What I do not agree with is your claim that you do not have an ideology. You have here displayed a lot of assumptions and values in a coherent narrative. That is, you have displayed your ideology.
Your claim to lack an ideology does not make it so, just as some marxists claims to lack an ideology - "Marxism is a science, not an ideology!" - does not make that true either. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
It is not my claim alone that "make it so". I also tried to argue, and I regret not having convinced you. Someone at the center will be seen as conservative by the left and socialist by the right. Someone above the center as I position myself, is, in plus, a weird bird that no one really sees what it wants.
I don't think I displayed assumptions as such, but different situations that have several facets and I argued for considering all those facets. I'm not against immigrants, but I do think we should consider the locals' view of them and its causes (not always racism). This is the kind of politically-neutral, rational argumenting that I claim myself of. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
Someone at the center will be seen as conservative by the left and socialist by the right. Someone above the center as I position myself, is, in plus, a weird bird that no one really sees what it wants.
Center is not an un-ideological position. An absence of ideology would not be placable on a political scale. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
This doesn't show opportunism or maverick-ism, but exactly that we don't fit political scale, which is based on ideologies. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
