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[peppermint]

That's a pretty American centric group of questions you've got there. By 'Merican standards, I'd be a raving lefty, by Canuck standards, I'm somewhat moderate. The thing is though, there isn't much I accept uncritically.

[The Bobster]

[peppermint]

[Justin Hale]

I've come across many far Right Canadians. Whether socialized medicine etc exist in Canada is immaterial really. I want to know what people think, not what exists. Also, I deliberately left out a healthcare question, because hostility to socialized medicine usually means one is a Republican American. Conservatives in other countries often have no desire for an American private system.

Anyway, I've tweeked the OP a little. As we can see, it's comparatively rare for people to be total RW or LW (LW or RW beliefs on all 19). Total conservatism requires having RW beliefs on all 19 and total liberalism requires having LW beliefs on all 19. Many liberals support the war on drugs and believe in God. Many conservatives like me are raving atheists, evolutionists and accept the scientific consensus on climate change uncritically, want to destroy the war on drugs, have no problem with abortion and gay marriage.

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[Justin Hale]

More votes wouldn't go at all amiss here.

[mikeyboy122]

Didn't vote. Stupid post. Atheist. huh? Wish we could speak when you are near death. You'll believe, trust me, you'll believe.

[crash bang]

12 left 5 right 2 undecided

if the iraq question was changed to how i feel about it now, it would be 13 left 4 right

[Bryan]

Religion: LW tend to be atheists and RW to be theists.
Me: I�m an atheist

Evolution: LW tend to accept evolution uncritically and RW tend to criticize evolution.
Me: Haven't really studied it.

Capital punishment: LW tend to be anti-capital punishment, RW tend to be for capital punishment.
Me: Not morally against it, but practically against the possibility of putting an innocent man to death.

Opposition to, criticism and mockery of Islam: RW tend to criticize, mock Islam in opposition to it. LW tend to not, or are even against the criticism, mockery, opposition to Islam.
Me: I am deeply opposed to Islam, especially its most virulent anti-civilization death-worshiping strain. I don't usually "mock" Islam although I am critical of it--and all species of faith including Christianity. It just so happens that many Muslims are as bad as Christians were during the Inquisition.

The state and society: RW tend to support state influence on personal behavior and ethics (marriage, drug-use, abortion) but are hostile to state influence on the economy. LW the opposite.
Me: Hostile to state involvement in any aspect of an individual's life, whether it his wallet or his bedroom. They are intrinsically tied together--men need property to survive and flourish.

The state and the economy: RW tend to favor minimal, if any, state involvement in the economy. LW tend to favor state involvement in the economy such as minimum wage
Me: No state involvement in the economy, since it destroys the economy. Minimum wage creates unemployment and disemployment and does not make anyone richer.

Manmade climate change: RW tend to criticize the scientific consensus (Limbaugh, Buchanan, Coulter, O�Reilly), LW tend to accept the scientific consensus uncritically:
Me: The only scientific "consensus" is that global warming is happening, not that it is anthropocentric nor is there even any idea to what degree it is would be anthropocentric or whether the major causal factor is CO2.

Nuclear energy expansion: RW often favor it (John McCain is the sole presidential candidate to explicitly endorse it), LW tend to believe it is dangerous for several reasons and instead support renewables
Me: Nuclear power is safer and cleaner than anything and allows us to stop paying thugs and murderers for their oil.

Gay marriage: RW tend to be against, LW tend to be for
Me: Don't care.

Abortion: RW tend be against, LW tend to be for
Me: Foetuses are not human beings with individual rights. The only person with rights in the situation of an abortion is the human being involved: the mother.

War on drugs: RW tend to be for, LW tend to be against
Me: For full legalization of all drugs, elimination of the FDA and the creation of a world-leading unregulated private health care market.

Israel and the Palestinians: RW tend to support Israel, LW tend to support the Palestinians.
Me: I support the only civilized state in a sea of barbarians.

Iraq War: RW tended to support the war in 2003, LW tended to be against
Me: Against the Iraq war as it is performed and because Iran has always been the main enemy to defeat.

Nationalism: RW tend to be nationalists, LW tend to oppose nationalism (nationalism, I advocate, is the belief that nations, especially one's own, are superior to others, from 'some others' to perhaps all)
Me: Some nations, namely free ones, are objectively better for human beings to live in and achieve happiness. ie It is objectively better for a human being to live in Australia rather than Zimbabwe.

Patriotism: RW tend to have patriotic feelings (simply loving your own country), LW tend to not have.
Me: I love the US for its founding principles but I'm not an American.

The threat of Islamic terrorism: RW tend to endorse the view that it�s a severe threat, LW tend to disbelieve it is a severe threat.
Me: Obviously there have been thousands murdered and the stated goal of some of these groups is to establish a worldwide caliphate.

Immigration: RW tend to favor immigration on a strictly need-only basis. LW tend to welcome all with open arms
Me: Give us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses. Immigrants aren't destroying the culture; they're more American in spirit than most Americans. It's the university professors in the humanities departments that need deportation. Send them to a 'socialist paradise' like North Korea.

Extensive political reform: RW tend to oppose, LW tend to support
Me: Change everything to the positions I've outlined.

Tolerance: LW tend to endorse universal tolerance, RW tends to be intolerant
Me: I don't know what this means. I do not "tolerate" things that are abjectly evil--that would be a monumental injustice. For example, if Hitler was murdering Jews I would not call that a "cultural opinion that everyone is entitled to have."

[Justin Hale]

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