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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
yeah. what he said. plus....
calling yourself a "liberal" or a "conservitive" is pretty ignorant if you ask me, at least in 2006. It would make more sence in 1700's Austria. Conservitives backed the German and Russian Empires (the Holy Alliance) and liberals wanted a republic.
Left wing and right wing? They were the seating arrangements after the French revolution. That's just stupid that was like, over two hundred years ago. You need to get over it. Seriously, make a list of things you support/oppose. Otherwise, I'll just think you're a tool. Of a party.
And neither the Republicans nor the Democrats opperate as a party. They opperate as coalitions of special interest groups. Because that is what they are.
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Yes, but you can't vote on each seperate issue, you have to vote for a candidate. That candidate can't just call himself a cadidate and get very far (when's the last time we had an independant as a president???), so he has to choose something: liberal/conservative, right/left, or Rep/Dem. Making a list of what you support or oppose, and then choosing the party that falls more in line makes sense, but you still have to have the parties.