What kind of 'Democrat' are you?

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[IrateCitizen]

1. Wow! Socialist Dems in the HIZZLE!!!

I'm the kind of Democrat who rejects market fundamentalism and advocates re-establishment of the commons and everything that goes along with it (civic involvement, community, gift economies, cooperation and collaboration, etc.).

In today's world, that kind of attitude makes me a socialist.

[JohnKleeb]

2. somewhere in between the lines of a FDR dem and socialist

but, I call and consider myself a democrat, and if I ever ran for political office, I'd run as a democrat.

[shawn703]

3. What's the difference between an anarchist and a Libertarian?

If the Libertarians took control, wouldn't we have anarchy?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Anarchism and "anarchy" aren't interchangeable.

And, Libertarianism (in the American sense) is more like Objectivism or Laissez-Faire capitalism while Anarchism is communitarian.

As for Libertarianism producing anarchy if installed, it would be more like a giant Autarky with the corporations and capitalists in control and the rest allowed to be worker ants.

[MsTryska]

4. where does.....

fiscal conservative/social liberal/control of big business belong?


wait. can i be a teddy roosevelt republican?

[sangh0]

5. A "non-DLC" New Democrat

As much as I admire FDR and his policies, they are not up to challenges we face today. However, I do admire the principles that motivated him, principles I think New Dems and FDR-style Dems share.

[Larkspur]

6. I'm a Dean Democrat -- fiscal conservative, social progressive

[Bjornsdotter]

13. I Love your sticker!!!!

...love it, love it, love it!

Cheers,
Kim :toast:

[goodhue]

7. A FDR dem is a socialist dem, really.

I consider myself both.

I think Kucinich put in best when speaking to the DNC in February 2003:

http://www.kucinich.us/speeches/speech12.htm

U.S. Representative Dennis J. Kucinich
Candidate, Democratic Nomination
President of the United States
The Democratic National Committee
Washington, DC
Saturday, February 22, 2003

* * *

We Democrats must remember who we are. We must remember where we came from. We must sound the trumpet and call all Americans back to the party of the people. We are the party of Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society. We are the party of John F. Kennedy and the New Frontier. We are the party of FDR and the New Deal. We are the party of the people. We are the Party whose president faced a broken nation, a nation of people without jobs, without homes, without health care, without retirement security and he exhorted them to have courage.

Seventy years ago, FDR stood before a fearful nation and said: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," And ignited a nation to reaching its promise. It brought one hundred new democrats into the House. It enabled a sweeping mandate to bring deep, transformational change to our social, economic and political structure. It remade government for the people. That kind of change is needed today. We can empower a new beginning today. Democrats I remind you today we have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Today we need a new faith in America, and in ourselves. Faith that we can change the present condition. Faith that we can change the outcome. Faith that we can regain the confidence, the optimism which the whole world has identified with America. Faith that it is the Democratic party that can once again lead the way to a better day, to a better America, to a better world.

Democrats can move this country forward from a condition of eight million people out of work to a full employment economy, with a living wage for all. If we believe our party can do this. Let us tell the nation: Yes we can. Si se puede.

Democrats can move this country forward from its loss of 3 million good paying jobs to NAFTA and we can cancel NAFTA. We can start over and condition trade with America on workers rights, human rights and environmental protection. Yes we can. Si se puede.

Democrats can move this country forward from 40,000,000 without health insurance to a single payer system which provides quality health care for all. Yes we can. Si se puede.

Democrats can move this county forward from underfunded schools, underpaid teachers and undereducated youths to making education our top funding priority and providing free college education for all.

Democrats can move this country forward from a condition where are air, our water and our land is being ruined by multinational corporate interests where we demonstrated that environmental protection is our path to sustaining the life of the planet. Si se puede. Yes we can.

Democrats can move this country forward from the destructive Patriot Act to restore for Americans the right to assemble, the right to free speech, to right to be free in our persons from unreasonable search and seizure. Yes we can. Si se puede.

Just as FDR proclaimed four freedoms, it is time for us to reclaim our our freedoms and mission as the party of the people, with a declaration of the human economic rights of the American people.

We have a right to a job.
We have a right to quality health care.
We have a right to a good education.
We have a right to decent housing.
We have a right to food fit to eat.
We have a right to water fit to drink.
We have a right to be free of the fear.
We have a right to be free of war.
We have a right to be human.

[Beam Me Up]

10. God, I love Kucinich. n/t

[eridani]

16. I second that emotion! n/t

[noonwitch]

8. A traditional liberal democrat.

Like FDR. I liked Clinton, but he's not really a liberal in my book. Liberals don't support the death penalty. Hillary's a liberal, though.

[mac56]

9. Old school.

I'm a Paul Wellstone Democrat.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Socialist first, Democrat second.

I usually vote vote for the Democrats that are running because they (sort of) offer an electable alternative to the much worse Republicans.

Both parties are capitalist inspired and controlled but, until there is a viable alternative, I faithfully apply my nose plugs every election, sigh, and vote (D). Though, on 2 occasions I did vote 3rd party. '68 voted against Nixon and Humpty Dumpty, and in '94 when our rep sold her sorry soul to the NRA. Nose plugs again at the ready for this fiasco. Fortunately my senator and rep both voted against the war. Kerry will get my vote, but only because he's not as obviously nuts as the Nitwit-in-Chief.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

14. I just put anarchist

Because I hate authority, position, status, pecking orders. I like to see the arrogant and powerful get taken down.

Ultimately I am cynical about all systems and I think the US is just too big for its britches, but I always prefer the Democratic candidate (as more likely to stave off total disaster for more of my lifespan).

[MsConduct]

15. Humanitarian n/t

[Gir Draxon]

17. I'm not a democrat...

... but if I was eligible to vote in the United States, I think I would be a "New Democrat".

[6000eliot]

18. Angry

I'm the kind of Democrat who is pissed off at having the presidential election stolen time and again.