How would you characterize WalterMitty's "ideology?"

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Why are you all so obsessed with it? He has been trolling you guys for ten years now, and Joe Republic seems to be the only guy who nailed it on the head.

I thought he was, too, but how many people do you know could endure going by a fake identity - political or otherwise - for ten years?

Walter's not at all different on Facebook than he is on here, FTR.

He's on FB?

Mmmhmm.

[TNF]

An honest liberal.

[IceSpear]

A fun read in retrospect:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=40976.0

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Wow, that was the most Democratic I've ever heard WalterMitty sound, and he was apparently a Republican at the time? Yeah, I'm just gonna go with "contrarian".

[IceSpear]

An honest liberal.

Because liberals all secretly support right to work, we just hide it because reasons.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Not educated properly in politics.

[Gustaf]

I never understood peoples' issue with Walter. His set of views never struck me as very odd (and may in fact be fairly typical of a Swedish liberal) and given those views it makes sense that he was a Republican at the time and a Democrat now.

He does use provocative language quite often to incense people but that's all part of the fun. I have no doubt his views are fundamentally sincere.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I never understood peoples' issue with Walter. His set of views never struck me as very odd (and may in fact be fairly typical of a Swedish liberal) and given those views it makes sense that he was a Republican at the time and a Democrat now.

Even the "admiring Dick Cheney" bit?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Unique

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Incidentally, why does he never use capital letters?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

One of the last New Deal Democrats.  He reminds me a lot of Truman, JFK, LBJ, Hubert Humphrey, and the like.  A populist who is liberal on economic issues but with some conservative leanings on social and foreign policy.

[Storebought]

Jfern was completely correct in that 2006 thread, and all the right-leaning people against him, Democrat or otherwise, were totally (self)-deluded.

[TNF]

An honest liberal.

Because liberals all secretly support right to work, we just hide it because reasons.

I thought you described yourself as a social democrat?

One of the last New Deal Democrats.  He reminds me a lot of Truman, JFK, LBJ, Hubert Humphrey, and the like.  A populist who is liberal on economic issues but with some conservative leanings on social and foreign policy.

Please never post again, thanks.

[H. Ross Peron]

One of the last New Deal Democrats.  He reminds me a lot of Truman, JFK, LBJ, Hubert Humphrey, and the like.  A populist who is liberal on economic issues but with some conservative leanings on social and foreign policy.

You do realize he's more or less the exact opposite?

[SWE]

One of the last New Deal Democrats.  He reminds me a lot of Truman, JFK, LBJ, Hubert Humphrey, and the like.  A populist who is liberal on economic issues but with some conservative leanings on social and foreign policy.

lol

[traininthedistance]

An honest liberal.

Because liberals all secretly support right to work, we just hide it because reasons.

I thought you described yourself as a social democrat?

Um, hate to break it to you, but pretty sure IceSpear is being facetious here, and mocking your strawman.

[TNF]

He referred to liberals as "we," which would indicate that he considered himself a liberal. To my point, I don't necessarily think that liberals support RTW, but in states where they have majority control of the legislature and the Governorship that are RTW or have had that in the past, they haven't done much of anything to repeal it. Liberal politicians support unions insofar as unions put cash into their re-election coffers; since the 1980s, they've time and time again raised more cash from capital than from labor, and so the historic alliance between labor and the liberals established in the New Deal has become more and more meaningless, which we see in attacks upon public sector workers by liberal Governors and liberal state legislatures, like those in Illinois and Massachusetts.

[Gustaf]

I never understood peoples' issue with Walter. His set of views never struck me as very odd (and may in fact be fairly typical of a Swedish liberal) and given those views it makes sense that he was a Republican at the time and a Democrat now.

Even the "admiring Dick Cheney" bit?

That isn't really a political position and probably something he does to be provocative. Clarence admires Hillary Clinton, but it doesn't make him a Democrat.

I was more focused on his policy views.

[MaxQue]

I never understood peoples' issue with Walter. His set of views never struck me as very odd (and may in fact be fairly typical of a Swedish liberal) and given those views it makes sense that he was a Republican at the time and a Democrat now.

Even the "admiring Dick Cheney" bit?

That isn't really a political position and probably something he does to be provocative. Clarence admires Hillary Clinton, but it doesn't make him a Democrat.

I was more focused on his policy views.

Didn't Clarence defected to the Democrats last year?

[IceSpear]

He referred to liberals as "we," which would indicate that he considered himself a liberal. To my point, I don't necessarily think that liberals support RTW, but in states where they have majority control of the legislature and the Governorship that are RTW or have had that in the past, they haven't done much of anything to repeal it. Liberal politicians support unions insofar as unions put cash into their re-election coffers; since the 1980s, they've time and time again raised more cash from capital than from labor, and so the historic alliance between labor and the liberals established in the New Deal has become more and more meaningless, which we see in attacks upon public sector workers by liberal Governors and liberal state legislatures, like those in Illinois and Massachusetts.

I'm a Social Democrat in a worldwide context, but consider myself a liberal in the American context. In this country, politics is widely viewed in the lens of "liberal vs. conservative".

After looking at the map of the 24 right to work states, most of these states haven't been fully controlled by Democrats in a long time. After the dirty Republican tricks in Michigan and Indiana, I'm hoping that Democrats ram through right-to-work repeal by any means necessary the second they gain the trifecta in any of these states. Unfortunately, that will never happen any time soon in most of them.

[Paul Kemp]

Let walter be walter.

[Goldwater]

I never understood peoples' issue with Walter. His set of views never struck me as very odd (and may in fact be fairly typical of a Swedish liberal) and given those views it makes sense that he was a Republican at the time and a Democrat now.

Even the "admiring Dick Cheney" bit?

That isn't really a political position and probably something he does to be provocative. Clarence admires Hillary Clinton, but it doesn't make him a Democrat.

I was more focused on his policy views.

Clarence is a Democrat...

[Antonio the Sixth]

I never understood peoples' issue with Walter. His set of views never struck me as very odd (and may in fact be fairly typical of a Swedish liberal) and given those views it makes sense that he was a Republican at the time and a Democrat now.

Even the "admiring Dick Cheney" bit?

That isn't really a political position and probably something he does to be provocative. Clarence admires Hillary Clinton, but it doesn't make him a Democrat.

I was more focused on his policy views.

Cheney is one step beyond in terms of "everyone in the opposing party hates his/her guts" than Hillary (not that Hillary isn't hated by the GOP, of course).

[WalterMitty]

socially my politics are quite liberal.

economically i do believe the government should help the least of us, which is why i dislike obama's food stamp cuts, while he gives away billions to big agri-business.

but i believe in pro-growth economic policies like lower taxes, minimal regulations and less labor unions.  unions have destroyed every industry theyve been involved with.

im a foreign policy realist.  i feel like too many democrats are living in dream land.  it is a dangerous world and we must stay on the offensive against those who wish to do us harm.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

socially my politics are quite liberal.

Albeit authoritarian.

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You're so economically liberal that you not only support RTW laws, but that proposing one would be at the top of your agenda if you were elected to the MA Legislature.

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Talk about having your cake and eating it, too!

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Most Democratic politicians have the same foreign policy positions as you.

Typical JIDF-supported nonsense.

[Linus Van Pelt]

Didn't Obama "cut" food stamps only in the sense that the temporary increases in the 2009 stimulus bill expired, leaving them at the level they were before?