I dunno, non-Americans tyically get aghast at killing of either babies or their mothers. :eek:
There were too few questions and I think it would have been more accurate to have the sliding scales for strength of agreement and importance. But the programming would have been more costly so there’s that.
They shouldn’t have said to pick the option “closest” to your opinion; they should have said “closer.”
With only two options, wouldn’t the closer one also be closest?
Technically, yes, but the presence of a superlative implies at least three options. Since the compilers of the “test” didn’t see fit to provide more than two, they should have stuck with a comparative.
The test is probably fine for the vast majority of respondents. We’re just more into politics and have more nuanced views, so it’s going to be less useful for us. But less knowledgeable voters are going to tend to fall into the team mentality more and just pick whatever options closely correspond to their chosen faction.
Or they could both demonize the Left to compete with one another, creating the biggest scapegoat class in our history. Expect to hear much more broadly inclusive use of terms like socialism and communism.
Big. Bigger. Biggest.
You are quite correct and I now agree with the criticism of closest.
I think this is right. The Bannon wing will ultimately ruin the Republicans, and the Dems will become the new center right. Although, the establishment Dems (Obama, Clintons) are already center right, so I guess it just means status quo for them.
Maybe one Dem party with two wings, and two “conservative” parties, one nuts and the other, maybe not quite so nuts. Which of them gets the name “Republican Party” in the divorce settlement?
I wondered about that in another thread. And since we know that Trump’s populism attracted some of the traditional Democratic labor voters, I think that wing could actually grab a few of them. What I wonder is who would get the social conservatives? If the traditional Republicans were to turn more libertarian on social issues they could be a lot more attractive to a lot more people.
If we had three parties, how could we rename them to sound more Euro
Democrats > Social Democrats
Republicans > ? (What sounds like money?)
Populist/Trumpers > National Christian Unionists
The Green Party.
Horrible horrible quiz. I got Disaffected Democrat but I really wanted a “none of the above”,
I honestly don’t see Obama as center-right; I see him as pragmatist full stop. You can’t judge a president when he’s working with an opposition congress for 6 out of his 8 years and working with turncoat “Democrats” and independents like Max Baucus and Joe Lieberman the other 2. Remember, Obama proposed a public option at one point until he realized he’d get nothing unless that option faded away. Obama inherited multiple wars. I don’t see Obama as hard left but definitely not center right.
The less-crackers wing, I say. The others can call themselves “Bannon Republicans,” which sounds like a drunk saying “banana republicans,” which seems blissfully apt.
Latest interview with the sad, broken little toy Bannon, by NYT Jeremy Peters once again underscore the fact that there is nothing to Steve Bannon but petulant nihilistic bluster. There is no there there. I don’t know why people insist on giving him the time of day every time that drunken sod crawls out of his bottle.
He is “copy”. Words spoken, words to report, time for Happy Hour. If you are an idealistic young reporter, you will stop being idealistic long before you stop being young.
I especially liked this exchange:
Spoken by the average person, that’s a spit-take line; from Bannon, it might actually be true.