Forum Post: Who is here?
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 8, 2011, 9:47 p.m. EST by Fraqtive42
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from Herndon, VA
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Who here is participating in the Occupy Movement? Comment and give your political orientation.
I'm a Democratic Socialist.
Moderate capitalist, center-left individualist Democrat. I do believe in a system based primarily around free enterprise because it can and does work. However, I also believe that such a system needs an active and involved government and a comprehensive regulatory environment so that corporate success lifts up the American people rather than taking place at their expense.
So you support more of a mixed economy/welfare state?
Yes, I do. I don't necessarily want a planned/command economy, but I do feel like government regulation and the possibility of a public option helps keep corporations honest. I also feel that we as a nation have a moral duty to look out for the less fortunate among us, and that while our current system of welfare may not be perfect cutting into it further is not the answer.
I definitely agree. That is what many Republicans are currently trying to do, which angers me.
Any communists here?
Libertarian
Socially or economically, or both?
Whoops. Socially libertarian, economically conservative
I see. This is what most people would describe me as, too.
I am 1/2 mobile vulgaris and 1/2 Ochlocracy
Structural Anarchist with a penchant for modular forms.