Beyond Parties: What are you?

[MTZehvor]

Leadified said:

MTZehvor said:
I think the poll options should be changed to "Fiscal and Social Conservative, Fiscal and Social Liberal, Fiscal Conservative and Social Liberal, etc." We're only answering for half the equation as it stands currently, unless you choose the Libertarian or Moderate options.

Anyway, on topic, I'm pretty all over the place. I definitely lean libertarian on most issues, but on the areas that I disagree with libertarian thought, I disagree so drastically that I don't think I could ever realistically call myself libertarian (removing government from healthcare, for instance). Perhaps the easiest way to describe my viewpoint would be: keep the government out unless it stands to genuinely improve things in a way that cannot be accomplished otherwise.

I don't think people fit so neatly into political definitions as we would like to think, most people probably have mixed views all around, and people often hold contradictory or fluid beliefs anyways. Fiscal liberal is a huge contradiction in itself because it implies left wing economic view points but fiscal liberalism refers to capitalism. It becomes even more confusing when you then throw in neoliberalism which in-fact considered is fiscally conservative. I think these definitions are way too black and white.

I agree wholeheartedly, which is why I support a greater variety of options. Attempting to divide all subsections of political views into four neat categories is never going to be particularly accurate, but we can attempt to make it as accurate as possible.