Left Wing or Right Wing? Take Pop Quiz in OP!
- Thread starter photonrider
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- huskeR_32
As Famine pointed out to you, your answers on this quiz align more with Bernie than with any other candidate. So yes, I'm asking you that question seriously.
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Seriously, start using the Quote and/or Reply function so that people know when you respond to them! (And so everyone else reading along can follow what is happening.) Why are you so resistant to being a clear communicator?
squadops
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Ok then @huskeR32, I know you think I am a joke but I am not, Sanders does not represent me, you think it seems odd based on where my test result lies, but I promise you... That crazy old man does not represent me at all, not at all. You know damn well that I stand for freedom, in whatever sense you wish to place it, Sanders in my eye is pink and you know how well I like the commies.
Common now, I know you enjoy penning me down and all of that, I want a free people and not wealth redistribution.
Common now, I know you enjoy penning me down and all of that, I want a free people and not wealth redistribution.
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- huskeR_32
Mind showing me where I said this?
The results of this quiz suggest otherwise.
While I'm not saying this quiz is the ultimate source of truth, I'd imagine that a person would look at their results and at least take a few moments to think about the implications of them.
Again, the quiz suggests otherwise. There might be a few things that have come to define Bernie for you that you don't like, but to claim that he doesn't represent you "at all," seems to be quite a stretch.
Yes, I remember the notion that you view your children as your own property quite well. Wait a sec...
I actually don't. But because you seem to think that everyone can read your mind, I understand why you'd think I do.
I don't even know what "penning you down" means, but I don't think I enjoy it.
squadops
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Ok, Bernie does represent some of my ideals, but I am speaking more of a stance of reality, at least mine. I cannot stand socialism in any aspect whatsoever, and you already know that.
Does my test result speak otherwise? Perhaps it does, it's just a silly test. I am glad I resurrected this thread, it makes us all think just a little. Am I an enigma? Most likely, I have it all.
Does my test result speak otherwise? Perhaps it does, it's just a silly test. I am glad I resurrected this thread, it makes us all think just a little. Am I an enigma? Most likely, I have it all.
squadops
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I tried it again and the result surprised me, I figure I am more right and more on the authority side. I answered as quickly as possible because I know my mind has a way of trying to manipulate things.
here is the link again first off. https://www.politicalcompass.org/test
and here are my last results. Thanks to the crew for helping me with my ineptness, I mean that.
Ok, I took it again just for kicks, this time with a little more thought put into it and a few less beers
Most likely this is more accurate. It's not that much different tbh.
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- Small_Fryz
Though I think I should be a tough more in the right, I think the questions are designed to always make out the companies are bad and have no responsibilities naturally which I tend to lend more natural shaping due to the consumer and people voting with their wallet and demands instead of requiring govt legislation. So with that in mind I think i would like to move more to the right on this graph.
Economic Left/Right: 0.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.74
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I'm a Left handed person who leans right. You can't explain that.
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Right wing or Left wing it doesn't matter to me as both sides are essentially no different as they both see government as a means to an end. The same can be applied to those in the center, the exception being Libertarians.
BTW this talk of American becoming more "libertarian" is nothing but BS. Sure Americans are more identifying themselves as being socially liberal and fiscally conservative but that does not make one a libertarian in the classical sense of say someone like Bastiat.
BTW this talk of American becoming more "libertarian" is nothing but BS. Sure Americans are more identifying themselves as being socially liberal and fiscally conservative but that does not make one a libertarian in the classical sense of say someone like Bastiat.
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Used my teleporter....
Genuine question - This seems to suggest that you would not describe yourself as a liberal/progressive. Why is that? What about it doesn't fit you?
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- Johnnypenso
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- huskeR_32
But you're okay assigning restrictive labels to those who disagree with you? Got it.
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- Johnnypenso
Lots of people happily assign themselves restrictive labels of their own free will. My comment obviously refers to them. Not sure where the smugness and sarcasm is coming from though. It's not something you've had an issue with in the past.
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That's an interesting comment. My experience of GTPlanet is that ALL the "restrictive labels" come from the libertarian side. It's the libertarians who come out constantly with doctrinaire statements, who believe that compromise is a dirty word & who stick little Randisms at the bottom of their posts.
What I see from the "progressives" is a willingness to learn from experience, question everything, be adaptable & not tie themselves to a view of the world that dates to the 18th century. The only signature I would fix to a post is this:
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russel
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That's a textbook definition of a progressive. In my experience on the ground at least, the textbook doesn't quite line up with reality when it comes to people who define themselves as liberal/progressive or anything else really. In my experience most of the "progressives" I've known wave the flag of having a willingness to learn from experience and question everything, but in reality they have a singular, inflexible viewpoint, a near total disdain for alternate viewpoints and generally dismiss any idea created before they became politically aware as out of date and utterly useless. Generalizing of course. Some are more open minded than others.
I find the same attitude on most sides of the political spectrum
allyourjazzz
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That is all great but the problem is this strong desire from the left to keep writing a million laws everyday, we need that about as much as a hole in the head. I have an idea, why don't we learn from the past, live in the now, and look forward to a future not dependant on an overbearing government? 💡
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- huskeR_32
That's not obvious at all. Let's revisit the post this is all in reply to:
Looks to me like you're quite happy to label anybody who isn't as "capable" as you as a liberal/progressive.
I'm not being smug about anything; I'm calling a spade a spade. You toss around "restrictive labels" as often as just about anybody here.
I'm not the one who just made a post congratulating myself for being above labels, so I'm not sure what hypocrisy you think you've just demonstrated.
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Danoff
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I feel as though this is somehow aimed at me, I dunno, maybe it's my signature.
Libertarians (and pretty much everyone but the Amish) cannot restrict themselves to a world that dates back to the 18th century. Technology requires that we understand morality much better today than we needed to back then. As the possibilities for action increase, our understanding of our own moral views must be clear enough to to be useful.
What I see from "progressives" is a seat-of-the-pants, "I'll know it when I see it" or "make it up as you go along" or even "whatever most people think is right" approach to morality and government - which works about as well as it does with math. I guess that's why progressive economic policy never adds up.
Here's your Randism again...
allyourjazzz
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Joey D
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I think there's more to progressive thought than being lazy and wanting everything for free, however I think it often gets painted that way. I'd consider myself more towards the progressive side of things than the conservative, but even I understand that free college and healthcare isn't beneficial to the US since there is not plan as to where the money would come from.
Progressive thought also includes things like same-sex marriage, a women's right to choose what she does with her own body, ending the War on Drugs, not fighting wars in general, and so forth. It also brought about things like the abolition of slavery and women's right to vote. I'm not saying everyone will actually agree with this, but progressive thoughts sometimes means allowing people to have rights that they should have had all along (marriage contracts) or it means not wasting billions of tax payer dollars on a fruitless endeavor (War on Drugs).
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