USA Politics
- Thread starter Genghis Khan
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If you asked me straight out, I'd tell you that I'm anti-big government and anti-collectivism. On the other hand, a lot of the questions asked simply don't arise where I live, and I'd also answer some questions differently for America than for where I am.
Collin
Chasing Ponce De Leon's Phantoms
So that would be an American Libertarian?
bearfan
Ancient Mariner
.. so the Know Nothing Party might be ready to be pulled out of mothballs
KidInTheDark666
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
Interesting. Compared to Finnish political quizzes these results look very different. I answered every single question and added a specific stance to almost all of them, which explains the low numbers.
Magnus
Pica Serdica
I'm a democratic socialist. I think the government should run health care, infrastructure, national defense, and other important quality of life items. As a Canadian, I'm fairly middle of the road, but for an American, I'd be a hippie-commie.
bearfan
Ancient Mariner
Take a shower you damn hippie
Right after you stop goose-stepping, you fascist
The Flash
Dennis Wilcock did 9/11
If that's the extent of it, I'd say that's social democracy, not democratic socialism. Democratic socialism favors an eventual transition from capitalism to socialism, social democracy does not.
KidInTheDark666
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine too
It's funny how big of a difference switching order of the words makes in politics.
The Flash
Dennis Wilcock did 9/11
Yeah. Bit annoying, which is why I try to refrain from putting an ideological label on where I am positioned. It's especially annoying in American political discourse, because there's an abundance of misnomers and a lack of nuanced approaches.
The case of social democracy and democratic socialism is more understandable when you are familiar with the history of it, how the social democratic movement was broken in half after World War II into factions that favored Keynesian welfare capitalism and gave up on wanting to transition to socialism and one that was still in favor of a transition to socialism, favoring a system in which a democratic government oversees a market consisting of enterprises managed by the workers, co-operatives and all.
GhostofCain
Ancient Mariner
Unsurprisingly, for the USA I am on the far left...
Basically, in order to hit the donor threshold for the 3rd debate, some candidates are blowing tons of money to try to get $1 donations to up their unique donor numbers, and potentially bankrupting their campaigns. It is presented as a bug, but I believe it is a feature. Too many Democrats that don't have a chance to win need to be cut off and allowed to die.
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
So, the President of the US criticizes the PM of Sweden for not meddling in the criminal case against an American rapper who is arrested in Sweden, charged with violent conduct.
And claims that Sweden has let down the African-American community.
When did he ever care about that community himself?
In a sensible world, the Democrats should be able to run a random grassroot person next year and beat him, but ...
And claims that Sweden has let down the African-American community.
When did he ever care about that community himself?
In a sensible world, the Democrats should be able to run a random grassroot person next year and beat him, but ...
Dr. Eddies Wingman
Brighter than thousand_suns
No, sod that. They should be able to run with a Golden Retriever and win.
A dog is every bit as competent as Trump and a hell of a lot more likeable.
A dog is every bit as competent as Trump and a hell of a lot more likeable.
