Where do you see yourself on the political spectrum?

[financeguy]

Just a quick and dirty poll, nothing scientific. I know there are exercises on the Internet where you can input responses and determine where you fit in politically, but I am more interested in where posters see themselves as leaning politically.

 

[U2democrat]

Solid liberal. Proud of it!

 

[melon]

A cynical nihilist, although I guess I'm left-leaning, by default.

Melon

 

[VertigoGal]

Centrist but more liberal than conservative. Basically centrist but liberal on social issues.

 

[unosdostres14]

SOLID LIBERALS UNITE!

 

[melon]

You forgot the "flaming conservative." You know, the ones that have multi-trillion dollar tax cuts for the wealthy, while spending hundreds of billions more on military toys for an invisible enemy.

Melon

 

[financeguy]

You forgot the "flaming conservative." You know, the ones that have multi-trillion dollar tax cuts for the wealthy, while spending hundreds of billions more on military toys for an invisible enemy.

Melon

As I said, it's just a quick and dirty poll, nothing scientific.

You might call people with that outlook 'flaming conservatives' but they would probably see themselves for the most part as mainstream conservatives.

 

[nbcrusader]

You forgot the "flaming conservative." You know, the ones that have multi-trillion dollar tax cuts for the wealthy, while spending hundreds of billions more on military toys for an invisible enemy.

Melon

We could check the voting records to see all the Democrats who are "flaming conservatives"...

 

[Liesje]

"Mainly conservative, but liberal on a couple of issues"

Actually, I'm finding I'm more and more liberal (or hovering in the center really), but if you look at who I voted for, all of the local people were the Republicans, many of whom I know personally. The President, after all, is onle one person.

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Mainly liberal, but conservative on a couple of issues was my vote.

Angela

 

[BonosSaint]

Left leaning centrist, with not much inclination to align myself with conservatives or liberals. The disenfranchised wing?

 

[nbcrusader]

"Mainly conservative, but liberal on a couple of issues"

 

[verte76]

Mainly liberal, conservative on a couple of issues.

 

[Golightly Grrl]

Solid liberal. Proud of it!

Me too!!! High five!!!

 

[financeguy]

So far 70% or so place themselves in the centre or close to it...rumours of the far left FYM bias looking a bit dodgy at least at this early stage.....

 

[A_Wanderer]

People always want to see themselves as normal; if you are talking FYM standards I think that the results are skewed by that. On the other hand if everybody took a political quiz to determine where they stand I suspect the results would yield a better result.

Libertarianism ~ which I suspect is by definition right wing because the general nature of the left-right dichotomy is one of government size and interference (for the record I do not consider the Bush administration particularly dedicated to such policies).

 

[financeguy]

People always want to see themselves as normal; if you are talking FYM standards I think that the results are skewed by that. On the other hand if everybody took a political quiz to determine where they stand I suspect the results would yield a better result.

Absolutely correct but I am specifically looking for where people PERCEIVE themselves to be in this particular poll.

It might be an idea when this poll is closed to post one of those quizs to see how the results would compare.

 

[schnazdoodle]

"Mainly conservative, but liberal on a couple of issues"

I'm pretty much the same way... I'm somewhere in the middle, but I'm probably more right leaning... However, there are plenty of issues I'm definitely to the left of...

 

[financeguy]

Libertarianism ~ which I suspect is by definition right wing because the general nature of the left-right dichotomy is one of government size and interference (for the record I do not consider the Bush administration particularly dedicated to such policies).

I agree, although at the fringes of libertarianism you have the Survivalist movement, while on the fringes of the far left you have anarcho-syndicalists who also seem to believe in much reduced central government.

 

[financeguy]

People always want to see themselves as normal

Except for the 4% so far that have voted for the first option.

 

[Irvine511]

but don't you see, financeguy, if it isn't explicitly conservative, then it is totally liberal.

you know, liberal like CNN.

NYT
WaPo
LAT
MSNBC

and anything else that doesn't get it's talking points from the WH.

 

[STING2]

So far 70% or so place themselves in the centre or close to it...rumours of the far left FYM bias looking a bit dodgy at least at this early stage.....

No one has claimed FYM is "Far to the Left" as defined by this poll. No one has ever claimed that most people in here are Communist or close to it.

 

[Irvine511]

No one has claimed FYM is "Far to the Left" as defined by this poll. No one has ever claimed that most people in here are Communist or close to it.

no, but many people claim that there's an anti-Christian bias.

not always, but that is often read as having a left-wing bias.

anyway ... how could an open forum have a bias? if you think it's too left wing, then open your right wing mouth and say something. and vice versa.

 

[financeguy]

No one has claimed FYM is "Far to the Left" as defined by this poll. No one has ever claimed that most people in here are Communist or close to it.

Well it's early days yet. I have put a 5 day time limit on it.

Doubtless tomorrow all the close Commies will vote.

 

[joyfulgirl]

I guess solid liberal but I can be a far out leftie sometimes and I vote for the occasional Republican locally.

 

[Se7en]

Doubtless tomorrow all the close Commies will vote.

i voted today.

 

[Bono's shades]

Mainly liberal but conservative on a few issues.

 

[indra]

Well it's early days yet. I have put a 5 day time limit on it.

Doubtless tomorrow all the close Commies will vote.

Guess I better wait until tomorrow to vote then, eh?


But what I'm really wondering is who's the nutjob who voted Pat Buchanan is my hero?

 

[Se7en]

caisenma no doubt.

 

[U2democrat]

Guess I better wait until tomorrow to vote then, eh?


But what I'm really wondering is who's the nutjob who voted Pat Buchanan is my hero?

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oh well obviously that nutjob is me!






j/k!