Who best matches your thinking?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

Of pundits, authors, politicians, comedians, etc...

Who do you most consistently agree with?

Paul Krugman usually agrees with me and visa-versa. He hasn't convinced me of much over the years. He just does a good job of refining and explaining ideas with which I already agreed. Sympatico.

But Krugman is often cited as a 'sometimes' guy... for instance, he is very critical of Obama economic policy but supportive of the Healthcare bill.

But he is coming from a consistent world-view, and I can generally guess where Krugman will be on an issue because we seem to have similar assumptions about the world, priorities, etc..

I could say the same about the ACLU. They are a 'sometimes' outfit in that they seem to support issues from both sides, but they represent a consistent world-view that I share. It just isn't a world-view that perfectly matches either side in our left-right or partisan political divides.


Who is your political/intellectual soul-mate?

[Gman2]

1. Grayson

[Little Star]

3. +1

[saltpoint]

2. Poet Anne Sexton.

[HughMoran]

4. Me.

I tend to agree with my positions nearly 100% of the time.

:spray:

[existentialist]

5. John Stewart, Cenk Ughar, Alan Grayson, Al Franken, Rachel Maddow

there are others I agree with more than I disagree with too.

Paul Krugman belongs of the list too.

[elocs]

6. I can't think of just one since I really do not follow pundits, authors, or comedians.

I agree with some politicians, but disagree with others. There is not one that I would ever call my political/intellectual soul-mate. I voted for Obama and supported him, but I am not ga-ga about him. I don't watch the Sunday talk shows and neither do I listen to or watch the usual ones that DU gets orgasmic about how they are on fire.

[FSogol]

7. Kurt Vonnegut or Joe Strummer n/t

[blm]

8. Robert Parry, Russ Baker, Hunter Thompson, Michael O'Donoghue and John Kerry.

I LOATHE the corruption of government by the privileged. I fully support open government and its advocates.

[ShortnFiery]

9. Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders. eom

[Double T]

10. The Dalai Lama

http://www.dalailama.com/

[AngryAmish]

11. Tamerlane

[rasputin1952]

24. ...

:rofl:

[harun]

12. Hugo Chavez

[Jennicut]

13. I have several, hard to pare it down really.

I really enjoy reading Ezra Klein and Steve Benen.
Both provide the Gen X/Gen Y perspective on politics. As a Gen Xer, I appreciate that.

I like Krugman as well. Don't always agree on every single issue but I respect him a lot.

I adore Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert for the way they completely tear town the conservative perspective with their humor.

And I love love Rachel Maddow. Like Krugman, I don't always agree with her but is there anyone more prepared then her? Rethugs who go up against her are doomed! She is simply too intelligent for them.

[jefferson_dem]

14. POTUS meets Dylan meets Dalai Lama meets Lady GaGa meets Hunter S. Thompson meets Feingold...

Sometimes.

UPDATE: Damn. How could I forget RFK... and Kerouac, Lao Tzu, Thomas Jefferson, Joe Strummer, Rousseau, Thoreau, Warhol, Rimbaud, and Edgar Allan Poe?

[asdjrocky]

15. Howard Zinn, Howard Fast, Chomsky.

I believe in peace first.

[nevergiveup]

16. Mark Twain

"We have a bastard Patriotism, a sarcasm, a burlesque; but we have no such thing as a public conscience. Politically we are just a joke."

[Double T]

17. Nice to know some things never change.

Short, direct and to the point.

[hobbit709]

18. +1

"It can be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinct native American criminal class-except Congress"

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

[blm]

20. was thinking more currently, but, I must say I agree wholeheartedly with your choice.

*nods to Mr. Twain*

[polichick]

19. I usually agree with Rachel Maddow and love how she researches things. nt

[JohnnyBoots]

21. Bernie

[Brother Buzz]

22. Jon Carroll and David Corn are two I always stop to read but...

as far as best matches my thinking requires going back in time, back to Will Rogers. Never fly with a one-eyed pilot.

[Forkboy]

23. Kurt Vonnegut

[karynnj]

25. John Kerry or Paul Krugman

There are times I disagree with either of them - and they occasionally disagree with each other.