Your political bent

[merithyn]

A conversation at work had me wondering where the people of Languish fall on these things. If you don't identify with any of the above, please explain how you do identify yourself regarding fiscal and social policies.

[Ed Anger]

Fiscally conservative. Usually.

Socially liberal. Mostly.

[Eddie Teach]

Fiscal center-left, civil libertarian

[merithyn]

Fiscal center-left, civil libertarian

Yeah, I realized after I made the poll that I consider myself more of a fiscal moderate than conservative or liberal, probably leaning more left than right. I probably should have put that in there somehow.

[dps]

Hawkish on foreign affairs and defense, moderately conservative on social issues, extremely conservative to reactionary on economic except that I support free trade.

[Neil]

Whiggish.

[mongers]

One nation Tory. 

[Viking]

Fiscal Liberal - I'm for free trade and free markets and against protectionism and mercantilism.
Social Liberal - What you do in the privacy of your own home and who you choose to do with it is not my business.


I take my terminology from John Stuart Mill and Friedrich Hayek, not american B-Movie actors and revival charlatans.

[Tonitrus]

I am still generally conservative/libertarian on fiscal issues, mostly libertarian on social issues.  I've also grown to think that health-care is one of those things that should become an essential government service/infrastructure (like roads, highways, etc).  I don't think we should a total government system like the UK, but more of the hybrid system that Canada has.  Though with Medicare/Medicaid, we have a hybrid system too, it's just ours is more half-assed than hybrid.

Doctors should still be able to run private clinics if they choose, and charge what they like...and while this means the rich will still get better health care, well, face it..the rich get better everything as it is. 

[Queequeg]

Fiscal moderate, social liberal.  I tend to vote straight Democrat, so effective fiscal liberal, social liberal.

[Iormlund]

Fiscal pragmatic, social liberal.

[Sheilbh]

Blairite ultra.

[crazy canuck]

Fiscal Conservative/Social Liberal  like most Canadians not tainted by the NDP

[Sheilbh]

Doctors should still be able to run private clinics if they choose, and charge what they like...and while this means the rich will still get better health care, well, face it..the rich get better everything as it is.

Just to say doctors can do this in the UK and we do have private health insurance.

[Legbiter]

I'm in exile as a stolid social democrat since my local center-right party should be nuked from orbit just to make sure.