Where do you fit in the American political spectrum?

[Skullheadhq]

Here's the test.

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What They Believe

Extremely critical of the federal government
Favor an assertive foreign policy
Pro-business; against stricter environmental laws and regulations
Strongly opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage
Convinced the 2010 health care law will be bad for the country
View immigrants as a threat to traditional American customs and values
Nearly half believe President Obama born outside the United States

Staunch Conservatives
9% of the public

Who They Are

84% are Republicans
72% agree with the Tea Party
More than nine-in-ten are non-Hispanic white
The oldest typology group (61% are age 50 and older)
56% are male; most are married and financially comfortable
57% own guns and 57% attend church every week
54% regularly watch Fox News
More watch Glenn Beck and listen to Rush Limbaugh than any other group


Apparantly, I'm a staunch conservative. Not that hard, with questions like 'are you poor?' So, how do I receive FOX News?

[gaelic cowboy]

Post Modern apparently

Post-Moderns
13% OF THE PUBLIC

What They Believe
Generally supportive of government, though more conservative on race policies and the safety net
Strongly supportive of regulation and environmental protection
Most (56%) say Wall Street helps the economy more than it hurts
Very liberal on social issues, including same-sex marriage
One of the least religious groups: nearly a third are unaffiliated with any religious tradition
Favor the use of diplomacy rather than force
Who They Are
The youngest of the typology groups: 32% under age 30
A majority are non-Hispanic white and have at least some college experience
Half live in either the Northeast or the West
A majority (58%) live in the suburbs
63% use social networking
One-in-five regularly listen to NPR; 14% regularly watch The Daily Show

Some of the stances are to black and white I like strong military and diplomacy but you could only pick one and on the environment i believe in some regulation but not overly so but again you could only pick either or.

[Sarmatian]

Solid liberal...

What They Believe

Strongly pro-government and very liberal on a broad range of issues
Very supportive of regulation, environmental protection and government assistance to the poor
One of the most secular groups; 59% say that religion is not that important to them
Supportive of the country's growing racial and ethnic diversity
Two-thirds disagree with the Tea Party

Who They Are

Highly politically engaged
75% are Democrats
Concentrated in the Northeast and West
57% are female
Best educated of the groups: 49% hold at least a bachelor's degree and 27% have post-graduate experience
A third regularly listen to NPR, about two-in-ten regularly watch The Daily Show and read The New York Times
59% have a passport
42% regularly buy organic foods
21% are first or second generation Americans

[Skullheadhq]

Supportive of the country's growing racial and ethnic diversity

What on earth happened to Serbia? That's not how I remember it, nor Dutchbat.

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[rory_20_uk]

Post Modern

[Louis VI the Fat]

Post Modern apparently

Me too!

YOU are a… Post-Modern

[gaelic cowboy]

Me too!

YOU are a… Post-Modern

Drinks on me yeaaaaaaaaaa

[Skullheadhq]

So I don't get drinks as a conservative? :(

[gaelic cowboy]

So I don't get drinks as a conservative? :(

We dont mean to it's just that you wouldnt like the uber cool low morals post modern pubs and clubs me an Louis will frequent.

We promise to meet up after for the ubiquitous burger and chips after a mighty lock of deleterious scoops

[Tellos Athenaios]

Post Modern. But I would rate myself as "vomiting in the corner having smelt the stench".

[Scienter]

Post Modern also.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Everybody here is postmodern!


* isolates Sarmatian from the group, points and laughs, starts the bullying *

[Csargo]

Post Modern

[Ser Clegane]

Aaand ... another post-modern here

[Lemur]

Is this thing broken? Post-modern. Which means I'm more modern than a modern thing, which is already pretty modern. But I'm so modern that modernity doesn't seem very modern.

I'm confused.

[PanzerJaeger]

Post Modern. Although on at least two of the points I know I don't fit.

•Generally supportive of government, though more conservative on race policies and the safety net
•Favor the use of diplomacy rather than force

I definitely did not give any indication of those two positions in the way I answered the questions, except maybe in supporting environmental regulation.

[Louis VI the Fat]

I think that anybody who refuses to fit an exact left-right mould is relegated as 'postmodern' by this test. They probably expected us to be a small group.


This is why the interwebs are dangerous! You get your head full of conflicting ideas, you fail to fit a single modern narrative!


* Except Sarmatian! Continues to bullie the non-standard kid. *

[Greyblades]

Libertarian
...I dont even know what that entails.

[Jolt]

I'm Post-Modern too. As we all know, Post-Modern really means COMMUNISTS!

[Jolt]

Libertarian
...I dont even know what that entails.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

Basically you Libertarianism says that the Government should be minimal, and not intervene in economy (Private Enterprise) and social affairs (Charity), and basically concentrate on maintaining and upholding the Law, and maintaining the Police Force and the army to counter internal or external threats to the nation.

[Greyblades]

Huh. I guess that does kinda fit me.

[Zim]

Libertarian apparently here. Not quite a perfect match, but I guess it's close enough.

[Ronin]

post-modern

[a completely inoffensive name]

This test is complete crap. Hurr durr, do you want peace through talking it out or with having more guns? Umm I want peace through economic interdependence. That way can we have as small and army and as incompetent diplomacy as we want. China isn't going to attack us because of our army, and our diplomats are never going to be holding hands with them, it's because they want us to keep buying their stuff.

But no, that can't be an option. I have to make 20+ false dichotomies.

[Rhyfelwyr]

Because I am so special, I am the first to be labelled "disaffected".

[Tellos Athenaios]

Is this thing broken? Post-modern. Which means I'm more modern than a modern thing, which is already pretty modern. But I'm so modern that modernity doesn't seem very modern.

I'm confused.

I'm guessing this test works like so:

“Are you a democrat” -> communist
“Are you a republican” -> birther
“Are you independent” -> no you're not. You're just postmodern. You don't have arguments because you end up confused and bored amidst 5 rounds of literary deconstruction of the question, the answer, the hidden assumptions, the arguments, and all the rubbish I just wrote.

[Beskar]

I am apparently a:
"Solid Liberal".

[CountArach]

I am apparently a:
"Solid Liberal".

As am I, rather unsurprisingly.

In reality I consider myself post-modern and I find the definition of post-modern used by Pew to be rather strange and really not post-modern at all.

[Motep]

Post modern...
Really, these questions were stupid. I disagree on most choices, either way the needle points. Solid this, solid that...we need some gray.

EDIT: Choosing myself as a strong republican moved me three notches farther to the red, but doing the same for dem moved me nowhere.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

libertarian. That's a reasonable fit, though I'm more staunchly religious than most libertarians