Apparently I've moved left in the last year. I think I merely answered a few questions with "Strongly agree/disagree" rather than just "agree/disagree."
I also answered Agree to marijuana legalization where before I answered Disagree. My real opinion hasn't changed: I agree with legalization, but ONLY if related legal issues are ruled on at the same time. (Like road-side drug testing. Whether bus drivers etc. can be barred from pot by their employers. Whether landlords can ban pot smoking - which stinks up a building FAR more than tobacco - in their apartments.)
O Really wrote:Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15
Lower left.
Not far from Banni.
I came out about the same place as Gandhi. From the center of the graph, I'm three lines down and five lines left. I wonder if I should get some sandals and a sari?
OF COURSE they're extreme-right when it comes to the poor and middle class. But for the 1% they're firmly on the left. The bankers commit massive fraud, and the taxpayers are on the hook. The oil companies have a license to print money - selling oil from public land back the to the public - and they still get massive subsidies AND the taxpayers are stuck with the clean-up costs. Big defense contractors get no-bid contracts at several times the recognized private industry cost, and the taxpayers are stuck with the bill.
rstrong wrote:I'm not sure I'd put them so far to the right.
OF COURSE they're extreme-right when it comes to the poor and middle class. But for the 1% they're firmly on the left. The bankers commit massive fraud, and the taxpayers are on the hook. The oil companies have a license to print money - selling oil from public land back the to the public - and they still get massive subsidies AND the taxpayers are stuck with the clean-up costs. Big defense contractors get no-bid contracts at several times the recognized private industry cost, and the taxpayers are stuck with the bill.
I agree, but good luck in getting them to directly admit it.
rstrong wrote:I'm not sure I'd put them so far to the right.
OF COURSE they're extreme-right when it comes to the poor and middle class. But for the 1% they're firmly on the left. The bankers commit massive fraud, and the taxpayers are on the hook. The oil companies have a license to print money - selling oil from public land back the to the public - and they still get massive subsidies AND the taxpayers are stuck with the clean-up costs. Big defense contractors get no-bid contracts at several times the recognized private industry cost, and the taxpayers are stuck with the bill.
I agree, but good luck in getting them to directly admit it.
doesn't change the fact that the 1% and most of the 10% live off of the benefits of law and benefits built directly into what is essentially their economy.
And like most if these tests - this one oversimplifys to the point of irrelevance
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
Trumpette Repugs, and actually any current Repugs even if they don't like Trump, have less than "little" in common with libertarians.
Libertarians, in their own words:
...
Not much Republicanism or current version "Conservatism" there.
"Libertarian" means different things to different people. Remember this from 6 years ago? I thought it was pretty cool. A chart that locates one by Economic Left/Right and Social Libertarian/Authoritarian:
I must have taken it as "Vrede" but my results today are about as I remembered from then - economic lefty, very social libertarian.
Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.13
I'm as economic socialist as banni and more social libertarian than y'all were. Oddly, Liz!/Bernie! fan me is not as economic lefty as Bloomberg-supporting O Really was and still may be. Go figure.
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Got it, you stupidly neglected to include your numbers and now you're desperately creating idiotic excuses for not completing what you'd already partially done by posting your graph because, as always, your ego is so tragically delicate when you're innocently asked for elaboration.
Anyhow, whiner, your numbers are approximately:
Economic Left/Right: -3.10
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.60
Trumpette Repugs, and actually any current Repugs even if they don't like Trump, have less than "little" in common with libertarians.
Libertarians, in their own words:
...
Not much Republicanism or current version "Conservatism" there.
"Libertarian" means different things to different people. Remember this from 6 years ago? I thought it was pretty cool. A chart that locates one by Economic Left/Right and Social Libertarian/Authoritarian:
I must have taken it as "Vrede" but my results today are about as I remembered from then - economic lefty, very social libertarian.
Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.13
I'm as economic socialist as banni and more social libertarian than y'all were. Oddly, Liz!/Bernie! fan me is not as economic lefty as Bloomberg-supporting O Really was and still may be. Go figure.
Probably similar to whoever the test writer wanted me to be similar to
I took it, or similar, last year. Overly simplistic, mind reading, meaningless, all come to mind
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”