Sanders is from Vermont. That state really sounds like the home of socialism in the States if the people there are like Bernie.
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Sanders is from Vermont. That state really sounds like the home of socialism in the States if the people there are like Bernie.
benjipwns
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Those taking the quiz from other countries should note which parties they vote for/prefer in their own country.
Also, there's an Aussie version: http://australia.isidewith.com/political-quiz
EDIT: On that I get:
Also, there's an Aussie version: http://australia.isidewith.com/political-quiz
EDIT: On that I get:
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44% Liberals
13% Labor
8% GreensI'm Swedish, and had 97% Sanders, 88% Clinton, closest Republican was Huckabee at 30%.
What really surprised me is that, when taking these kinds of polls in Sweden, I'm usually a lot closer to the left than our right, but still our "right wing" parties, I've got around 70% in common with. The only parties I'm not really close with are our Christian Democrats, and Swedish Democrats (xenophobic party).
Looking at the party tab of the results, I'm at 4% with the republicans. It really shows how much left our "right wing" parties really are in Sweden, and that after all, they're pretty damned close. And it shows, how opposed the Republicans and Democrats are in the US, more so than I really ever though.
Also:
benjipwns
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They aren't really. The main thing is that they're massive big tent parties. Because there's only "two" forces. It's not like in Sweden (and Europe writ large) where multiple parties can win significant representation.
So the Republicans are a horrible mish-mash of your Moderate, Sweden Democrats, Centre, Liberal People's Party, and Christian Democrats. Whereas you get five parties to represent those interests, they have to fight together and between each other within the GOP.
Conversely, the Democratic Party is a horrible mish-mash of your Liberal People's Party, Centre, and Social Democratic with some touches of the Left and Green Parties along the edges. And like the GOP they have to stand together on generalities even as they stand apart on specifics.
Effectively we have your coalition governments and opposition running against each other on two unified platforms constantly. Whereas you can have the Centre Party split off and form a government with the Moderate and Christian Democrats just as much as they can form one with the Social Democrats.
That's not an option in the United States, you get the whole package of the Democrats or the whole package of the Republicans. The compromises that come from coalitions governments are baked into their disgusting big tent pies. It's much harder for them to break apart and form new coalitions.
This used to be much more pronounced, the Republicans had the Old Right and the Progressives/Rockefeller Republicans who ran the gamut of the spectrum, and the Democrats had the New Dealers and the Southern Conservatives who basically ran from your Social Democrats to your Sweden Democrats in one single party. And before that the Republicans were the "left-wing" party.
But now you're leashed much more to the party because of the necessity of party support, and since the parties are a horrible mash up of unlike factions you wind up with the incoherence and yet grouping that we have today which sends the parties all over the place without actual ideologies behind them as much as opposition to the other, whatever the other is proposing. Even if it was what you proposed last week.
I think that if the two parties were split up into say ten parties, things would look much more like the rest of the West, with the U.S. being only slightly more center-right on non-social issues, and the major difference being much more religious which creates a harsher social issue wedge.
Although to be fair, a lot of the Social Democrats/Labour/Liberals/etc. of Europe/Canada have governed much more to the right than their platforms. IIRC, it was your Social Democrats who carried out privatizations, tax reforms and spending cuts in the 1990s. Similarity it was our "center-right" (Eisenhower/Nixon/Ford/even Reagan) that baked in the social welfare state of the New Deal and Great Society along with civil rights and other social liberal advances. The New Left was eating their own and trying to push farther faster which could have caused a much bigger reactionary political force to emerge and roll it back.
Thanks for the writeup, and you are correct in parts, about Republicans being an umbrella for a lot of different views. but according to the website (I know, it's not the best measurement of one's politics), I agree with the whole party at 4%, that's insanely low, that means on almost every single issue that I selected, I'm opposed to the Republicans. That's just mind blowing to me. I'd imagine, with them being an umbrella for a lot of different views, at least some, at least more than 4% of them would intersect with mine.
My results come as no surprise to me.
Sanders: 99%
Clinton: 89%
O'Malley: 67%
Christie: 36%
Trump: 31%
Paul: 27%
Bush: 18%
Walker: 16%
Carson: 5%
Cruz: 0%
http://i.imgur.com/FS3mWu3.png
Sanders: 99%
Clinton: 89%
O'Malley: 67%
Christie: 36%
Trump: 31%
Paul: 27%
Bush: 18%
Walker: 16%
Carson: 5%
Cruz: 0%
http://i.imgur.com/FS3mWu3.png
OrlanisWorks
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I'm only 45% NeoGAFfian... 
Sanders and Hil-dog are tops. Sadly, I'm 10% related to Trump.
Sanders and Hil-dog are tops. Sadly, I'm 10% related to Trump.
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timetokill
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Pfft.
No questions on NASA or space exploration, which is one of the most important issues in my decision.
I won't support a candidate that doesn't recognize the value of NASA and continued space exploration.
No questions on NASA or space exploration, which is one of the most important issues in my decision.
I won't support a candidate that doesn't recognize the value of NASA and continued space exploration.
Do you have a personal preference? Any idea which way you'll be voting, or are several candidates close enough for you to be unsure so far?
Think you have to go there from a GAF page. That's what happened to me at least.
Only 38% BTW. Ideology defined as centrist/left.
88% Bernie. Unsurprising as he's pretty much the candidate for geeky white dudes on the Internet.
AstroNut325
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So I took screen captures to establish a reference point of the data. If I get a chance, I'll try to get another snapshot of the data after the first few debates.
Bernie vs. Hilary:
Abortion:
Campaign Finance/SuperPACs:
Decrease Military Spending:
Cut government spending:
Decriminalize Drugs:
Increase environmental regulations:
Increased Gun Control:
Amnesty for illegal immigrants:
Obamacare:
Offshore drilling:
Raise Minimum Wage:
Reduce corporate taxes:
I uploaded more here: http://imgur.com/a/mV5ci#1
Bernie vs. Hilary:
Abortion:
Campaign Finance/SuperPACs:
Decrease Military Spending:
Cut government spending:
Decriminalize Drugs:
Increase environmental regulations:
Increased Gun Control:
Amnesty for illegal immigrants:
Obamacare:
Offshore drilling:
Raise Minimum Wage:
Reduce corporate taxes:
I uploaded more here: http://imgur.com/a/mV5ci#1
benjipwns
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This actually used to be two of the questions on the test but they're constantly changing many of them except the "core" ones.
Hmm, a good point that I never thought about. Is there somewhere that I can look up the candidates stances on this topic and similar ones?
My results
- Bernie - 96%
- Hillary - 87%
- O'Malley - 76%
benjipwns
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Ted Cruz has been in favor of much more space exploration from NASA and refocusing it all on that, he's chairman of whatever the Senate Committee for that is.
Jeb! has said he wants to increase NASA funding and considers himself a "space guy" whatever that means.
Rand Paul wants to cut funding in general across the board so that'd include NASA, and Rick Santorum was against all of Newt's stuff in 2012 and said something like rather than going back to the moon we should scrap NASA because terrorism is more important or something.
That's about all I can find out on the candidates and NASA.
Jeb! has said he wants to increase NASA funding and considers himself a "space guy" whatever that means.
Rand Paul wants to cut funding in general across the board so that'd include NASA, and Rick Santorum was against all of Newt's stuff in 2012 and said something like rather than going back to the moon we should scrap NASA because terrorism is more important or something.
That's about all I can find out on the candidates and NASA.
googleplex
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Hmm..
Bernie - 87%
Hillary - 83%
Since i don't think Bernie can win, its good to know that I still agree with Hill-Dog on a lot of things.
Bernie - 87%
Hillary - 83%
Since i don't think Bernie can win, its good to know that I still agree with Hill-Dog on a lot of things.
chaosblade
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Sanders said he is in favor of increasing NASA's budget, but it seems like a lower priority for him. From his AMA.
timetokill
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Hopefully they add it back. I got in touch with them on twitter and they seem to be open to it if they can find candidate statements on it.
Let me know if you find one!
One of my biggest issues with Democrats is that they generally undervalue NASA, which is weird but whatever. Even if the Republicans only want it for a global dick-waving contest that's still better than under-funding it.
Point for Cruz and Jeb on that, at least. I think I saw somewhere that Hillary was in favor of increasing NASA's budget but I can't seem to find it anymore.
I found a post from /r/space discussing Sanders older and current views about NASA.
The Vermont Senate says space exploration should receive more funding. He echos those views in his recent AMA which was quoted a few post above this. In 04' though he and 116 other dems voted 'no' for promoting commercialized space flight. More is explained at the link but that's the gist of it.
Hillary I haven't been able to find any solid statement about it but the traveling word is she will always try to protect what her husband accomplished during his time but it's not a huge concern to her. A rough quote from her was along the lines of "NASA and space exploration is important but we still have other issues to deal with that have little no to money so those come first".
Republicans seem to be more open to the idea of space exploration and possible privatization (I'd have to research more) but I'm going to assume more dems are going to start swaying their views once the end time starts getting closer.
Gun control always gets me. I still wonder how the majority of Americans wouldn't be for increased gun control. Do they all have guns? Do they think if there was increased gun control they couldn't have guns? Do they use their guns so much that increased control would just slow it down and that just can't happen?
It's not even taking away guns. It's just increased control and STILL people can't handle it
That said, interestingly
Sanders: 94%
Neogaf: 21%
Didn't expect that considering all the love for Bernie here
It's not even taking away guns. It's just increased control and STILL people can't handle it
That said, interestingly
Sanders: 94%
Neogaf: 21%
Didn't expect that considering all the love for Bernie here
hockeypuck
Member
Bernie 92%
Hillary 89%
Wasn't expecting Bernie to come up top. I think I'll actually register and vote for once.
Hillary 89%
Wasn't expecting Bernie to come up top. I think I'll actually register and vote for once.
MrFortyFive
Member
Took this a few days ago. I don't remember all of them but Bernie came out on top at 99% and Hillary in second at somewhere around 90%. I'll definitely be voting for Bernie in the primaries.
Charles Alan Ratliff
Member
Just took mine. I figured Bernie Sanders would be #1, though it is nice to see Hillary second. I'm also happy that Ted Cruz is last.
Dedication Through Light
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I got
Odd I didnt do anything to the test but my results changed. I guess new data was added?
Admiral Woofington
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Dtl how the hell are you so into yaoi and get republicans lol
Alpha Centauri
Member
89 Bernie
83 Hillary
76 o'Malley
69 Jeb
41 Neogaf
I failed you Gaf.
I am what is known as a left wing authoritarian apparently.
83 Hillary
76 o'Malley
69 Jeb
41 Neogaf
I failed you Gaf.
I am what is known as a left wing authoritarian apparently.
Black Republican
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Your political beliefs would be considered moderately Left-Wing Authoritarian on an ideological scale, meaning you tend to stand up and protect those who are oppressed or taken advantage of and believe the government should do the same.
30yearsofhurt
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I got Bernie with 93%.
Is this website made by Bernie Sanders?
What an arsehole I am.
Is this website made by Bernie Sanders?
What an arsehole I am.
Veritigo_X
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Do you write up this disclaimer for every website posted on gaf?
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