If you could capture your political ideology in a single sentence ...

• O-Trap

  

  ... what would that sentence be?
  
  I'm not talking political affiliation. I'm talking your political worldview. What is the principle that is coherent throughout your entire political worldview?
  
  For me, it's in my signature: "We are who we are; we believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility on all issues at all times."
• believer

  

  Trust, but verify.
• queencitybuckeye

  Do what you want, pay your own way.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  I don't know if it counts as ideology, but this is my response to our government in the following situations: if it is my parents' farm in SE Ohio that my family's owned for over 100 years:
  
  "Get off my lawn"
  
  If it is our home in Virginia:
  
  "If we are paying close to $15,000 in local and real estate tax, why are our public schools so bad kids can't attend?"
  
  Overseas:
  
  "Why do we have to pay so much tax when we use no services, not even Germany or France taxes its ex-pats so much?"
• ernest_t_bass

  

  You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
• mucalum49

  

  queencitybuckeye;1262613 wrote:Do what you want, pay your own way.

  I was going to go with "Government should protect citizens unalienable rights but stay out of the private sector." But I like yours as well.
• thePITman

  

  The American Dream is NOT a right, but an Opportunity to work hard for the chance to earn success; and the moment the majority starts living off the minority, the hard work, innovation, and uniqueness of the United States dissolves.
• justincredible

  

  All of these are good. I'll just use one of them. Any one.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  justincredible;1262718 wrote:All of these are good. I'll just use one of them. Any one.

  This is a terrible ideological statement by which to live.
• justincredible

  

  ernest_t_bass;1262725 wrote:This is a terrible ideological statement by which to live.

  Indeed.
• Belly35

  

  Never given this much thought but I will give it a try.
  
  Jeopardizing my standard, goals, prosperity and expectation is not the government right.
  
  or
  
  Who the fuck works for who .. mofo
• O-Trap

  

  Belly35;1262749 wrote:Who the fuck works for who .. mofo

  You never let me down, Belly.
• sleeper

  

  queencitybuckeye;1262613 wrote:Do what you want, pay your own way.

  This.
• Heretic

  

  Fuck it all. EVERYTHING.
  
  *Because two sentence fragments = a single sentence as far as I care.
• fish82

  

  Excuse me...coming though. No seriously, get the fuck out of my way.
• bigkahuna

  "In our personal ambitions we are individualists, but in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people."
  
  "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."
  
  Both are quotes from FDR that reflect my ideals.
  
• bigkahuna

  ernest_t_bass;1262706 wrote:You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

  reps.
• gut

  Rational pragmatism.
  
  Too many idealogues in Washington that don't consider a practical path to their goals.