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March 2, 2012 at 4:54 pm #602354
casabobaMemberQuiz takes only a few minutes to complete. Compare where you rank from “Staunch Conservative” to “Bystander” (and everything in between).
March 2, 2012 at 5:03 pm #749475
JoBParticipanti don’t think it will surprise anyone that i am a solid liberal..
what did surprise me is that we are only 14% of the population..
i would be interested to learn what the percentage of solid conservatives is if someone who lands there would share that information..
i was going to try to provide a link to the solid liberal results,
but realized doing so would prejudice the quiz :(
some of those either or questions weren’t as easy to answer as one might think
March 2, 2012 at 5:14 pm #749476
365StairsParticipantCool…I’m “Post Modern” – 13% of us…actually right in the middle of the road…
Sad that I have no real strong convictions either way…but you will not get me too riled up about stuff either…
I will pick a side in a pinch…
March 2, 2012 at 5:30 pm #749477
miwsParticipantMarch 2, 2012 at 6:06 pm #749478
dbseaMemberFor me was a pretty meaningless survey. Questions that are black or white and I frequently don’t agree with either of the statements offered. Some yes, but most, no.
March 2, 2012 at 6:08 pm #749479
SmittyParticipantMine came up Libertarian – which I have never, ever considered. Interesting. It accounted for 9%.
I think it needs to delve a little deeper though. For example, the questions on immigration I picked that they add value and the diversity is good. That is an entirely different question than legal vs illiegal but I think they are treating it as such – much like the media does.
March 2, 2012 at 6:20 pm #749480
JanSParticipantummm..solid liberal…so what’s new?
March 2, 2012 at 6:44 pm #749481
greatfree1MemberI’m part of the “Disaffecteds” which is 11%. Never heard of that group. I’m with dbsea though that these were to black/white for me to agree with either choice.
March 2, 2012 at 6:58 pm #749482
casabobaMember“The typology groups are created using a statistical procedure called “cluster analysis” which accounts for respondents’ scores on all nine scales as well as party identification to sort them into relatively homogeneous groups.
Cluster analysis is not an exact process. Several different cluster solutions were evaluated for their effectiveness in producing cohesive groups that were sufficiently distinct from one another, large enough in size to be analytically practical, and substantively meaningful. While each solution differed somewhat from the others, all of them shared certain key features. The final solution selected to produce the political typology was judged to be strongest from a statistical point of view, most persuasive from a substantive point of view, and was representative of the general patterns seen across the various cluster solutions.”
“Post-Modern” Here.
March 2, 2012 at 7:17 pm #749483
happywalkerParticipantdbsea I think the key to answering the questions is not to ponder too long on your answer. Just mark the side that is your thought and opinion and go for it. Nobody is watching. Solid Liberal and proud of it and answered honestly.
March 2, 2012 at 7:33 pm #749484
NFiorentiniMemberHmmm…I usually vote and consider myself Libertarian, but this survey has me as something called “Post-Modern.” Interesting.
March 2, 2012 at 8:09 pm #749485
kootchmanMemberI came out unabashed liberal
JoB… see? I keep telling ya…outside King County…it’s a whole other world. I came out Libertarian actually.
March 2, 2012 at 8:19 pm #749486
kootchmanMemberMarch 2, 2012 at 8:23 pm #749487
kootchmanMemberMarch 2, 2012 at 9:25 pm #749488
dbseaMemberMarch 2, 2012 at 9:47 pm #749489
CMPParticipantI’m apparently a Libertarian which doesn’t seem so bad. My now ex-boyfriend recently accused me of being a Republican so I’ll take this as further evidence that he’s wrong!
March 2, 2012 at 10:01 pm #749490
kootchmanMemberCMP… he said it because he loves you. when he calls you a liberal in 30 years… the love has faded.
March 2, 2012 at 11:56 pm #749491
JulieMemberI think it’s interesting, drilling down to the “COMPARE THE TYPOLOGY GROUPS ON” section (their caps, not mine!), that under Politics and Elections, “I like elected officials who…” the Staunch Conservatives are least likely of any group to support compromise. I’d be very curious to see how this has changed over time. Under Bush, Jr., were they more likely, or less likely, to support compromise? And did that change for the Solid Liberals, too, who are, in this survey, the most likely group to support compromise?
It may be interesting and important to see how people classify themselves, but it might also just feed the divisiveness that is tearing us apart. I think a more productive exercise is to try to discover “Why do people disagree so passionately about what is right?”, as the Moral Foundations folks are doing. You can help their research at yourmorals.org.
March 3, 2012 at 12:32 am #749492
DBPMember>>Why do people disagree so passionately about what is right?
—They don’t, actually. Most of the fireworks is just posturing.
If the people on the Politics Forum were stranded together on a desert island, I expect they’d figure out an equitable way to divvy up the resources and responsibilities.
But in the totally artificial world of the blog, it’s another story. Here, it’s not about surviving; it’s about getting the last word in, or getting the most people to agree with you (FTW).
At the same time, there’s no penalty for lying, crying, excoriating, calumniating, misrepresenting, overreacting, underreacting, exaggerating, namecalling, villifying, snarking, or complaining about dog poop. So people do it a lot, because it relieves their frustration and boredom.
Except when it doesn’t.
March 3, 2012 at 12:45 am #749493
JulieMemberYou make an excellent point; face-to-face, I think we’d all agree more than we disagree. But we really do disagree on some important things. If we could learn more about why, it might be more helpful than reinforcing our differences.
March 3, 2012 at 1:02 am #749494
JulieMemberOoh, I just found the prior typology reports, so I may be able to answer my first question. I’ll report back, in case someone else is also interested.
March 3, 2012 at 2:37 am #749495
hammerheadParticipantpost modern (interesting)
March 3, 2012 at 4:08 am #749496
JoBParticipantjulie..
i am interested
i will dig deeper when i have more brain power
i seem to have taken power napping to an extreme this afternoon and am still in shut down mode
March 3, 2012 at 5:12 am #749497
sam-cParticipantanother person categorized as po-mo.
don’t tell my husband, he is strictly mid-century modern. he will be so sad to find out he is married to a post-modern.
March 3, 2012 at 5:14 am #749498
NFiorentiniMemberI used to be Tea Party before Tea Party became popular. Think of me as Tea Party Hipster.
I used to be all “Free market rulez!!!1” until the unregulated financial industry killed the economy and BP, without any effective oversight, damned near destroyed the Gulf Coast.
I used to be against “Socialized medicine” until I paid attention to the proliferation of donation cans set next to convenience store registers for people battling cancer or MS. I realized, that by setting up the US Postal Service, the founders of this nation recognized the fact that there exists sectors of the economy in which the profit motive could be problematic. Such is the case with healthcare.
I used to be all “This is Christian nation!” until reading the Treaty of Tripoli, which contains, “…the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” Furthermore, Thomas Jefferson himself is the author of “Separation of church and state,” via a letter to the Danbury Baptists.
(Ya know…the same dude that wrote the Bill of Rights)
I used to be anti-abortion until fully thinking about the ramifications of personhood at conception, and was unwilling to jail a woman who drank a caffeinated beverage for attempted murder. Well…that and realizing that if miscarriages are an “act of God,” then that makes God the biggest abortionist around.
And corporations are not people! The CEOs and boards…they are people. But enabling corporate personhood,the government has legally invented cloning. WTF?!?
I used to be onboard Republican arguments against “Ivory Tower elitism” until I realized that these folks were arguing in favor of willful ignorance. I guess by destroying science education and teaching revisionist history, the powers that be can create more dumb people that are more likely to vote GOP?
I reject the class warfare and collectivism that liberals try to instigate; but by the same token, I reject the infringement on individual rights that is the mainstay of the modern GOP. How come “for the good of society” seems to include everyone but me? And how come morality has to be based on a book which defies rational sense and empirical evidence? I believe that neither corporations nor government, by their mere existence, are innately evil; there are only evil individuals and their sycophants.
I am a man without a party.
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