As agnostics and atheists I'm just interested to see if there is a general political alignment.
Right now I'm totally leaning towards the Green Party. Peace! People! Planet!
I often wind up voting dem because they tend to promote and support issues I see as being critical.
Where do the financially conservative and socially liberal reside anymore? I use to consider myself libertarian (ok, rational libertarian - but that’s a whole other discussion) but even that party appears to be commandeered by the evangelicals these days.
I think you'd be a Democrat, even if you don't believe in the overall leadership of the party. Only two presidents have ever balanced the budget and both were Democrats. Republicans have been shown to increase spending and debt, mainly via the wars they decide to create as a way of paying off their cronies and buddies in the military and supplying the military. Obviously socially liberal has to be the Democrats. I wish there was a powerful third party, but I don't see this happening anytime soon.
I'm a lifelong Democrat. I've voted for Republicans at times and I'm not blind to the faults of prominent Democrats.
Sadly the Republican party has become the party of stupidity, nastiness and dishonesty. When they gave Limbaugh power over them years ago they set themselves up to be the sleaziest party imaginable.
So true! That Republicans run on fiscal-responsibility and family values is beyond a joke and utterly hypocritical. If we need to explain this to anyone, then you haven't been studying politics.
I don't like to be categorized, but if I have to pick one of the above, it would be Democrat.
I am a registered Dem so that I can vote in the primary. In addition, in a two party system (I didn't invent it) we need to pressure the Dems to keep going towards a progressive agenda. Of course I do not agree with everything, but that is the nature of politics. No one has to explain to me as to how big money is involved, with all of the parties listed, but not registering or not voting, or casting a protest vote when the Supreme court is in danger of being lost, is just foolish in my opinion.
I voted Sanders in the primary and Clinton in the election.
In the state of Washington, voters don't affiliate with a political party, as we have open primaries.
I identify most with the Democratic Socialists in Northern Europe, but when I lived in states where you registered your party (California & Oregon), I registered as democrat to vote in the primaries. For a while i was registered with the Green Party, but again I wanted to have a voice in the primaries, so I registered as democrat.
In Australia the equivalent is the Labor party. It's a broad church of political views but it mainly relies on science and evidence based policy formulation. The liberal and national party coalition which is in government are very similar to the Republicans and run an idiological policy formulation that prefers neolibrilism. I say vote the neolibril regressive conservative maniacs out!
So, your Labour party must be something like the NDP here in Canada, a party of labour, progressives and socialists that excepts people as people are, is that correct?.
I vote party line except for presidential races where I vote for the best candidate.
I have no party loyal so will vote for best candidate and best party every time. That just happens to be Democrat at the moment. I would love to see the creation of a strong middle-of-the-road third party here in the USA.
I would like to. If I had time to investigate every candidate, I would, but for the most part State Govener and president are all I have time for. I vote city and other state rep. based on the party line because I don't have the time or energy