Political Typology
Posted by CircuitGuy 10 years, 4 months ago to Politics
I'm normally loath to support anything similar to the left/right quarrel and anything that reminds me of horoscopes, but this political test seems to be based on evidence. Once you answer the questions, it gives you details about how you got grouped into that category and how people in other categories voted.
People should never blindly accept a survey or from clans and do the in-group/-out-group thing that people sometimes fall into, but I'm curios how what political ideology this test says people belong to.
It only takes a minute. As someone skeptical of most horoscope-like things and online tests, I think this one's decent.
People should never blindly accept a survey or from clans and do the in-group/-out-group thing that people sometimes fall into, but I'm curios how what political ideology this test says people belong to.
It only takes a minute. As someone skeptical of most horoscope-like things and online tests, I think this one's decent.
Some of these questions were frustrating and I wanted to answer none of the above. The biggest issue I had was with the question "Most corporations make...fair, reasonable, or too much profit". In my view, whatever the company can get is fine, so long as nobody forced people to use that company.
I was farthest away from the Steadfast Conservative position with my choice of "Relying too much on military force to defeat terrorism creates hatred that leads to more terrorism." I don't think that "relying too much" produces that result, but I do think protracted decade-long engagements do. Quick retaliatory strikes may not kill all the terrorists, but I suspect they will produce less blowback. I think it's a false belief to think that "terrorism" is ever going to be defeated by any counter tactic.
If you know a little about something, it's easy to come to facile answers. When you get into the nuts and bolts, making a system work requires a lot of thought and doesn't have anything to do with soundbites.
We get a lot of that, here, too, actually. How many of your 109 posts for the day ran five sentences?
Not surprised
"Young, well-educated and financially comfortable, the Next Generation Left have very liberal attitudes on many issues, including homosexuality and abortion, the environment and foreign policy. They are supportive of an activist government, but wary of expanding the social safety net. They also have relatively positive views of Wall Street’s impact on the economy. While most affiliate with the Democratic Party or lean Democratic, few consider themselves strong Democrats."
I think I would rather be a Young Outsider. I do consider myself Democrat, but I do not believe Democrat / Republican means that much. 20 years ago Democrats condemning cutting Medicare pmt projections. Then they promoted it a few years ago, and it was the Republicans condemning it. The left/right thing is mostly nonsense.
simplistic questions that don't have any thought behind them other than red vs blue.
In other words, it is idiocy unworthy of anyone here.
Again, the epistemological error is in attempting to record the responses of ducktalkers and aggregate those into statistics.
I scored "Business Conservative." I also had problems with the questions because so many (all of them?) showed a mainstream-media non-intellectual lack of analysis. "Large corporations have too much power" for instance, or "being involved in world affairs" have many nuances. Protecting the environment is another. Polllution is the destruction of someone's property. We were forced to accept that as a "social cost" for receiving the benefit of factories. These polls never delve into that. They cannot.