use Google translate to translate the names of the parties!

#27

personally im dedicated heart + soul to the principles of Juche

#28

I’m partial to a society that revolves on a total free market economy where the main goals are social status and entertainment. You only get capital punishment for murder if it is not done craftily, if not at least cinematically.

As for real politics, I could not care less.

#29

“You would’ve gotten the chair for killing those four people, but you flawlessly constructed and executed a Ravenholm-style system to drop a car on them, so that has to count for something, right?”

#30

they use half the voltage for half the time. If you live, they don’t try again.

#31

for me I don’t trust governments and such, not that I will turn on my own someday, but I really wish that I could see one single “HONEST” politician.

#32

“Honest” politicians are voted out or impeached before they can do any real ‘damage’.

#33

am afraid I really didn’t understand what you meant

#34

Politicians that are honest invariably don’t make it.

#35

none whatsoever.

#36

sadly

#37

I hope this thread isn’t considered dead yet, because I find topics like these very interesting. I apologize if anybody considers this necroing.

I am an anarcho-communist. I believe many of the tenants of Communism can work, but only under the anti-authoritarian watch of an Anarchist society. I think Lenin was a smart guy who some great ideas, but also had many bad ones. In particular I find problems with the Cheka and the way saboteurs (or, as it was mostly, suspected saboteurs) were handled, as well as his distaste for free-thinking leftists (he thought left communism was bullshit. wat), and how anybody who owned a piece of machinery or a piece of land was considered a threat. I find that the writing of Nietzsche can easily be applied to a political ideology. I believe the “best” (although, probably impossible barring a major catastrophe, or possibly a small off-the-grid community) form of human “government” would be primitive communism, as outlined by Karl Marx.

#38

Oh yeah I’m gonna post my political alignment in a nerd forum on the internet, where it will stay forever, for everyone to read. That sounds like a really smart idea. Surely free and secret voting was just invented by paranoids for no reason whatsoever…

#39

haha i don’t give a damn about politics actually

#40

Of course you don’t. And then something bad happens to you due to a weird law or whatever and you’ll be the first one to jump the barricades and charge into revolution.

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