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What's PPR's bend?
Far Right Bend 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
Rightwing Bend 18%  18%  [ 7 ]
Centre-Right Bend 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Centrist Bend 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Radical Centrist Bend 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Centre-Left Bend 13%  13%  [ 5 ]
Leftwing-Bend 23%  23%  [ 9 ]
Far Left Bend 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
Syncreticist Bend? 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Extremist Bend (any direction) 18%  18%  [ 7 ]
Undecided 5%  5%  [ 2 ]
Other (write in thread) 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
Total votes : 39

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21 Oct 2010, 4:04 pm

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And they wore wigs, too.

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Polecats in hats sat in sacks, chewed the fat, signed an act? Modernity must settle for that.


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21 Oct 2010, 5:43 pm

Fuzzy wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
And they wore wigs, too.

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Polecats in hats sat in sacks, chewed the fat, signed an act? Modernity must settle for that.


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21 Oct 2010, 6:44 pm

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And still we find a descent into pointless generalism. (And not a little bit of the cult of personality.)

The authors of the U.S. Constitution were not a monolithic bloc representing a single political view. They were a bunch of political representatives thrown together like ferrets in a bag, and the exercised the first, best skill of the politician to reach a result: compromise.

If the Founders stand for any political principle it is that principle must always bend to the practical. "They" were neither conservative nor liberal, they were pragmatists.

They also had to cut a few back-room deals behind closed doors. The deals involved God and Satan along with a few liberal hollywood celebrities and conservative media moguls from the future. It all worked out in the end though.



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21 Oct 2010, 8:42 pm

Basically 'far-right' is a term used by lefties to mean anyone who's opinions they disapprove of.

So consider UKIP in there too probably as we are:

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So that's us shafted then.



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21 Oct 2010, 9:52 pm

Tequila wrote:
Basically 'far-right' is a term used by lefties to mean anyone who's opinions they disapprove of.

So consider UKIP in there too probably as we are:

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So that's us shafted then.


Haha!! ! You're making me want to move to the UK, now. How's the real estate market in Bath?



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22 Oct 2010, 12:30 am

Tequila wrote:
Basically 'far-right' is a term used by lefties to mean anyone who's opinions they disapprove of.

So consider UKIP in there too probably as we are:

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So that's us shafted then.


UKIP's textbook combination of anti-immigrant scapegoating and demagoguery make it a perfect example of far-right extremism.


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22 Oct 2010, 2:02 am

Someone should create a website that classifies political candidates by their policies not by party affiliation or by what they have identified as. but by what actions they have taken while serving their governments. I would do it myself but I'm lazy and too busy with school to be bothered by all the research I would have to do. Of course it would have to be transparent, I also don't know how it would be implemented to reduce interference from the political parties themselves. any ideas?



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22 Oct 2010, 2:35 am

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and modern conservatives support limited government in our time.

No they don't. That's a myth, and you only help them plunder the country by playing along with their little game.


Indeed, by branding the numerous policy tools they use to redistribute income upwards the Con Artists have ascribed a "naturalness" to structural social inequalities.


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22 Oct 2010, 2:43 am

Master_Pedant wrote:
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marshall wrote:
and modern conservatives support limited government in our time.

No they don't. That's a myth, and you only help them plunder the country by playing along with their little game.


Indeed, by branding the numerous policy tools they use to redistribute income upwards the Con Artists have ascribed a "naturalness" to structural social inequalities.


Down with the Patricians! Death to the Bourgeoisies! Vive le Revolucion!





... Somewhere in that vicinity?



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22 Oct 2010, 2:48 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Master_Pedant wrote:
Orwell wrote:
marshall wrote:
and modern conservatives support limited government in our time.

No they don't. That's a myth, and you only help them plunder the country by playing along with their little game.


Indeed, by branding the numerous policy tools they use to redistribute income upwards the Con Artists have ascribed a "naturalness" to structural social inequalities.


Down with the Patricians! Death to the Bourgeoisies! Vive le Revolucion!





... Somewhere in that vicinity?


There's a difference between outright revolution and not propping up existing corporations and strengthening their market power through various state interventions. If you must know, the socioeconomic model I admire most would probably be some mixture of the Nordic Model (globalization with the retraining of displaced workers into new fields) with elements of the Saxon Model (i.e. Unions have a say in the corporate boards), spliced with a stronger cooperative sector and laws that make it easier work workers to buyout a company.


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22 Oct 2010, 3:09 am

Master_Pedant wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Master_Pedant wrote:
Orwell wrote:
marshall wrote:
and modern conservatives support limited government in our time.

No they don't. That's a myth, and you only help them plunder the country by playing along with their little game.


Indeed, by branding the numerous policy tools they use to redistribute income upwards the Con Artists have ascribed a "naturalness" to structural social inequalities.


Down with the Patricians! Death to the Bourgeoisies! Vive le Revolucion!





... Somewhere in that vicinity?


There's a difference between outright revolution and not propping up existing corporations and strengthening their market power through various state interventions. If you must know, the socioeconomic model I admire most would probably be some mixture of the Nordic Model (globalization with the retraining of displaced workers into new fields) with elements of the Saxon Model (i.e. Unions have a say in the corporate boards), spliced with a stronger cooperative sector and laws that make it easier work workers to buyout a company.


Existing corporations are certainly not in need of extra money, as per stimulus packages, from the government. I think that when some businesses reach a certain point, whether they qualify exactly as a monopoly or just an oligopoly with barely any competition, such as Wal-Fart, they ought to have a lot more hassle in order to continue spreading like a disease so as to allow smaller businesses a chance to survive.

However, you agreed with Orwell that conservatives do not support limited government, seemingly, on the grounds that they support big business. If you want to limit the buggerly businesses, you then need to supersize some of the government rather than limit government.



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22 Oct 2010, 3:19 am

Tea Party conservatives are the pro limited government, next would be the paleoconservatives who believe in limited government, and the neoconservatives use big government for their own purposes.


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22 Oct 2010, 8:38 am

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Haha!! ! You're making me want to move to the UK, now. How's the real estate market in Bath?


I haven't a clue. I live in a small rural northern town.



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22 Oct 2010, 2:54 pm

Master_Pedant wrote:
Tequila wrote:
Basically 'far-right' is a term used by lefties to mean anyone who's opinions they disapprove of.

So consider UKIP in there too probably as we are:

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So that's us shafted then.


UKIP's textbook combination of anti-immigrant scapegoating and demagoguery make it a perfect example of far-right extremism.


Aren't you thinking of the BNP?


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28 Oct 2010, 12:06 am

I took a poll here on which religion (if any) people on WP followed, and the result was about 55% atheistic. Because in my experience atheists tend to be more liberal, this sugggests a slight leftwing slant.

I identify myself as a non-traditional conservative.


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28 Oct 2010, 12:32 am

ChrisVulcan wrote:
I took a poll here on which religion (if any) people on WP followed, and the result was about 55% atheistic. Because in my experience atheists tend to be more liberal, this sugggests a slight leftwing slant.

I identify myself as a non-traditional conservative.


However, it seems that, on this board at least, there's a considerable overlap between the strident atheists and the strident Randian libertarians. There is no God and I don't want to pay no damn taxes for them damned welfare leeches! Bah humbug!