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

[spacedoutlooney.livejournal.com]

I'm unaffiliated. I don't believe in labeling my beliefs or in belonging to groups that form based on belief. At the moment however, Bush Republicans scare the shit out of me, and I more or less support the positions that the Democrats are taking.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It's difficult to put a lable on it sometimes, I think. Yet, people try as a means of communicating their political views in one word as opposed to paragraphs.

I'd be Curious to know how we all define liberal and conservative and moderate. Do we do it the same way? If not...then how functional are the lables in communicating our beliefs and views?
We may be saying we are liberal when in reality we are moderate. Or conservative - when we are again moderate. Or left-wing, when it's just liberal. Hard to know. Sometimes when it comes to understanding where someone else is coming from and why - I feel like I'm playing a guessing game.