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What is the political attitudes of New Buddhist Members?
Ideology: Democratic Socialism
Political Party (If any): US Democratic Party/ Democratic Socialists of America (Youth Organization)/ Young Democrats of America
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Political Part: Nope, not one I would vote for that I know of.
Organization: Again, no.
Ideology: Socially; far left, fiscally; moderate left.
Political Party: I'd say Democrat, but they don't do a good job representing my views.
Voting: usually straight ticket democrat since the Clinton witch hunt over a sexual encounter.
You’d have to consider that the political spectrum in our country is different from the USA.
The death-penalty is unthinkable and health insurance is obvious.
You’d be hospitalized for proposing the “right to keep and bear arms”.
At the other hand we have debates about “Europe” and about the” integration” of people with a Muslim background which would sound strange to American ears, I suppose.
In THEORY I like the ideas within Democratic Socialism. But in practice... unfortunately over time there is always a person/people who get greedy and decide to find a way to exploit the system and its people. There is also the issue of, "Yes, people SHOULD help others but should we make it MANDATORY to help or share with others."
So, I have made no definite decisions on political systems yet because I still have much deep thinking to do about it and I've only ever been able to see one political system in practice with my own eyes. I have much to learn. :-)
In the gym where I used to go, they introduced the rule that all visitors speak Dutch in the gym.
So you can’t speak Turkish or Moroccan with your Turkish or Moroccan friends because the “native” Dutch feel uncomfortable with that.
I think we are struggling with a (relatively new) loss of homogeneity in our population.
Party wise, None. all political parties are motivated by self interest and extremely corrupt.. ESPECIALLY the 2 big American parties.
For example, I'd imagine many Buddhists are pro-life and anti-death penalty, whereas full-on righties in the States are often pro-life and pro-death penalty.
This pro-life/anti-gallows thing would also apply to many Christians, even though Christians are often lumped into the "right-leaning" camp.
I've always felt attempting to categorize people by left/right is about as useful as categorizing them by pumpkin/apple pie.
I'm a pro-life, ex-service Democrat, whatever that is. And pumpkin.
I'm pretty fed up with the political system in the US today. It seriously needs to be cleaned up, money wise especially. When senators and congressmen have to spend half their time on the phone fundraising it skews where their loyalties lie.
I'd also like to see ranked choice voting implemented. It'd give outside parties and ideas a chance to be heard.
I also agree with Anarchist principles.
Political Party: US Republican Party
me: not good with labels. no polit affiliation. I vote for candidates, not parties. But it's really looking like they all belong to the same party: the Corporate Party.
Turkish people love it, but he’s the exception.
Most of us speak English, German and some French.
That’s just being practical because we can’t expect anyone to learn Dutch; and we do want to be able to do business in Europe.
Maybe this pain of usually being the smaller part (in terms of language and culture) makes us over-sensitive in a way, and could make us less flexible towards immigrants?
I’m not sure.
We’re not the only country in Europe struggling with this.
In Tibet, Chinese authorities made the surprise move to ban Tibetan textbooks (which the authorities had placed there in the first place), a decision which led to unprecedented middle schooler-led protests through the streets in many Tibetan towns.
Also being banned now are shows (in any dialect) depicting time travel. (?!)
America is undergoing a language shift with the preponderance of Spanish speaking people streaming over the Mexican border. Clearly, with 330 million worldwide native English speaking people taking a back seat to 346 million worldwide native Spanish speaking peoples - the birth rate between the two will decide eventually which language will predominate.
Americans may not be able to get away with insisting on English - but there are probably more cultural and socio-economic racial restrictions that persist than elsewhere globally. One need only look at racial profiling by the justice system and the resultant disproportionate ethnic prison population (overall prison U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations) to draw this conclusion.
In recent trips to Canada for business I realized that had I fled the draft in 1969 and gone to Canada I would have been immensely happier with the politics of a country I would have had to change my identity to reside in. Politics aside, Canadians seem more social - more friendly - than Americans. Maybe that is naive but that is definitely the impression.
As a classical liberal, I believe in free markets, low taxation/regulation, free trade, and minimal state intervention into the economy. I place the highest value on liberty; the freedom to do whatever you like, so long as you do not infringe on another person's liberty. (See John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism) I'm mostly indifferent to the "culture wars" and social issues. I'm opposed to abortion except in limited cases, ambivalent about the marriage debates, and think gays should be able to serve in the military.
The inspirations for my political views today stem from Mill, Frederich Hayek, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Sowell, and Calvin Coolidge.
Today, I live in an overwhelmingly Democratic part of Ohio, though I vote Republican.