Republican or Democrat

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NECROMANCERBOB

Monday, July 12, 2004 11:34 PM

Sadly, I have to agree about the browncoats probably being closest to Libertarian.

I'm a socially-enlightened fascist myself.

SGTGUMP

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:25 AM

Gun toting, law breaking libertarians.

www.cafeshops.com/miestelita

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, July 13, 2004 1:13 AM

Clearly more toward the GOP, but seriously, they're models of Libertarianism.

That's what governments are for. Get
in a man's way.

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

CREVANREAVER

Monday, August 2, 2004 9:52 PM

For an idea of the kind of person Mal or Zoe and any true Browncoat would vote for check this website out!

http://www.badnarik.org/

CONSCIENCE

Friday, September 17, 2004 8:18 PM

I for one am an Anybody But Nader guy!

http://www.georgewbush.com/

http://www.johnkerry.com/index.html

http://www.badnarik.org/

http://www.peroutka2004.com/

LTNOWIS

Friday, September 17, 2004 9:23 PM

Quote:
Ahhh, public schools. The best little place on Earth to enslave those consumer sheep...I mean give small citizens a double plus good learning!

As a public school student, I always viewed private schooled kids as elitist. While I can see why there are many good reasons for choosing them, if I had kids I'd send them to public school. Why pay for something when you can get it for free? Especially when there are tons of good uses for money? Public schools have taught me 2 things:
1. How to get used to and appreciate diversity
2. How to deal with hateful, inefficient, moronic beauracracy and suing phobia.
I also think blanket screenings/innoculations are not neccesarily bad. After all, diseases are bad, and so is untreated mental illness. I guess my motto is "Unlimited Freedom... except when it comes to health and Bad drugs."

CREVANREAVER

Friday, September 17, 2004 10:48 PM

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Originally posted by SoupCatcher:
This is kind of a rambling response just based on what I think might be a limited framing to this question. Since we've only had experience with one world, and many nations, it makes sense that to our point of view everything can be nicely broken down into the political parties of one nation. But in the Firefly 'verse were talking about many different moons and planets, all with their own associated internal politics. There's a whole host of different ways to run a planet, from totalitarian regimes to theocracies to some form of democracy to anarchy, etc. It wouldn't surprise me if the independents had people from all types of governments represented. More of a broad based coalition brought together for one purpose, to keep from being dominated by the Alliance. The commonality being that all of the members just want to run their own worlds in the way they see fit. So my weasling answer to the question, "Who do you see the independents as equivalent to?" combined with the title of "Republican or Democrat" would be: both and a whole lot more besides. It just depends on which independent you were looking at.

After thinking about it for so long, your most likely right SoupCatcher. Politically the Browncoats were probably very diverse. However, I'm pretty positive Mal and Zoe would most definately be Anarcho-Capitalists.

If you don't exactly know what that is, just click on the link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

That stuff makes a lot of sense to me and I'm sure it would to Mal!

CHEWIE

Friday, September 17, 2004 11:41 PM

Personally I think they would look at the issues and vote for what they thought was right. Not really taking a side, other then their own.

CREVANREAVER

Saturday, September 18, 2004 6:09 PM

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Originally posted by Chewie:
...they would look at the issues and vote for what they thought was right.

Yes, and the purpose of this thread is to guess exactly what they would have thought was right!

SOUPCATCHER

Saturday, September 18, 2004 8:21 PM

CrevanReaver, that definition looks like a pretty good fit for Mal. I'm not sure there's enough information to say the same thing about Zoe. Mal appears to be a reformed idealist. I think Zoe has always been a realist. I don't know where that fits in.

As far as the rest of our BDHs go... Not sure about Wash. Not sure about Book. Not sure about River. The rest of the crew kind of has a core versus border breakdown. Jayne and Kaylee from the border, Simon and Inara from the core. I doubt Jayne would ever vote. Simon and Inara would probably (before they left the core) vote for whatever party was dominant in the Alliance - although I'm not convinced that the Alliance has elections.

There's just so many ways to break this down: rich/poor, urban/rural, frontier/core, social liberal/conservative, Blue Sun/wildcatters, and probably a whole host of others.

It's fun to speculate. I have a suspicion that surviving on the rim is a full time job that doesn't leave much time for political type speculations. But protecting River is forcing Mal to pay attention to the bigger picture and slowly re-integrating him into the 'verse.

Just rambling...

I shaved off my beard for you, devil woman!

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