What is your general political ideology?

Liberal all the way, I guess. Sheesh, what a Canuck!

Not very political. Or not enough to choose one of these options.

I go with my gut on each individual issue. I don't call my beliefs a "blanket" anything. I feel more conservative on some issues than others. I find myself agreeing with a lot of the things Jesse Ventura has to say. I am intrigued by the reform party. I haven't researched much about them though. I need to read some more about the party before I say that I support them.

I have no opinion.

Not crazy about the choices, but if I had to choose one it would be Conservative economic/liberal social.

I'm a Globalist. The maxim of Gloabalism is :-

'Let mankind share equally and fairly the Earth's natural wealth, and let everyone benefit exclusively from their own labour.'

ie. If you make a good or supply a service, then you own it, and can sell it on the open market, and no one has any right to take from you any part of your income in the form of taxes. If you have not made it, then you can't own it.

No one made the land, nor the mineral resources, nor the seas, the air the sun shine.

DrJekyll: Interesting philosophy, not without its merits; but I have a few questions. If nobody owns the land, where can one legally live? One owns no land on which to build. If you set up a home in a given area, what's to keep another person from moving in, seeing as how you both own the land? And if we find ourselves in need of mineral resources (let's say salt) who provides it? I built my own mining equipment and therefore I own the equipment, but where do I mine? For that matter, where did I get the steel to make the equipment with if nobody can own mineral resources? I'd be interested to hear some clarification of your philosophy along these lines.

I'm a libertarian who believes in personal responsibility.

Liberal. (What we call 'liberal' you Americans would call communist!)

i'd say i'm liberal...not really politically active though

DrJekyll, ILJ: You might enjoy this really well written article jonathan just pointed out to me. It's at http://www.britannica.com/bcom/original/article/0,5744,2308,00.html. It's about globalism in an our current economic condition. It points out ways in which globalization and information-market help individuals and ways in which it harms, without being judgemental- a rare quality these days.

ILJ. Globalist philosophy dictates that the land belongs to everyone ie. the world community. Therefore you can legally acquire exclusive use of land providing you pay an annual rent to the community. The annual rent paid will be determined by the market in the same manner the capital value of land is currently determined. Likewise the community owns all mineral and oil deposits, and as required calls tenders for its extraction and distribution by private enterprise. The revenue from the sale is community income.
These two forms of community revenue are called 'Site Rent Revenue' (SRR) and 'Natural Resources Revenue' (NRR) respectively and replace all taxation. Taxation is collected via coercion. Site rent is paid voluntarily, likewise purchase of raw resources.........michael

topper, thanks for the reference...................michael

vos: so, you're a commie?

Does that mean that Vos is out to steal our precious bodily fluids?

I'm not active because I don't think the political system works. On a local level, I'd work towards conservative economic / liberal social policies.

Bill: In my opinion no, in most of the Americans' opinion: yep!

Liberal on social issues, don't know beans about economic policy

If anyone would like specific clarification on the generalized views they are:
Pure Liberals- These people are liberal on both economic & social issues.
Pure Conservatives- These people are conservative on both economic & social issues.
Libertarians- These people are conservative on economic matters & liberal on social ones.
Populists- These people are liberal on economic matters & conservative on social ones.
In 1994 about 17 percent of the population were pure liberals.
In '94 about 28% were pure conservatives.
In '94 about 21% were libertarians.
In '94 about 24% were populists.

All information is from American Government the Seventh Edition. By James Q. Wilson and John J. Dilulio, Jr. Copyright 1998 Houghton Mifflin Company.

You presume that there must be rulers, therefore I can't answer this.

Not so easy, indeed. I am generally for minimal government interference, but that said, there are clearly areas where the government needs to protect people from one another. There are also things that are most effectively administered by a government or similar agency, though I'm not completely convinced that these can't be handled another way... I've seen pretty poor results both with and without government.