Depending on how I answered a couple questions I wasn't so sure about, I got Solid Liberal, Post-Modern, or Libertarian: http://people-press.org/typology/quiz/

The other categories are Bystander, Disaffected, New Coalition Democrat, Hard-Pressed Democrat, Main Street Republican, and Staunch Republican; to make the typology, first the Bystanders (those who weren't registered to vote and had no intention of voting) were removed, and then the rest of the participants in the survey this quiz was excerpted from were assorted using cluster analysis into 8 groups by using scores on 9 different political scales.

5/7/2011 9:12:31 AM

What category does it make me if I got pissed off at the questions and didn't finish the quiz?

5/7/2011 9:25:06 AM

Post Modern

5/7/2011 10:20:34 AM

Post-Moderns

5/7/2011 10:31:53 AM

Post-Modern

question 20 is bs, i didn't know how to answer it

5/7/2011 10:36:25 AM

sigh what a shitty, inadequate poll

"where do you lie right of center?"

5/7/2011 10:38:02 AM

Your whole "I'm the most radical militant leftist in the land" shtick is boring and lame.

When did you develop such an infantile political ideology anyway? You've managed to bring the whole hipster-academia-liberal-nutjob stereotype that people sort of joke about but didn't actually think really existed or took seriously into full 1080p 3d color...and I think we're matter of factly repulsed at what we see.

[Edited on May 7, 2011 at 10:49 AM. Reason : l]

5/7/2011 10:49:08 AM

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"Your whole "I'm the most radical militant leftist in the land" shtick is boring and lame."

I'm not remotely "militant" last time I checked I stick to my work. The point remains that the entire American political discussion is truncated.

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"When did you develop such an infantile political ideology anyway? You've managed to bring the whole hipster-academia-liberal-nutjob stereotype that people sort of joke about but didn't actually think really existed or took seriously into full 1080p 3d color...and I think we're matter of factly repulsed at what we see."

lol your ignorance is a marvelous spectacle

why is it right-wingers have such remarkable little exposure to their own political intellectual history?

The problem with people like you is that you assume I'm clueless just like yourself. When you say things like this you seem remarkably fucking stupid to anybody who's read even 1/10th of political economy from the modern era

[Edited on May 7, 2011 at 11:03 AM. Reason : .]

5/7/2011 11:01:53 AM

What am I being ignorant of? I've seen about 5 references in the past week or so where you've made it a point to say that the current crop of (undefined) liberals aren't liberal as if we should give you some hemp award or something.

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"political intellectual history?"

What are you even babbling about? I'll assure you right wingers don't have a monopoly on whatever it is you're getting at.

5/7/2011 11:06:11 AM

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"What am I being ignorant of? I've seen about 5 references in the past week or so where you've made it a point to say that the current crop of (undefined) liberals aren't liberal as if we should give you some hemp award or something."

I said they're not leftists. Other than being generally ignorant of what I type (being happy to substitute in what you imagine me to say?) you are ignorant of the established possibility space of political (and economic) positions.

If you honestly think I'm a petulant little shit-head for pointing this out over and over again, then you reveal yourself to be a gullible fool, soaking up the US narrative rather than reading and finding out for yourself.

I seriously wonder what you spend your time on because it's clearly not reading, and you're clearly not an intellectually curious individual. You're waste of time, but maybe somebody else will realize through this demonstration that 10+ years of empty pontification on the internet results in as much ignorance as it started with. Fuck off I'm done

5/7/2011 11:12:04 AM

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"sigh what a shitty, inadequate poll"

Yeah on at least 3 questions I found myself thinking "no, both of those answers are equally stupid and wrong." Many others were merely inadequate and overly reliant on the presentation of only 2 choices. It's not just the lack of a gradation between the two sides, but the false assumption that there are not 3rd or 4th answers that fall outside the traditional and limited left v. right.

[Edited on May 7, 2011 at 12:18 PM. Reason : ]

5/7/2011 12:14:08 PM

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"you are ignorant of the established possibility space of political"

Not in the least.

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"I'm a petulant little shit-head for pointing this out over and over again"

No, I think you're a petulant little shit-head for other reason. You aren't pointing it out here to educate anyone or even care what anyone else thinks. You're here to be play an elitist academic who routinely lets us know he is too good to post here...but still does.

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"you're clearly not an intellectually curious individual"

However false this may be, lets assume that it's true. To what ends? So I can go to a defunct message board and feel confident I know more than the other guy on the end of the internets? You somehow looking down your nose at me because I'm not as studied in the areas you choose to be as studied in? Well fuck dude...let me start listing out all the shit you are clueless in and point and laugh on the internet. Really?

5/7/2011 12:31:53 PM

McDanger has become a caricature of himself

5/7/2011 12:37:20 PM

What an absurd questionnaire. With many of those "choices," both were dead wrong. The left to right political spectrum is outdated, and has largely been used to pit Americans against each other.

5/7/2011 1:22:29 PM

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"you are ignorant of the established possibility space of political (and economic) positions"

The grammar of this statement may have caused me to misunderstand it, but if you're saying what I think you're saying, you're being hypocritical. Your dependence on terms like "right-winger" in this forum - even when responding to classically liberal/leftist/radical positions - seem to indicate it is you who have an overly narrow understanding of the range of political identities in this country.

5/7/2011 1:46:02 PM

Some of these "Who They Are" facts are basically "Let us help you stereotype people" facts. Like the percentage that follow NASCAR. Is that important at all in this discussion?

5/7/2011 1:47:34 PM

I got Libertarian

5/7/2011 2:06:40 PM

I got Solid Liberal.

It's funny because I generally think of myself as being a bit more right than that.

5/7/2011 3:28:47 PM

Post-modern

5/7/2011 3:30:41 PM

Post-Modern

5/7/2011 4:42:05 PM

Dixiecrat

5/7/2011 5:16:37 PM

Post Modern

5/7/2011 5:30:45 PM

If you look at this just slightly deeper than the immediate face value of the questions themselves, it is absolutely not a simple left/right dichotomy-type spectrum. The only reason it separates the different types into shades of red/blue is that we have 2 major political parties in the U.S., and the groups it outlines tend towards one party or the other (although many of the groups diverge significantly from the platform of the party that they are most oriented towards. That doesn't mean it is simply creating a linear spectrum, categorizing each group as varying degrees of left/right.

For my part, I got categorized as a libertarian, and the descriptions of "who they are" and "what they believe" describe me exactly. This is despite the fact that, on a number of questions, I looked at the two answers and said "These are damned near equally terrible viewpoints."

The "magic" isn't in the questions--they certainly aren't comprehensive, wide-ranging, or constructed to recognize subtleties/grey areas/nuances. The way that the analysis of the responses is conducted doesn't require that sort of questionnaire. Some of you may remember a thread or two I made a while back--neither of which ever really got good discussion or a satisfactory answer--about why people believe what they believe, in terms of predictive association of ideologically unrelated issues. This is addressed--at least statistically, if not philosophically or psychologically--by the "cluster analysis" of the responses.

Additionally, McDanger is a huge douche.

5/7/2011 5:38:09 PM

I got Post-Modern, but I feel like several of the questions were a "false dichotomy" of sorts, for instance the "Government should do whatever it takes to protect the environment" or "The Government has gone too far in protecting the environment". My personal belief is that we should do anything that is economically feasible and that there is still much that we can do, but that middle ground is not accurately represented by the given choices. there were a couple others like that, but you will know them when you see them.

5/7/2011 5:38:21 PM

Read my post made 12 seconds before yours.

5/7/2011 5:41:24 PM

post modern

5/7/2011 6:32:57 PM

Libertarian

5/7/2011 8:23:55 PM

Many questions didn't represent my opinion either way,and I didn't agree with the outcome, but I got Post-Modern

5/7/2011 8:35:29 PM

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"The left to right political spectrum is outdated"

Pew agrees with you; the clusters were based on a model that uses 9 axes.

[Edited on May 7, 2011 at 10:24 PM. Reason : Also the original survey had a lot more than just 20 questions.

5/7/2011 10:23:31 PM

retarded poll

5/7/2011 10:26:36 PM

bag of dicks

5/9/2011 4:35:35 PM

Hmmm... one of the least religious, most well educated, and youngest types. Big surprise:

Post Modern

5/9/2011 7:09:58 PM

Most questions didn't represent my opinion either way

but i got libertarian

5/9/2011 9:22:10 PM

Post-Modern

5/9/2011 10:05:45 PM

Funny how the responses have been all but exclusively "libertarian" and "post-modern". If that's at all representative of where the country will be headed with the ascent into power of our generation(s), then that's actually encouraging.

Maybe someday I will get to vote again.

5/9/2011 10:54:39 PM

its pretty hard to not be one of those with the poll questions

5/9/2011 11:11:14 PM

National Socialist

5/10/2011 3:52:58 AM

^^^Keep in mind that idiots enemies of freedom social conservatives are poorly represented here; almost all of us have graduated from college or will soon, so we would naturally fit into "Solid Liberal" or "Post-Modern" or "Libertarian" (mainly based on just how poorly we think of the government trying to help people, and how problematic we think racism still is).

OTOH poor rural folk with little education are more likely to be socially conservative and economically liberal, like a "Hard-Pressed Democrat" or "Disaffected"; the "Staunch Republicans" are actually a little better-educated than the general public, but still they are not prominent here either.
Similarly, the "Main Street Republicans" and "New Coalition Democrats" are fairly socially conservative, but they're also more likely to be out running their own small businesses or something, and also they are poorly educated.

5/10/2011 5:26:58 AM

I liked the poll. I didn't agree with about 3/4 of the responses that I was forced to give, but I think that's kinda point. They force you to choose between the lesser of two evils, and if you do that enough times, they can kinda narrow you down into a box. Of course, everybody hates getting put in a box.

I'm a solid liberal. What up, nastoute!!!

5/10/2011 8:57:39 AM

Solid liberal. I'm sure the god questions put me over the top.

5/10/2011 9:04:14 AM

Libertarian

5/10/2011 9:17:24 AM

I got solid liberal but I didn't expect that and don't really agree completely.

5/10/2011 11:10:38 AM

^^^^IMO it would have been better if the full set of survey questions were used

then again it would have seemed too daunting

5/10/2011 8:14:03 PM

solid liberal

5/10/2011 8:32:12 PM

A chick get's it and now all the dudes are "Solid Liberals".

I was one before it was cool.

5/11/2011 12:48:33 PM

Post Modern however the first question pissed me off. Religion is very important to me. I feel that a lot of what is wrong with this country is based of adherence to religion.

5/11/2011 12:59:58 PM

Whig

5/11/2011 1:03:39 PM

Libertarian

5/11/2011 1:18:50 PM

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"What category does it make me if I got pissed off at the questions and didn't finish the quiz?"

this...i haven't finished, yet, but these questions are retarded

only some of them are capable of being so black-and-white

[Edited on May 11, 2011 at 1:21 PM. Reason : post-modern]

5/11/2011 1:20:01 PM

they should have a final part where you get a sliding scale to rate how much you bitched about the fucking questions

5/11/2011 1:21:31 PM