Which political figure do you most closely identify with politically?

Discussion in 'History' started by Norsefire, Sep 6, 2008.

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Which political figure do you ideologically fit with?

  1. Karl Marx

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    35.7%
  2. Adolf Hitler

    4 vote(s)
    28.6%
  3. Mike Huckabee

    2 vote(s)
    14.3%
  4. Bill Clinton

    3 vote(s)
    21.4%
  5. the Papacy or other religious leaders

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  1. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    see norsefire you have left me a huge problem.

    as a sociological theory, its hard to argue against marxisum. very few control the wealth and a very large percentage slave away for very little reward. the US is a perfect example of this

    however as a system communisium didnt work and we never got to the post communist stage Marx talked about so no one knows if that would work either

    as a polly Clinton was great but he was no where near far enough to the left on SOCIAL issues that he should be, partually because the US as a culture is to far to the right. He also dropped the idea of universal health care when he should have pushed it harder because its good for the people
     
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  3. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Marxism isn't that great. I mean, I can be called a socialist, but I also believe in the free market. However I used to be a capitalist purist.

    Asguard why don't you like laissez faire capitalism?
     
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  5. Thoreau Valued Senior Member

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    You also use to be Muslim, Jewish, and Christian. (just pickin on ya cuz i have nothing better to do right now)

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  7. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Not Jewish
     
  8. Kadark Banned Banned

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    There aren't enough poll options.

    Anyway, I chose Hitler.


    Kadark
     
  9. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    As did I. I may not be an anti Semite racist, but as for his ideas on government and order, I can't agree more.
     
  10. Thoreau Valued Senior Member

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    As I did.
     
  11. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Truly?


    Anyway, people can't think well for themselves; most are uncritical and weak minded, and that is why we need strong leaders.
     
  12. Thoreau Valued Senior Member

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    Yep. And I agree to a point.
     
  13. Asguard Kiss my dark side Valued Senior Member

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    because its ultimate extention is a reintroduction of slavery

    "power corupts and aposlute power corupts apslolutly"

    even ethically minded companies would be drawn into unethical practices as costs were considrably higher for the ethical company vs the unecthical one.

    the enviroment would be the first trashed but eventually it would be sociaty as a whole, if communisisum was bad this would be worse. actually it would mean the end of sociaty as a whole because this sort of policy would have to flow into other area's like criminal law which would then become a commodity in itself.

    I belive in goverment under law and have no desire to return to a fedual sociaty where people are treated as chattle
     
  14. Pandaemoni Valued Senior Member

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    You be better off, for all its faults, using the politicalcompass.org test than relying on those five as somehow representative of all political thought. Besides that what's the difference between "left/right" and "liberal/conservative" to most people those are two sets are synonyms. I also don't see the Pope as especially theocratic, since the nation he rules has virtually no population and all the people who are there are there voluntarily and tend to "move home" after a few years.

    You might even be better is you just said "Are you politically most inclined towards the left wing, the right wing, a theocracy...?" etc. I tend to be all over the placve in my thinking. On some issues I am left, on some right, on some neither.
     
  15. desi Valued Senior Member

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    George Carlin should be on the list.
     
  16. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    Where do you place theocracy on the left/right spectrum?
     
  17. tim840 Registered Senior Member

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    "How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think. "
    -Adolf Hitler

    Hmm... kinda true, but not true enough that I would abandon democracy. Never!!!
     
  18. tim840 Registered Senior Member

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    heh heh that guy is hilarious. i have heard a couple of them before... like the fruit flies and the book in the dog
     
  19. Norsefire Salam Shalom Salom Registered Senior Member

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    A democratic totalitarian state = ideal. The people have absolute power over themselves, exercised via an executive.
     
  20. Facial Valued Senior Member

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    Karl Marx.
     
  21. tim840 Registered Senior Member

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    Sounds a bit like the French Revolution. Yuck... who wants another reign of terror?
     

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