we previously had this thread but it was lost in a sitewide crash. kind of fortuitous, given all the new people!
anyways, i’m interested in how you describe yourself politically but also why you do so, and/or how you came to the beliefs that you did. be as brief or lengthy as you want in answering that.
additionally, as a preface: i would like this to be a generally non-judgemental thread and i think this community is more than capable of that, so please respect that idea.[1] in general, you are not obliged to justify to myself or anyone else why you believe what you do.
exceptions, obviously, go for bigotry or intolerant beliefs that would be otherwise incompatible with the community’s ethos. bluntly if you’re a transphobe or something like that this is not the community for you. ↩︎
So I am a bit of a weirdo. Keep in mind I am nearly 40 and have had a LOT of life experiences and come from a very conservative and traditional area of the world which have colored my beliefs.
I have always been a strong fan of Kropotkin-style left-libertarianism (or anarchism if you want to use that label) though sometimes I vacillate between that and democratic socialism. Trying to stick to the “rules” of a label is dumb though.
However, I am also a pagan and animist due to my strong beliefs in tradition, family, military service, and the environment.
Whenever I vote it is usually for whatever party is most left without being ML.