Party Focus Question

[RINO Tom]

There has been discussion about this, so I thought I would make a nice, clean poll about it.   If you're a very clear leaner, vote as the party you identify with, otherwise pick option 5, Indies.  Obviously the question is vague, just make of it what you will.

[JA]

Economic/Class issues, by far.

[Sir Mohamed]

Both are important, but a little more economic, because so much depends on it.

[Santander]

Life and Israel.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

Social and cultural issues (pro-life Republican)

[RFayette]

Social and cultural issues (pro-life Republican)

[Antonio the Sixth]

Stopping the deadly advance of neoliberalism is the absolute priority.

[Goldwater]

Eh, I guess I will still count myself as an economic R, though even on economics I'm not exactly 100% R at this point.

[White Trash]

Stopping the deadly advance of neoliberalism is the absolute priority.

Neoliberalism is a cancer on modern society.

[RINO Tom]

Eh, I guess I will still count myself as an economic R, though even on economics I'm not exactly 100% R at this point.

The Rs aren't 100% R on economics.  Any healthy party (and any thinking individual) should have SOME disagreements with the platform.

[Mr. Smith]

Economics.

[I’m not Stu]

Economics/class (R). I'm not a member of the GOP, but I generally vote Republican.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Economics, for selfish reasons and because it has the ability to appeal to the most people (something like 75% of voters support raising the minimum wage, for instance), but we shouldn't neglect social issues either.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Economics easily (R)

[Derpist]

Social cultural. There's only one culturally sane party left in this country, though I don't really care for supply side economics.

[Leinad]

NOTA.

Lots of issues are important, I can't morally support a party that routinely supports things I think are horrible, even if I agree with them on half of the issues.

I could see myself aligning with an LGBT-friendly economically-focused Republican Party, perhaps similar to the main right-of-center party in an elections and government simulation game on this site, but I'd eat manure before supporting the party of Trump and Pence.

[Cynthia]

Pro-choice Democrat who couldn't care less about the economy other than poor people's welfare.

[SWE]

Social issues are rarely distinct from class issues.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

We should through this dichotomy out the window, along with vague polemic uses of the term "neoliberalism."

[Person Man]

Anything combination of policies that creates opportunity and knocks down barriers be they class based or cultural.

[Antonio the Sixth]

We should through this dichotomy out the window, along with vague polemic uses of the term "neoliberalism."

There's nothing vague about neoliberalism. It's a very specific, very definite set of political, economic and moral beliefs and assumptions with a very narrow base of advocates (although a plethora of useful idiots) and translating into very concrete policies.

[Derpist]

We should through this dichotomy out the window, along with vague polemic uses of the term "neoliberalism."

There's nothing vague about neoliberalism. It's a very specific, very definite set of political, economic and moral beliefs and assumptions with a very narrow base of advocates (although a plethora of useful idiots) and translating into very concrete policies.

A narrow base of advocates that apparently run most of our political and economic and media institutions. The entire Obama administration is proof that those advocates matter.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

We should through this dichotomy out the window, along with vague polemic uses of the term "neoliberalism."

There's nothing vague about neoliberalism. It's a very specific, very definite set of political, economic and moral beliefs and assumptions with a very narrow base of advocates (although a plethora of useful idiots) and translating into very concrete policies.

That's a rather vague description for something so specific.

The term over the decades has meant social market ordoliberalism, been used as a broad category including both Austrian and Chicago schools - among others, a synonym for 'Third Way' Blairites and New Democrats , and now whatever this thing is that you are talking about. The term is more confusing than enlightening.

[Bigby]

Economics and class. Apart from being a security hawk, I am pretty socially liberal.

[Derpist]

We should through this dichotomy out the window, along with vague polemic uses of the term "neoliberalism."

There's nothing vague about neoliberalism. It's a very specific, very definite set of political, economic and moral beliefs and assumptions with a very narrow base of advocates (although a plethora of useful idiots) and translating into very concrete policies.

That's a rather vague description for something so specific.

The term over the decades has meant social market ordoliberalism, been used as a broad category including both Austrian and Chicago schools - among others, a synonym for 'Third Way' Blairites and New Democrats , and now whatever this thing is that you are talking about. The term is more confusing than enlightening.

I'd argue that the Austrian/Chicago schools have almost no real life influence, so we're really talking about Blairism, which is the dominant ideology of Davos, Bilderberg, etc.