What is your political identification?

[XemaSab]

Poll question: What is your political identification?

:shrug:

I'm not asking what you're registered as, I'm asking where your sympathies generally lie.

[ellisonz]

1. The Democratic party as a whole represents me and me interests

:dem:

[limpyhobbler]

16. independent leftist, nt

[ellisonz]

39. Welcome to the DUh

:donut:

[Blue_In_AK]

2. I'm just an old hippie.

I think of myself as a libertarian socialist.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. I lean socialist over the other options

[Scuba]

I'm an amalgam of several of your choices...

... I describe myself as being pro-labor, but wouldn't think of myself as part of a labor party.

I'm for more social services funding, but don't think of myself as a socialist.

I'm for greatly reduced spending, but don't think of myself as a fiscal conservative, because I want the reduction to come from defense.



I'd call myself far-left, except I believe that way too many People feel much the same as I do.

[Scuba]

4. I'm an amalgam of several of your choices...

... I describe myself as being pro-labor, but wouldn't think of myself as part of a labor party.

I'm for more social services funding, but don't think of myself as a socialist.

I'm for greatly reduced spending, but don't think of myself as a fiscal conservative, because I want the reduction to come from defense.



I'd call myself far-left, except I believe that way too many People feel much the same as I do.

[Odin2005]

5. Socialist.

[mmonk]

6. Normal.

I believe today, it is called socialist.

[HappyMe]

7. Dem party as a whole represents me & my interests.

[T S Justly]

8. Anti-fascist, like Occupy...

Didn't see it in the polls. So, I didn't vote. Again.

[XemaSab]

32. Hence the "none of the above" option

:)

[T S Justly]

38. Thanks ...

:thumbsup:

[OKNancy]

9. realist, pragmatic liberal

I support the Democratic party because I am realistic about how politics works.

[TheWraith]

36. Well spoken, and same here. nt

[GliderGuider]

10. My sympathies are literally with "None Of The Above"

That's how I mark my ballots.

I'm intensely "progressive" (whatever you think that means), but I tend to regard politics as a social-compliance tool of the 1%, more often part of the problem than part of the solution.

[Marrah_G]

11. Socialist

[Starry Messenger]

12. Socialist.

[trof]

13. Neither party (D or R) represents our interests any more.

They represent $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
And that's a fact.
:-(

[PeaceNikki]

14. Proud Wisconsin Democrat.

[TheManInTheMac]

15. People's Front of Judea

[JoePhilly]

37. Splitter!!!!

[geardaddy]

48. ...

:rofl:

[TheManInTheMac]

56. If you want to join the P.F.J, you've got to really HATE the Romans.

[JoePhilly]

60. "All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine ...

... public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? "

[Upton]

17. All I know is..

neither of the two major parties represent my interests...as I oppose the drug war, oppose foreign intervention, and am not part of the 1%..

[trumad]

18. Is this drug wear?

[Upton]

19. Do you dress like that during the day..

or just at night?

[trumad]

20. Just riffing on your now edited post

what--you not going to thank me?

[Enthusiast]

55. Oh, baby!

[bigtree]

21. DDD

Dead Dog Democrat

[dembotoz]

22. as i have been officially told i am too pro choice for the local dem party

i guess socialist would fit best

but i don't know.....

[Magoo48]

23. Go to left field, turn left, climb the wall, keep walking...I'm out there...somewhere...

[Le Taz Hot]

24. Other - Decline to State

It's is a classification in California (and the fastest growing one at that). I vote for the candidate, not the party and if all the candidates are equally disgusting (as is often the case), I write in a name.

[a la izquierda]

25. Socialist.

And Proud. I wish I could vote for Bernie Sanders.

[FarCenter]

26. Socially libertarian, economically conservative, foreign policy non-interventionist

[Lyric]

27. Socialist.

Nice to see that there are so many other socialists here.

:hi:

[Puzzledtraveller]

28. maybe they can change the name to Socialist Underground

[ensho]

29. feminist before anything else

I joke I came out of my mother's womb a feminist reading a book

[XemaSab]

33. Good call

:thumbsup:

[socialist_n_TN]

30. Revolutionary socialist or Bolshevik-Leninist

I'm a Trotskyist. So I picked other.

[Edweird]

31. Left of the current DLC/thrid way/republican lite bullshit being trotted out as 'Dem'.

[Taverner]

34. Socialist REPRESENT!!!!

[saras]

35. Political non-Euclidian. I reject the possibility of the left-right spectrum describing reality.

The enlightenment exposed the political "right" as the lust for inappropriate power over others that it was, but it was their primary opponent, and historically more powerful, giving the illusion of a binary opposition.

They were exposed again by the postwar social sciences, which were uncovering in detail reality's unavoidable liberal bias, which is why they have been suppressed and replaced by pomo theorizing and pharmaceutical psychology.

I suspect that neurobiology is soon going to discover that "right-wing" is more of a defect in brain function than a legitimate political position, for the third time.

We'll see whether three times is a charm.

In general, I imagine the political world as a (potentially) infinite plane, with big piles of people where the 'popular' positions are. The only binaries I see are people in one pile arguing about whether they're higher or lower than someone else in their pile, or arguing about whether their pile or some other pile is "better", which is defined in an obscure way having to do mostly with how tall the pile is, rather than involving the well-being of those in the middle of the pile.

And the 'plane' is not a Euclidian plane, but more likely a complexly connected topological object with multiple holes and twists.

The people I disagree with the least usually call themselves "progressives", but that doesn't mean that most progressives share my values - just that more of them do than most other groups, except perhaps socialist anarchists.

[Papagoose]

40. I refer to myself to anyone who asks as a "Liberal who generally votes Democratic"

Not that I find the Democratic Party all that Liberal, but it is the party with a shot at winning that most closely matches my beliefs.

[bobthedrummer]

41. Socialist w/o a viable Party

RECALL WALKER/KLEEFISCH!!!

[me b zola]

42. A good follow up question would be:

If you checked socialist, would you have checked that in 2007 or would you have checked "Dem"? I can only speak for me, but in 2007 I would have checked "Dem".

[Starry Messenger]

46. +1

Same here.

[TriMera]

51. In 2007 I would have checked "Dem", also. eom

[Hell Hath No Fury]

54. Likewise.

After 2004 I hung on to "Dem" for old times sake, but the last election did it for me. I am now simply a liberal/socialist looking for the candidate who I feel best represents me and works towards what I feel is best for the country.

[XemaSab]

61. .

:thumbsup:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2438825

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

43. Anarchist/Pacifist/ non-conformist/cynic

Which all seem to fit together.

[11 Bravo]

44. Every time I need to remind myself that no matter how much I love this place ...

it AIN'T representative of that mix of progressives and pragmatists who want to deny power to the Republican Party; a poll like this shows up to remind me. Socialists? 42%? Yeah, that's going to win a shit-load of elections. Fuck, that will help us increase our Senate majority and probably take back the House!

[socialist_n_TN]

62. You realize that you might be fighting the last war don't you?

I've been posting here for only 3 years. The first poll like this that I saw showed about 25% to 30% socialist of one stripe or another. IOW, everything from democratic socialist to commie polled at MOST 30%. And I was THRILLED! I'd never seen a place with that large of a contingent of self avowed socialists. It's gradually gone up from this (personal) baseline to over 40%. And I'd BET that a lot of the "other" category are even more left than the Dem Socs.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that even this centrist board has become MUCH more left in three short years. And if you want more proof that red baiting is losing it's sting, take a look at Luntz's latest talking points memo. He doesn't even want the Republican candidates to use the word "capitalism" because of it's negative connotations. People are waking up and losing their fear of the "s" word and capitalism's positives are going in the crapper.

And if you think it's bad now, wait ANOTHER three years. The best recruiter for out and out Marxism is a capitalist.

[nc4bo]

45. I'm beginning to realize that I am a flaming Socialist.

When compared to most Dems, I'm far out in left field, near the foul line perhaps over it.

[LanternWaste]

47. I'm not really sure anymore.

I'm not really sure anymore.

According to my very conservative friends, I'm a "damn socialist". According to my non-conservative friends, I'm a Yellow Dog, and according to my fellow parishioners, I'm a moderate. However, according to me, all three of the above may be valid depending on what the issue is.

So I guess at the end of the day, I'm simply a Democrat-- registered and otherwise...

[hifiguy]

49. Democratic socialist on economic issues

leaning libertarian on civil liberties. Overall a democratic socialist in the Scandinavian sense.

[TriMera]

50. Socialist. n/t

[DevonRex]

52. I am a Democrat. Nt

[ROFF]

53. This poll

kinda puts a lie to the idea that this is The Democratic Underground. Maybe this forum should be renamed The Socialist Underground.

Maybe, maybe not.

If i were Skinner, I would give it some thought.

[Puregonzo1188]

57. Peace and Freedom is a self-described socialist party fyi.

[Luminous Animal]

58. Anarcho-syndicalist.

[KamaAina]

59. Green Dog Dem

I'm all in favor of the two-party system, as long as the two parties are Dem and Green (or P&F), with the repukes banned like the Nazi party is in Germany. In that case, I'd be your basic middle-of-the-road swing voter. :-)