POLL: Democrat, republican, or other?

[sgreger1]

Just curiouse how the demographic of snuson.com "people an the world around us" section is in regards to political stance.

I know liberal, ceonservative etc are not parties, but I want to know how far to the left/right everyone is.

[MrSnusNSnuff]

You didn't include an option for third parties. A libertarian doesn't fit any of those, really.

[wa3zrm]

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[lxskllr]

You didn't include an option for third parties. A libertarian doesn't fit any of those, really.

I'm closest to libertarian, but even that doesn't really apply. I can go hard right, or hard left depending on the exact issue. I took an online quiz once, and it graphed my political views on an XY axis. I was almost dead nuts in the center, but very slightly left leaning socially. If I can find the page again, I'll report back. It may be of some interest, and more accurate than a poll.

[wa3zrm]

Which party is he?

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[lxskllr]

Here's my political views in graph form...



And here's where you can take the same test...

http://www.politicalcompass.org/index

Of course it's limited, as any poll would be, but it should give a rough idea of where everyone stands.

Edit:
I'm an F'n moron :^D The CORRECT graph is now posted. I need to refamiliarize myself with my scroll wheel :^D

[bakerbarber]

OMG :shock:

My chart looks EXACTLY like yours lx. Is that thing rigged?

:lol:

Like it landed in the same spot completely. WEIRD

[wa3zrm]

Here's where you can take the same test...

http://www.politicalcompass.org/index

Of course it's limited, as any poll would be, but it should give a rough idea of where everyone stands.

Thanks for the link... very interesting and fun.

[bakerbarber]

OH WAIT



The results are lower down the page. No lines just a dot.

I didn't scroll down far enough.

I scored closer to the Dalai Lama or Gahndi.

You were closer to Pope Benedict XVI lx :lol:

Here's my result. Sorta surprised me.

Economic Left/Right: -1.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.38

[VBSnus]

[VBSnus]

I'm starting to think my political party is going to soon be Conspiracy Theorist. Some of the things going on in government just don't add up.

* Republicans are the party of choice and reason, yet scientific advances are often thrust aside in favor of religious concepts
* Democrats are the party of social programs, yet Barack Obama is still allowing extraordinary rendition and has not altered the timetable on the Iraq pullout
* Republicans would NEVER think to socialize banks, yet George W Bush did the first bank bailout (and Obama followed up with more)
* Arlen Specter moved over the the Dems at exactly the right time to give them a filibuster proof majority, which is a huge slap in the face to the Republican party
* Most of the people I know who believe in the right to quality foods, no forced immunizations or medications, etc are Republicans, yet it is the Republicans who pass the most laws empowering the drug companies and additive/chemical companies

Seriously, what the hell is up with this?

It makes me wonder...George W Bush, nearly out of the blue, decides to bail out the banks. This was something so far out of the party line that it was extraordinary. Then we get to the next election, and the Republican party puts in (forgive me for saying this) a total dolt for the position of VP, when they had a slew of stronger candidates to choose from. It's almost like they wanted Obama to win. He wins, we get a Democrat majority, and Arlen Specter moves over to guarantee it. Obama gets into office and backs out on many of his most supported policies, bails out more banks, bails out auto companies, bails out newspapers.

Are the two parties working together to keep things in balance? Could the fear of bank failures or foreign takeovers have driven our government to decide we needed a president who was expected to bailout banks? Why don't we have more political parties by now?

Maybe, just maybe, the illusion of an epic battle of parties is what keeps us in line. Two parties who, despite the differences present in every man, woman, and child on earth, somehow agree with each other on the broadest and most random array of issues. It keeps us arguing, and the government machine keeps rolling forward with our without our urging, because no matter what we, the people, believe, you can always find a consensus with everyone argues.

It's probably crazy, untrue, and downright loony, and I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of it, but it is at the least food for thought.

[sm0ke42o]

I am a libertarian in every sense of the word.

Fair tax ftw 8)

www.fairtax.org

[sagedil]

Here's my political views in graph form...



And here's where you can take the same test...

http://www.politicalcompass.org/index

Of course it's limited, as any poll would be, but it should give a rough idea of where everyone stands.

Edit:
I'm an F'n moron :^D The CORRECT graph is now posted. I need to refamiliarize myself with my scroll wheel :^D

We place exactly the same my friend.

And I would be a great Libertarian if it wasn't run by buffoons IMNSHO. And it attracts a whole Ron Paul element that I have very little to do with. I don't believe in conspiracy theories, I don't think this country is in danger of collapsing.

I just don't much trust government, think they should completely stay out of our personal lives. Would wish that as few regulations as necessary get enacted.

But I still believe *some* regulations ARE necessary. And in the middle of the worst recession in 70 years. At a moment when deflation *could* take hold. At a moment when monetary policy is at zero percent, and the economy is still contracting. At the moment when the whole credit edifice, as stupid as it was to construct, it still exists, at the moment when the whole damn thing might collapse.

I am AOK with whatever the government wants to do to intervene, buy, control, I don't give a damn. Cause at these moment, Keynes was absolutely right.

Problem, and I understand it, is we will then spend the next 50 years trying to get the Governmental out once they are TRULY, not needed. But yes, I think what we have done was needed.

So what does that make me?? I vote Democrat. Many thing s I disagree with, but minor compared to what the other guys are today.

[lxskllr]

We place exactly the same my friend.

And I would be a great Libertarian if it wasn't run by buffoons IMNSHO. And it attracts a whole Ron Paul element that I have very little to do with. I don't believe in conspiracy theories, I don't think this country is in danger of collapsing.

I just don't much trust government, think they should completely stay out of our personal lives. Would wish that as few regulations as necessary get enacted.

But I still believe *some* regulations ARE necessary. And in the middle of the worst recession in 70 years. At a moment when deflation *could* take hold. At a moment when monetary policy is at zero percent, and the economy is still contracting. At the moment when the whole credit edifice, as stupid as it was to construct, it still exists, at the moment when the whole damn thing might collapse.

I am AOK with whatever the government wants to do to intervene, buy, control, I don't give a damn. Cause at these moment, Keynes was absolutely right.

Problem, and I understand it, is we will then spend the next 50 years trying to get the Governmental out once they are TRULY, not needed. But yes, I think what we have done was needed.

So what does that make me?? I vote Democrat. Many thing s I disagree with, but minor compared to what the other guys are today.

A big reason I didn't show more strongly libertarian, is due to corporation control. I'm generally for a free market, but companies left to their own devices will screw anyone/anything they can if it means larger returns. I'm VERY pro environment, and I think companies need to take more into account than the bottom line. Money isn't everything, and social responsibility goes a long way, and benefits everyone.

It's not all doom and gloom for the companies though. I'm against heavily taxing the rich, and would rather see a smaller, less intrusive government make up for the reduced revenue from the tax reduction :^)

[sagedil]

I would too.

But if I have learned anything this year, the entrenched interest groups are almost impossible to knock off. So I just don't expect much.

I would be a fantastic Rockefeller Republican. In so many ways, that is really my natural fit.

But the Republican party TODAY has made it clear I am not welcome. The party of Palin, of Limbaugh, Of Glen Beck. The party that has embraced torture. The party that has embraced religious fanatics , some so bad they would embarrass the Taliban. A party that just rejects science, knowledge, basically the entire enlightenment.

As I said before, I vote Democrat. I have NO choice.