Screw nuance-I’m not going to make a 47 choice poll. Just pick the one that you identify most with.
Libby lib LIBERAL.
With none of the imaginary content the right wants to assign to me and none of the ‘shame’ or negative connotations they think there should be either.
I’ll just say moderate because i’m all over the place depending on the issue and the specifics.
Liberal, leaning towards center.
Poll needs more cowbell. Or more choices.
If you’re pretty far conservative on a bunch of things and pretty far liberal on a bunch of other things, that DOES NOT average out to “moderate”. Because you aren’t “moderate” on much of anything.
I chose “liberal” but my usual inclination is to be a special snowflake on these questions. I really do have some conservative notions as well as some contempt for some liberal concepts (those are not, by the way, fully overlapping categories, those two). I’m not sure an anarchist is liberal or “in a liberal direction from the center”. In fact I tend to agree with people who say the extreme left and right seem to bend around a loop and merge into each other (totalitarianism).
That’s why I said “Identify most with”.
That’s easy. I’m an extreme moderate.
Love me, love me, love me - I’m a liberal.
Big Ditto
In some ways this is more interesting IMO because that’s how typical poll questions about political ideology break down. 47 choices wouldn’t allow direct comparisons with that broader set of data. With just the three choices we can see that so far the board is more liberal than Democratic Party members.
I’m one of the few moderates.
Well of course I’m a moderate. It’s all you other people who disagree with me who are extremists!
And of course I’m a conservative. I want to conserve the political norms and values necessary to keeping our constitutional republic healthy, and not do stuff like elect someone who has no experience whatsoever in public service and is temperamentally unfit to hold power over other people to our nation’s highest political office. I want to conserve the natural environment of our planet. I don’t want to take a wrecking ball to things like Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid that we have spent fifty or eighty years building.
But, OK, no more fighting the thread. I have always self-identified as a liberal; liberalism is definitely the “ism” that best expresses the values and beliefs that I hold. I want to expand individual liberty (as against both Big Government and Big Business) and to empower ordinary people to live their lives to the fullest (which includes things like arranging our society such that people’s lives aren’t crushed the minute a family member inevitably develops a serious health problem; and seeing to it that every person can get as much of an education as he or she can intellectually handle, even if they don’t come from a family with a hundred grand just lying around).
So “liberal” is how I voted in the poll.
I would say I’m more liberal than not, but I’m also a cheapsake, so I identify with a lot of please stop taxing me crowd.
I might’ve called myself moderate when I was younger, as I’m pretty big on trying to see both sides. But I find that what I believe in is actually what is considered liberal in this country. There really isn’t much room for being a moderate.
And this is why I resist the idea that moderation as you get older is normal. I’ve become less moderate. I think the actual issue is just that there are some extremist liberals who become a bit more moderate, and then conservatives who become more liberal. These are more common than people who were moderate to start with.
I mostly identify as liberal but I selected ‘‘Moderate’’ because I took a fairly convincing test that says I’m a moderate. I don’t know what to call myself these days.
Progressive moderate, let’s say.
I’m so liberal I can’t even see moderate from here. Surprisingly, I was pretty conservative when I was younger, mostly as a result of my dad’s influence.
Hmm. I pegged you at moderately extreme.
Conservative, but also hold liberal views on perhaps 30% of issues.
I’ll shock the room and go with liberal.
Who needed a poll? Just reading the posts here is pretty revealing.