Conservatives, Republicans, and American debate

[Jaden]

I think they also fail to take into account the weight of some issues versus others, or different tests might weigh the same questions differently, or what have you. I've taken a few of them, and they tend to have trouble deciding if I'm left or right - I've gotten both - but I'm always on the "libertarian" side of things.

[HYHYBT]

I remember a similar test, specifically for the 2008 presidential election. The idea was good: choose which of two statements on each issue you most agree with and then find out whether Obama or McCain said it. Except the site, IMO, cheated. For something like that, you *ought* to choose a quote that's a fair condensation of their actual position. On some of them, though, they instead went out of their way to choose snippets that made them sound as if their positions were identical, or even reversed.

[KabeRinnaul]

This will probably confuse many people who've argued with me, particularly in Religion. http://www.politicalcompass.org/prin...5.00&soc=-6.67

[Jaden]

I got something similar when I took it a few days ago for this thread, but mine was right around the center of the "Liberal - Conservative" line. I find it interesting how it turned out, actually.

[draco664]

There is a test that you can take here that somewhat classifies it found here.

I tried it, it gave me this.

Political Spectrum Quiz

This one got me...



Seems pretty consistent.

[mikoyan29]

There are a few conservative writers that I actually respect and will read on a regular basis. Well, maybe not so many anymore but I do enjoy George Will although he seems to be going off into loonie land. I used to like to read Krauthammer but his columns of late seem to be "Obama...blargle blargle....Socialism...blargle". My favorite writer was William Buckley. It seems that the conservative writing has gone from thoughtful to "liberals are big wusses".

It seems that the Republican Congresspeople I have respect for are deciding to hang it up leaving us with people like Rand Paul and Paul Ryan. I have absolutely zero respect for Boenher.

As for the Tea Party, I find it funny that they didn't really start to take off until Obama was elected. They seem to ignore the fact that Bush was spending money like it was going out of style and we fought two wars off the books. I wonder how many trillions that has added to our debt? In my eyes, the Tea Party have crossed the threshold from conservative to reactionary.

[draco664]

There are a few conservative writers that I actually respect and will read on a regular basis.

Mark Steyn is a gifted (and conservative) writer. I don't agree with all of his views, but he is consistent in his opinions, and does present good cases for why he thinks as he does.

He is also quite amusing to listen to. In a speech in Australia, he presented a couple of situations that made you just shake your head. Like when a LGBT magazine claimed that Islam was homophobic, they were investigated by Scotland yard for islamophobia. But when the head of the Muslim Council of Britain said that gays were immoral and spread disease, Scotland Yard were sent to investigate him for homophobia.

The way he presented the dichotomy of two people saying the same thing and being investigated for two different crimes was quite amusing.

[Hyena Dandy]

Last time I took one of those tests I was exactly the center.

[HYHYBT]

Mark Steyn is a gifted (and conservative) writer. I don't agree with all of his views, but he is consistent in his opinions, and does present good cases for why he thinks as he does.

He is also quite amusing to listen to. In a speech in Australia, he presented a couple of situations that made you just shake your head. Like when a LGBT magazine claimed that Islam was homophobic, they were investigated by Scotland yard for islamophobia. But when the head of the Muslim Council of Britain said that gays were immoral and spread disease, Scotland Yard were sent to investigate him for homophobia.

The way he presented the dichotomy of two people saying the same thing and being investigated for two different crimes was quite amusing.

I'm missing something here. The statements "Muslims are homophobic" and "gays are immoral" are not only not the same thing, but the difference between them is almost precisely the difference between Islamophobia and homophobia. (Almost.)

[Gravekeeper]

I seem to have drifted even further left from the last time we did this a few months back.

[Andara Bledin]

Perhaps in your desire to distance yourself from the "fuck 'em, I got mine" mentality typically espoused by the far right, you're pulling further left?

^-.-^

[ExRetailDrone]

Looks like I've moved slightly more towards the left and towards the libertarian side of things since the last time I took it as well...

[Gravekeeper]

So our dots are so horrified by the right lately that they're actually trying to flee further to the left now? >.>

At least you didn't move from Gandhi to Stalin in the last 6 months.

[ExRetailDrone]

I think my dot is horrendously horrified by the right and the way they're trying to wriggle up my uterus and into my private life rather than focusing on the problems and issues that actually matter. But I could never be an authoritarian like Stalin. And I swear, since moving across the world, seeing things a bit more from the outside looking in makes it even more insane >.<

[Jaden]

And I suppose my dot is so horrified by both, it tries to huddle up in the center?