we previously had this thread but it was lost in a sitewide crash. kind of fortuitous, given all the new people!
anyways, i’m interested in how you describe yourself politically but also why you do so, and/or how you came to the beliefs that you did. be as brief or lengthy as you want in answering that.
additionally, as a preface: i would like this to be a generally non-judgemental thread and i think this community is more than capable of that, so please respect that idea.[1] in general, you are not obliged to justify to myself or anyone else why you believe what you do.
exceptions, obviously, go for bigotry or intolerant beliefs that would be otherwise incompatible with the community’s ethos. bluntly if you’re a transphobe or something like that this is not the community for you. ↩︎
Unique answer here but I don’t think it’s important in the current US political climate to define myself specifically.
All I know or need to know is that the answer to me seems to be left of where we are currently at. Makes my voting easy.
now that the website isn’t in five alarm fire mode i can inquire a little further of people, so!
what would you say are the most significant policies right now where you think the consensus should be more to the left (especially that you think can eventually be accomplished with voting in the right people)? i’m sure i can guess most of these but sometimes people surprise me
I think that the obvious ones are obvious. I think that rights for lgbtq people are possible to settle in the immediate future. Abortion too. Those big issues are major reasons that the right has become largely unpalatable for people in general.
The most major reason for me is that the difference in wealth is growing. And I think many voters on the right would agree with that but haven’t identified that the right is for the rich getting richer. So while I don’t believe the democrats will fix much, it needs to be a race between them and a more left leaning party.