Are you a liberal or conservative, etc?
Why?
What makes your stance better than others?
Do you percieve any flaws in your stance?
Which one specific aspect of the other political identities do you abhor?
Thank you.
I'm a classical liberal, in the tradition of Western Enlightenment thinkers like Locke and Jefferson and the grandfather of market capitalism, Adam Smith. Free markets, democracy, free thought, rationalism and fair competition.
I agree with my stance because the proof seems to be in the pudding; I feel that (most) Western societies have been at the forefront of solving the major world's problems. Are we perfect? No. And we can still learn a lot from every other culture on Earth. But there is no where else I would want to live than the developed Western world.
The biggest flaw in western democracies is that we are tolerant of others views and we allow them to express themselves, no matter how anti western democracy that view might be. That being said, absolute tolerance destroys tolerance. The intolerant will not tolerate the tolerant, so we need to constantly be vigilant about protecting our somewhat fragile system, in short, we must be somewhat intolerant while being tolerant. And no, that's not illogical.
The one thing I can't stand is radical ideology; radical means "root", implying one root cause. So when someone says that all of societies problems can be boiled down to one problem (capitalism, the state, sexism/racism, etc.), I must control my death fist from smashing their skull into pink mist. Cuz, y'know, I'm a tolerant western liberal.
You're welcome.
(Love these posts! When will you answer, Mr. Undisclosed political leaner?)