If you died and then given the chance to come back but only as a politician for the party you don't support, will you do it?

I would rather burn in hell. Since I think most republican policies actually harm people I am willing to take one for the team.

Yeah… why not? Doesn’t mean I’d have to work hard at advancing their stupid ideas while at the same time having a good time on their money.

Depends. If I still have remaining goals in this life when I die, yes, I’d do anything to acheive them. If I don’t, well, I’d just rest in peace.

@Lightlyseared Details, details…

Sounds like university all over again…depends on how badly I want to come back.

Sure! Nothing says I have to remain a Democrat or a Republican! : ))

Yeah, I’d just be a secret mole lol.

Yes, because if I am going to be a politician, values are meaningless.

Jeez, @smilingheart1 Do you really think so little of your own morals or values?

If I had to be a politician representing values I didn’t support, then I would support them very badly, so as to give them a bad name. Not that it would be hard if I were a Republican. I could easily be hypocritical in an obvious way, causing people to turn away from the party.

Then again, maybe not. People seem to like shameless, heartless greed. I could be shameless and heartless and people would probably continue to vote for me. Oh well. I could always do something worthwhile and ethical on my own time.

No! Never.

@wundayatta With our current political climate, I don’t blame her for saying that lol.

There are a lot of political parties I don’t like, so does that mean my soul will split into several parts to inhabit the bodies of numerous politicians?

oh my goodness! I would have expected @Hypocrisy_Central to ask this question!

@snowberry Gadzooks! Fact from fiction, truth from diction!

@Blackberry is @mazingerz88 his alter-ego? It makes me wonder!

@mazingerz88 You seen Charlie Willsons War?...the beggining of that? Girls every where, meetings in hot tubs in vegas, fancy parties with southern belles that look like Julie Roberts, startting a proxy war… whats not to like?

@Blackberry great googledy-moogely!

Of course! It’d be the perfect opportunity to fulfill my dream of being an egocentric hedonist!

@Lightlyseared Charlie’s the dude! Don’t know enough about him but Sorkin found him a worthy enough person to have his story told and basing it on that, well, he’s awesome. Screwing the Russians, giving them a taste of their own “destructive modern weapon” medicine totally rocked! And he loved women. Wouldn’t mind hanging around his office.

@mazingerz88 of course it’s a shame that he basically used US tax-payers money to set up the Taliban and al-Qaeda but hey 20–20 vision with hind site and all that…

Nah. That’s too much. That was clearly, Democracy vs Communism there. The Afghans were really the underdog and glad Uncle Sam went to help an underdog. Charlie failed to convince Capitol Hill that we needed to keep our influence there after the Russians fled. The reality of his time had no call for that so he lost that argument.

Bin Laden will always be Bin Laden no matter what. Al Qaeda would still have been created. But Afghanistan would probably be in Russian hands now if the US did not step in at that time. Or more like, if Charlie didn’t. But that’s for another board.

Yes but the underdog the CIA gave most of the money to were people like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who spent as much of the Afghan war attacking other rebel groups as he did fighting the soviets and is now one of the leaders of the Taliban insurgents and calling for more terroist attacks against the US.

What can I tell you. That’s the real world.

Sure! Just because I’m a member of that party doesn’t mean I can’t vote according to my own politics.

That is kind of what happened to Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Disraeli was a Tory, and won office with the Radicals. When they dissolved, he found himself without a party, and was embraced by the Conservatives. He used to defend this irony by saying he wanted to Conserve what is good, and change what isn’t.

I don’t understand politics much at all. I think I’m liberal, but I’m really not sure.
But in the end, everything about politics just seems like bullshit to me. I’m sure that my will to live would allow me to endure whatever path opposes my ideologies. If I become a politician, it’s not like I would mean anything I say anyways. XD

I would keep my personal policies, maybe try to shift the party over. I’d be the guy that would have people asking, “Why is he a [party member] anyway?” And I’d sit in my chair and laugh.
I’m actually non-partisan, as I dislike both the Republicans and the Democrats for various reasons. My thing is conservatism vs. liberalism, and there are conservatives on both sides.

No. I’ve had enough of it. The political scene is no enticement at all. I’d rather just sleep, thank you. Or sing with that choir of angels, if they need a good second alto.

@Sunny2 makes a good point: a lot of us wouldn’t want to come back. Wish I could go back and amend that post. That’s what I get for late-night fluthering!

@Nullo Rephrase your question and make it a new one. The older I get, the less I’d want to come back.

I don’t really feel loyalty to any party, but I think that as soon as I got to the ‘as a politician’ part of the question, I would turn it down. I wouldn’t want to come back if I had to live my entire life as an awful person, republican, democrat, or otherwise.

If I had to come back as a politician – that is, if I were required to – I would keep my personal policies, maybe try to shift the party over. I’d be the guy that would have people asking, “Why is he a [party member] anyway?” And I’d sit in my chair and laugh.
I’m actually non-partisan, as I dislike both the Republicans and the Democrats for various reasons. My thing is conservatism vs. liberalism, and there are conservatives on both sides.

But by all accounts, Heaven is a pretty awesome place.

In Australia, if I was an MP in the party I don’t support, that might give me the power to vote for policies I do support and against policies I don’t anyway. As someone said, I could be a mole. They think I am supporting their plans, but when it comes to the secret ballot, I don’t.