Which world thinker/figure/writer/activist is the preceding poster most like?

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

It can be someone of any nationality, living or dead, regardless of how significant or insignificant their impact on world history has been.  It can be a political figure, but it can also be someone who's never served in public office.  Try to consider both ideology, background, and personality when you decide, going only as far as how much you know about both the above poster and world figure they are most similar to.

[windjammer]

Hmmmmm
Difficult Scott. Few people are both Cuomo democrats and libertarian on foreign issue and extremely religious.
Well, hmmmmmm.  
And if I recall correctly, you lean anti immigration (you're not a crazy Joe Arpaio or something like that though), and you're not really a pro union man.
Soooo, I will say L'Abbé Lemire, although seriously, he was to your left economically, but he's the only person who is devotly christian, was (probably) a pacifict after the First World War (like every French at this time).  But he was socially relatively progressive.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Hmmmmm
Difficult Scott. Few people are both Cuomo democrats and libertarian on foreign issue and extremely religious.
Well, hmmmmmm.  
And if I recall correctly, you lean anti immigration (you're not a crazy Joe Arpaio or something like that though), and you're not really a pro union man.
Soooo, I will say L'Abbé Lemire, although seriously, he was to your left economically, but he's the only person who is devotly christian, was (probably) a pacifict after the First World War (like every French at this time).  But he was socially relatively progressive.

I'm sorry, but if you understood anything I wrote in that thread as "anti-immigration," please read it again.

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[windjammer]

It's been about a year since I wrote one of these, and since certain US policies have changed, I thought it would be appropriate to revise some planks.

Social Issues

Abortion/Women's HealthLeft

• Keep abortion legal nationwide; neutral on late-term abortion
• Expand access to contraception, cover with public funds
• Allocate public funds toward Stem Cell Research
• Promote 'safe sex' education programs

LGBT Issues: Left

• Support the Supreme Court's recent ruling on DOMA
• Legalize same-sex marriage in every state, including adoption rights

(no preference for whether this should be done through ballot referendums, state legislatures, or courts)

• Include sexual orientation in hate crime laws

Drugs: Center-Left

• End the ‘Drug War’ nationally and internationally; direct money and efforts to causes that seek to prevent the use of hard drugs; decriminalize all drugs, prosecute dealers
• Legalize, regulate, and tax the sale of marijuana; oppose the legalization of other hard drugs

Prostitution: Center-Left

• Legalize and tax prostitution
• Require routine medical tests and strictly enforce health standards

Guns/Crime: Center

• Support conceal-carry and 'castle doctrine' laws
• Support enacting Manchin-Toomey style background checks
• Oppose handgun bans
• Neutral/lean oppose assault weapons bans
• Oppose the death penalty
• Encourage states and local communities to address crime and prevent police brutality

Education: Left

• Support public schools, but not misguided spending; reform the system from within
• Adopt a Finland-based system and repeal 'No Child Left Behind'
• Reward public schools that succeed, and redesign failing ones
• Grant waivers to states for all federally-required standardized tests, reduce standardized tests to one per student during his or her junior/senior year
• Guarantee teachers the right to unionize, but maintain a healthy balance between unions and governments
• Give teachers the right to choose their own books and design their own assignments/tests, provided that they meet a certain criteria

Immigration: Center/Center-Right

• Enforce immigration laws; use defense funds to increase Border Patrol, deploy sensors, and build fences

• Prosecute businesses that hire illegal immigrants

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• Provide residency for illegal individuals who demonstrate ‘good moral character’ by pursuing higher education or serving for at least two years in the US military
• Oppose English-only legislation; strengthen bilingual education, instead
• Oppose prosecuting children of illegal immigrants
• Oppose mass deportation
• Oppose ‘Arizona-style’ immigration proposals

Euthanasia: Left

• Allow euthanasia at the consent of individual doctors and their patients

Church and State: Center

• Allow voluntary school prayer, but no official teacher-led prayer; allow students to form religious groups in public schools
• Keep the words ‘under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance
• Support separation of church and state, but oppose keeping the church out of the public square

Economic Issues

Affirmative Action: Center

• Shift the emphasis on AA strategies from racial preferences to economic empowerment of all disadvantaged citizens; oppose quotas
• Support equal pay legislation

Free Trade: Center

• Generally support free trade; oppose both global laissez faire and protectionist policies
• Give other countries access to the US market if they apply labor and environmental standards to factories
• Build a rule-based global trading system

Health Care: Left

• Keep the Affordable Care Act in place for the time being, but transition to a public option or single-payer system
• Cover American citizens from the time of birth

Welfare: Center

• Support ‘work-for-welfare’ legislation, such as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
• Drug-testing for welfare recipients has not worked in practice or saved money for welfare programs, but I am in favor of letting states mandate drug-testing if it’s proven to be a cost-saving measure.  Unfortunately, the practicality of such policies is yet to be shown.

Minimum Wage: Center-Left

• Support the minimum wage, but exempt small businesses that would not be able to afford it

Taxes: Center

• Roll back the Bush tax cuts for top earners, but keep them in place for Americans making below $250,000.  Revert back to Clinton-era tax levels when the economy stabilizes
• Remove tax loopholes
• Reduce the Corporate Tax

Regulations: Center

• Re-evaluate government regulations; some are necessary, but others have the tendency to benefit large corporations at the expense of small businesses

Budget: Center-Right

• Make debt/deficit reduction a priority, but not one that outweighs the importance of economic recovery
• Oppose across-the-board spending cuts until the economy stabilizes
• Evaluate and slash spending that goes  to wasteful or unnecessary projects
• Ban pork-barrel projects
• End farm subsidies for large businesses in the food industry
• Cut pay of civilian federal workers by 5 percent, reduce federal workforce by 10 percent

Energy: Center/Center-Left

• Continue oil drilling, but incentivize the private sector to generate energy from cleaner sources
• Launch an initiative for the federal and state governments to transition energy sources in public buildings (new heating and air conditioning systems, new lighting, etc.)
  
• Keep tax credits for the production and sale of hybrids and environmentally friendly vehicles
• End government subsidies and tax cuts to oil businesses
• Lean against Cap and Trade legislation

Social Security: Left

• Protect SS funds from being allocated toward unrelated expenditures (lock box)
• Raise the Payroll Tax after the economy stabilizes
• Oppose proposals to raise the retirement age or privatize Social Security
• Reduce benefits for wealthy individuals
• Use an alternate measure for inflation

Unions: Center-Left

• Balance labor demands with business concerns
• Negotiate with public unions for pension cuts when necessary, but keep collective bargaining in place

Foreign Policy/Defense: Left

PATRIOT ACT

• Strongly oppose; repeal the law in its entirety and protect Constitutional liberties

Afghanistan & Iraq

• Withdraw all military presence from Afghanistan and Iraq

Israel/Palestine

• Support a two-state solution; craft a foreign policy that pertains to the needs of both Israelites and Palestinians
• Keep both entities accountable for upholding promises

Iran

• Use embargoes and isolationist techniques against Iran, but commit no military action unless there is clear evidence that a nuclear arms program is being developed

Syria

• Oppose US intervention in Syria.

Military Spending

• Withdraw troops from Korea, China, Japan, Europe, and elsewhere
• Reduce nuclear arsenal and space spending
• Reduce Navy and Air Force fleets
• Cancel or delay some weapons programs
• Reduce noncombat military compensation and overhead

Electoral Issues/Government

Voter Regulations/ID Cards

• Support distribution of voter ID cards, but not at the expense of the individual
• Oppose any reform laws that might disenfranchise voter participation
• Allow early voting and count absentee votes

Electoral College

• Abolish the electoral college; let new presidents be selected via popular vote.
• Enact proportional representation for elections pertaining to the legislative branch

Washington D.C.

• Let the citizens decide if they want to remain a district or become a part of Virginia/Maryland, but only at the consent of the state that would incorporate the district.

Puerto Rico

• Let the citizens decide on statehood.

Senate

• Tighten rules pertaining to the filibuster
• Reduce Senate terms to four years instead of six

To sum up my ideology, I suppose I'm firmly leftist, but occasionally tip to the center or even the center-right, depending on the issue.  My top priority is making government more frugal, efficient, and respecting of civil liberties.

This.
But to be fair, you seem to have changed your views because when I have reread the thread, you postes a message after this message who said you supported the Dream Act.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Ah, yes.  My views on immigration have evolved over time, I will admit, but even the reasoning I have behind the restrictions I support is not that of most conservatives.  I'm not going to get into all that in this thread, though.

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[windjammer]

But don't worry, I have never considered as a crazy rightwinger on this issue!
And just to be sure for the future posters with all these skip. It's ME who has to be described now .

[Oakvale]

James Joyce circa Finnegans Wake.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

Francis Fukuyama

[TNF]

Tito

[Oakvale]

Bobby Seale.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Hunter S. Thompson, obviously.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Clement Attlee.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Jimmy Carter

[Cassius]

Friedrich Hayek

[Antonio the Sixth]

Joseph de Maistre seems like a pretty good fit. If that's cheating, then Edmund Burke would do.

[Torie]

This guy.  Alas diagnosing the problem is far easier than coming up with the most efficacious treatment.

[afleitch]

Keith Joseph

[Oakvale]

(Skip and so on)

This guy.  Alas diagnosing the problem is far easier than coming up with the most efficacious treatment.

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[H. Ross Peron]

Andrew Sullivan

[Oakvale]

Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

A toned-down cross between Brian O'Nolan and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

[Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bodies for Biden]

Hmm... Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler?

[DC Al Fine]

Tommy Douglas

[politicus]

Jean Calvin

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Don't know, but I would have to say Hans Christian Andersen by nature of being Danish.