If I remember right, this quiz is a British Libertarian quiz so that might account for some left leanings.
Through all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh we just would go insane. - Jimmy Buffett
Green Arrow (03-15-2015),Peter1469 (03-15-2015),Ravens Fan (03-15-2015)
I wouldn't bother. The people who label us as liberal are idiots.
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GrassrootsConservative (03-15-2015),Green Arrow (03-15-2015),Ravens Fan (03-15-2015)
Through all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh we just would go insane. - Jimmy Buffett
Green Arrow (03-15-2015),Ravens Fan (03-15-2015)
Terms like "left," "right," "liberal," "conservative," are all relatively meaningless in an American context. They have vastly different meanings elsewhere in the world. If Bibi Netanyahu was born an American and ran for President, he'd be jeered as a socialist, because in Israeli politics he is "right-wing" but, like pretty much all Israeli politicians, supports a strong welfare state and "socialized" healthcare. It's similar throughout Europe. American political divisions don't really exist anywhere else in the world.
"Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least."
- Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926), five-time Socialist Party candidate for U.S. President
PolWatch (03-15-2015)
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Yes, but I do think there must be some sort of skew on the "authoritarian/libertarian" axis and I seem to recall having brought something like that up in the old thread. The more left someone is the more authoritarian they are anyway.
/Edit: It's easy when you think about like Chloe and Polly and stuff. Those people are shown left/Libertarian on the chart, but we all know those two to be very authoritarian.
Last edited by GrassrootsConservative; 03-15-2015 at 06:27 PM.
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
It's all subjective. I can say for a fact that nic34 is left of me, whereas maybe someone more extreme like Polly might wonder how he could be so far to the right. It's the same reason why so many in 2008 could have thought that Obama was a moderate. When viewed next to someone like the idiot we had in office for the previous 8 years he probably did look moderate. Now we see he's probably even more extreme.