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Permalink Reply by Gregg R Thomas on September 20, 2012 at 10:25am

I self-label, it works for me.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on September 20, 2012 at 11:56am

Most people in the U.S. don't vote ideologically. They vote self-interestedly.

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Permalink Reply by John Phillips on September 20, 2012 at 1:03pm

I believe they call people in the middle of the political spectrum, "moderates".

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Permalink Reply by kris feenstra on September 20, 2012 at 4:18pm

I'm not giving you kids new titles; you don't even use the old ones properly.

I find people at the extremes make just about every term sound ridiculous and dirty.  the word 'liberal' rolls off the tongue either like a swear word or a badge of honour.  I love it when someone writes a scathing critique of an issue which is littered with with prejudicial statements about 'the Left' and 'the Right' as if they were talking about the Borg.  To my mind, the issue is not the extremists, but rather the amount of attention we give them.  While there are many moderate liberals and conservatives, and probably a handful of pure centrists, listening to shouting idiots make it seem like politics is strict binary.  Yer either with us or agin' us.

Personally, I am more of a progressive than a liberal, but in practical terms, this distinction seems to have almost no value in contemporary culture.  No matter what terms I do or do not adopt, those that are willing to hear my views as an individual will listen, and those that are only interested in preaching will typecast.

If I had to create a term, I would call my political views 'correctism'.  The guiding philosophy would be: My opinion is right, so stfu already.  It's not a particularly principled movement, but it does make it easy to maintain philosophical consistency.

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Permalink Reply by Logicallunatic on September 21, 2012 at 4:32am

If I had to create a term, I would call my political views 'correctism'.  The guiding philosophy would be: My opinion is right, so stfu already.

Sounds a bit like solipsism. 

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Permalink Reply by kris feenstra on September 21, 2012 at 1:36pm

Only my consciousness is certain to exist... free of political absurdity.

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Permalink Reply by James Cox on September 22, 2012 at 3:59am

STFU-All-readyists!

or

STFU-I-want-a-nice-dayist! This could be me. I just want a nice day, before I'm dead!

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Permalink Reply by Meg Fields on September 21, 2012 at 1:19pm

I'm one of the people who doesn't fit into liberal or conservative. For the most part I am a democratic liberal. I support gay rights, women's rights, etc. But I'm super conservative on immigration issues.

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