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Are you left or right wing?

Left 66 51.56%
 
Right 62 48.44%
 
Total:128

Just to the right of Ghengis Khan.



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I'm most likely a lefty. Even though I write with my right.



Kantor said:
The two terms can have so many different meanings, it's impossible to really tell.

But going by the common definition of left being large government and right being small government, I'm right-wing.

Really isn't, though. The "Right" wing in most OECD countries is more like "small government on fiscal matters (except defense), big government on social matters (except guns)."

As such, left and right are really about promoting different ways of life more than specific policy matters: a social-democratic society where excesses of wealth are used to insure equal access to certain goods and people are free to pursue non-hateful beliefs and live any non-exploitative lifestyle they desire, vs: a corporate-capitalist society where excesses of wealth are used to generate more wealth and overall prosperity is met through abundance of opportunity through economic freedoms, where people are incentivized to continue following the norms that have built society to date.

Libertarianism is an ideal about the role of government as a whole, rather than a promotion of a certain life-way



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Mr Khan said:
Kantor said:
The two terms can have so many different meanings, it's impossible to really tell.

But going by the common definition of left being large government and right being small government, I'm right-wing.

Libertarianism is an ideal about the role of government as a whole, rather than a promotion of a certain life-way

I'd actually disagree. Libertarianism is a moral philosophy. The basis being the non-Agression principle and self-ownership with the derived conclusions being property rights, decentralized power systems, etc, etc. So in a way, it is a promotion of a lifestyle, one which all persons adhere to the non-agression axiom and its derivations as well as one in which all persons agree with the ideal of self-ownership. Even if the state were not to exist (an anarchic society) libertarianism would still exist. That is also why capitalist libertarians oppose corporatism (which doesn't exist without government) just as much as socialists. 

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/libertarianism/



centre left, but im keen as a bean on the sharemarket and what its all about so probably smack in the middle. I think from both sides in everything i do.



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Ehhh, I'm more of breast, leg and thigh kind of guy m'self.



It seems from the poll that more are right wing here. On the Political Compass test, I am -5.88 left/right wing (which means left wing), and -6.26 Libertarian/Authoritarian (which means libertarian).



Right wing.



Extreme views in both directions that average out to centrist.



Gamegears said:
I am a Libertarian... so neither..


libertarian vote for (r)ight wing candidates