Political leanings/ideas of AH posters

Sharkey 10 · 15-10-2010 10:18PM #1

I just wanted to get an idea of the political leanings of board menmbers and see if there is common ground or are we quite diverse . Are you the member of a party? Are you happy with the leadership of that party? etc

Personally I would probably be left leaning and have a liberal way of thinking about things and quite socialist on many things, allot of my beliefs are probably quite un popular and i have noticed this on boards.
I have noticed a lot of things said on boards that I would drastically disagree with.
I am not the member of any party and do not support any party in particular .
I find them to be all trying to be totally populist(not sure if thats the right phrase) and not willing to try anything that may ruffle a few feathers of the people in the upper echelons of this society. Even with the situation we know find our selves in they remain far too conservative for my liking.

Donkey Oaty · 15-10-2010 10:20PM

Sharkey 10 wrote: »

anything that may ruffle a few feathers of the people in the upper echelons of this society.

tl;dr: upset FlutterinBantam.

alwaysadub · 15-10-2010 10:21PM

I'm not a member of any party.

The only party i support is one where i can get drunk and do silly things.

Pauleta · 15-10-2010 10:21PM

There are a lot of left wing loons around Boards, dont notice too many far right people. Im a down the middle man. I hate the far left and far right but find it strange why the far left is more socially acceptable.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 15-10-2010 10:22PM

Simpsons quotes for all.

Scuid Mhór · 15-10-2010 10:24PM

i feel like making my own party.

Sharkey 10 · 15-10-2010 10:26PM

Pauleta wrote: »

There are a lot of left wing loons around Boards, dont notice too many far right people. Im a down the middle man. I hate the far left and far right but find it strange why the far left is more socially acceptable.

It depends who defines far left imo , by fox news standards im probably far left but in reality i am only left leaning. To answer your question I think it is because it sounds nicer to people

Superbus · 15-10-2010 10:26PM

Pauleta wrote: »

There are a lot of left wing loons around Boards, dont notice too many far right people. Im a down the middle man. I hate the far left and far right but find it strange why the far left is more socially acceptable.

Worl War 2 probably.

Same reason most people would see Hitler as more evil than Stalin. He wasn't on the Allied side.

Grimreaper666 · 15-10-2010 10:29PM

I never supported Fianna Fail in any shape or form but unfortunately I doubt i'd support any political party now from what i'm seeing, there isn't a decent party to support, they're all only in it for what they can get out of it for themselves.

Donkey Oaty · 15-10-2010 10:39PM

alwaysadub wrote: »

I'm not a member of any party.

The only party i support is one where i can get drunk and do silly things.

Luckily for you, like-minded people run the country.

PeterIanStaker · 15-10-2010 10:42PM

I'm a total cynic in matters political. I look upon the empty words and deeds of those elected to office in this country with a default setting of disdain. Its the only way to treat them.

orourkeda · 15-10-2010 10:53PM

The fascist pig party

Absurdum · 15-10-2010 10:55PM

most people here are lefty students who have no idea about the real world

runs away

SeaFields · 15-10-2010 10:56PM

Aleena Screeching Hazelnut wrote: »

Simpsons quotes for all.

Simpson quotes for some, coke and hookers for others.

Dudess · 15-10-2010 11:01PM

Vast majority of my views default to the left but I don't "aim" to be left-wing, that's just how I roll. If I had a view that was to the right, so be it. I usually subscribe to just whatever I feel is the fairest, most sensible stance. I don't wish to be any type of "ist" (e.g. I'm not a feminist - just want to see fairness in relation to both genders).
I get irritated by people who are so keen to be aligned with a particular ideology that they'll stick rigidly to their "side" at all times - right or left, no matter how unreasonable it sometimes can be (e.g. people on the right blatantly refusing to acknowledge how sh1t Palestinians are treated for fear of supporting a pinko cause; or how people on the left defend barbaric practices on the basis of them being another "culture").

galwayrush · 15-10-2010 11:03PM

Cynical.:)

dvpower · 15-10-2010 11:15PM

Cyclical

Morlar · 15-10-2010 11:20PM

I am usually right.

hehe.

southsiderosie · 15-10-2010 11:23PM

Dudess wrote: »

Vast majority of my views default to the left but I don't "aim" to be left-wing, that's just how I roll. If I had a view that was to the right, so be it. I usually subscribe to just whatever I feel is the fairest, most sensible stance. I don't wish to be any type of "ist" (e.g. I'm not a feminist - just want to see fairness in relation to both genders).
I get irritated by people who are so keen to be aligned with a particular ideology that they'll stick rigidly to their "side" at all times - right or left, no matter how unreasonable it sometimes can be (e.g. people on the right blatantly refusing to acknowledge how sh1t Palestinians are treated for fear of supporting a pinko cause; or how people on the left defend barbaric practices on the basis of them being another "culture").

Hmm. Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

My name is URL · 15-10-2010 11:27PM

I don't really have a leaning.. if you lean too far in any direction you'll fall over. I tend to be a contrarian regarding populist ideas

RayM · 15-10-2010 11:30PM

Pauleta wrote: »

There are a lot of left wing loons around Boards, dont notice too many far right people. Im a down the middle man. I hate the far left and far right but find it strange why the far left is more socially acceptable.

I'm always a bit suspicious when people claim to be 'down the middle'. Especially when they simultaneously make a tedious remark about 'left wing loons' and bemoan the notion that the far left is more 'socially acceptable' than the far right.

I'm pretty left-leaning on most issues, but I don't think I could ever join a party. I find political parties of all shades equally annoying in subtly different ways. And members have a tendency to adopt a football-team-supporting approach to politics. I'd hate to turn into one of those Judean People's Front types.

(fucking splitters)

stovelid · 15-10-2010 11:34PM

I don't hidebound myself as left-wing (given the lifestyleisms, paradoxes and internecine silliness therein) but nearly all my social views and my empathies would certainly fall very squarely in the pinko hand-wringer category.

th3 s1aught3r · 15-10-2010 11:40PM

Sharkey 10 wrote: »

I just wanted to get an idea of the political leanings of board menmbers and see if there is common ground or are we quite diverse . Are you the member of a party? Are you happy with the leadership of that party? etc

Personally I would probably be left leaning and have a liberal way of thinking about things and quite socialist on many things, allot of my beliefs are probably quite un popular and i have noticed this on boards.
I have noticed a lot of things said on boards that I would drastically disagree with.
I am not the member of any party and do not support any party in particular .
I find them to be all trying to be totally populist(not sure if thats the right phrase) and not willing to try anything that may ruffle a few feathers of the people in the upper echelons of this society. Even with the situation we know find our selves in they remain far too conservative for my liking.

National Socialism

Helix · 15-10-2010 11:41PM

Was quite left wing in my younger days, and still harbour some of those ideals but the older I get and the more I see in life, the more I move towards the right. Its more out of viewing it as the only real way to quickly fix a society going down the pan in a blaze of overly pc nonsense though.

Tear it down, set the ground rules again except with vicious penalties for things like we've seen destroy ireland, and gradually relax things when people prove they're able to use their own cop on

Stained Class · 15-10-2010 11:45PM

I'm an active member of the FG party.

Have been for a good number of years too.

Even as a kid I could see that Haughey & his gombeen mates were self serving gob****es.

I couldn't fathom how so many people in this country voted for them.

Anyhoo,I, at the earliest available oppertunity joined the organisation that could have the best chance of getting these gits out of power.

Personally, I'd be quite straitforward in my views, right wing, if you like.

I think there's far too much energy wasted in pandering to loudmouthed pressure groups with their own vacuous agendas.

Time to find out what the great silent majority(i.e the people too busy to get involved in nonsensical pressure groups) have to say about the state of things & how they would like to change things.

POWER TO THE silent PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seloth · 15-10-2010 11:57PM

Honestly after hour is the most idiotic place too discuss politics because the majority dont have a clue what they are on about or what is truely going on in this country...with many atually believing the current government is litrally sitting around twidling their thumbs..feckin eejits.

Yet then again many of these people assume they are the intellectual elite..but more so just join the top.

th3 s1aught3r · 16-10-2010 12:02AM

Seloth wrote: »

Honestly after hour is the most idiotic place too discuss politics because the majority dont have a clue what they are on about or what is truely going on in this country....

Dont we ?

ejmaztec · 16-10-2010 12:05AM

Stained Class wrote: »

I'm an active member of the FG party.

Have been for a good number of years too.

Even as a kid I could see that Haughey & his gombeen mates were self serving gob****es.

I couldn't fathom how so many people in this country voted for them.

Anyhoo,I, at the earliest available oppertunity joined the organisation that could have the best chance of getting these gits out of power.

Personally, I'd be quite straitforward in my views, right wing, if you like.

I think there's far too much energy wasted in pandering to loudmouthed pressure groups with their own vacuous agendas.

Time to find out what the great silent majority(i.e the people too busy to get involved in nonsensical pressure groups) have to say about the state of things & how they would like to change things.

POWER TO THE silent PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't see an awful lot of difference between FF or FG gombeens, because they all seem to share the same shallow gene-pool.

Seloth · 16-10-2010 12:06AM

th3 s1aught3r wrote: »

Dont we ?

People have the idea if they dont see it or hear it,then it dosent happen,despite the constant work that goes on in the background.

Stained Class · 16-10-2010 12:07AM

ejmaztec wrote: »

I can't see an awful lot of difference between FF or FG gombeens, because they all seem to share the same shallow gene-pool.

Really. Why?

Son Of A Vidic · 16-10-2010 12:08AM

I have no interest in membership of any political party, to do so merely constrains you into a failed political system. I just don't do party policies, but I can lean to the Right or Left depending on the issue at hand.

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