Political International Kitchen Sink LJ Poll....

[shadowkat]

Does anyone really read posts on the weekends, besides me? Since I can't read them during the week? And how often do you actually respond to the posts you read? Do you read or do a quick scan? How often do you regret the responses you've made and wish you could retract it like an errant email before it gets read as opposed to merely deleting? To what degree are you immersed in politics? Where do you get your information? What information do you trust as reliable, what don't you trust? And do your question your views or just hunt for information that reinforces it?

I ask too many questions. It's not that I want to know so much as I want to understand. It's why I've taken psychology classes at different points and read the books - the attempt to understand how others think and how I think. Seldom works. Except when I force myself to step outside my own perspective completely.

Anywho...here is a poll, that I'm doubtful will get many responses since I'm posting it at 9:45 pm on a Sat morning and not during the work week - when many people are surfing to deal with boredom/downtime at work. Then again, I may be wrong about that - perhaps there are few out there like myself who do? If so, please take a moment. Also if you can link to it that would be great...more responses the better.

[In hindsight, I should have probably put "All of the Above" as a category for one of those entries...oh well.]




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Comments

[liliaeth]

Well I'm from Belgium, I have much more trust in my country's newspapers than in either the internet or US papers. And I tend to vote socialist, which is not the same as communist. And I try to read most entries on my f-list, though I might skip fics, if the pairings don't interest me.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Good point. A lot of people don't realize that socialism and communism are very different. Also there is more than one type of communism. And they do tend to be more "economic" systems than political, even though the lines have become very blurred.

Plus, each country is different. France, Australia, Canada, and the UK to a degree all practice a form of socialism - with their health care systems and welfare. Also the US as capitialistic as it likes to paint itself, did just take control of two major banks - which is a socialist reaction not a captilist one. (One that may have been prevented if there had been more regulation of the finance industry to begin with.)

My take for what's worth is the US went too far with capitalism and is now reaping the results. But I'm admittedly not an economist, so I'm sure there are people out there that disagree with me.