Which Posters Should Change Their Political Party and Avatar?

[Leinad]

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

I'm a socialist, but I vote for the Democratic Party because I think they're slightly better than the Republicans, and those are sadly the only two relevant parties in most of the country.

If I changed my avatar though, I would change it to light green or orange.

If you vote Democratic, you aren't a socialist.

You very well can be. You just support the lesser of two evils, and a gradual path to socialism.

As Dar said, it's for parties, not ideologies. I'm yellow because I'm someone who would vote for Libertarian candidates over most Republicans, or Democrats. To me, "the lesser of two evils" is still too evil--it's a question of whether you drive off the cliff in a car or truck. But if you vote Democrat every time, you really should have a red D avatar, not a maroon S one.

I would say a country with food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance is already a socialist country to a large degree. So this obsession with likening socialism to extremism always baffles me. Democrats are socialists, and I don't say that in the hyperbolic contemptuous way that many others do.

Maybe I've gone off on a tangent, but yeah—not sure why socialism is such a dirty word.

It's not being treated as a dirty word, more of a specific word--as in, if you consistently vote for the Democratic party over the Socialist party, your avatar should reflect that.

[Leinad]

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

Maroon is a shade of red.

Silly goose.

This kind of thing is why I voted HP.

Calling someone a "horrible person" is a pretty big insult when all you have against them is that they have a tendency to make stupid jokes.

I thought Turk was just remarking on Dar's love for Hewlett Packard...

I would wager that the vast majority of 'Socialist' posters on here advocate with things more in line with Social Democracy in the same vein as many of the left leaning Western European Parties.

In that case we would need a social democrat avatar.

But it's for parties, not ideologies. If we scrap Republican and Democrat and replace them with conservative, liberal, and moderate, then we can get a social democrat avatar.

Anyone with a maroon avatar that supports the Democratic Party should use a red avatar.

I'm a socialist, but I vote for the Democratic Party because I think they're slightly better than the Republicans, and those are sadly the only two relevant parties in most of the country.

If I changed my avatar though, I would change it to light green or orange.

If you vote Democratic, you aren't a socialist.

This is absolutely untrue. Any socialist who wants someone with similar views to actually win an election will vote Democratic.

It's partially untrue, but mostly true. If you vote Democrat, you can be a small-S socialist, but not a big-S Socialist unless you vote for that party. Again, it's parties, not ideologies, that's why we have Republican and Democrat instead of conservative/liberal/moderate.