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- Smoking Guns
- Rep: 330
- Smoking Guns
- Rep: 330
Re: 2016 Presidential Election Thread
Holy fuck, I represent the center!!! I am what we should hope every politician to be! Hahaha
Re: 2016 Presidential Election Thread
Most politicians UK and US (no offence intended) par up on Authoritarian right to some extent. Even politicians people assume to be leaning left. It's just nature.
Loads of people have simulated this. Obama/Clinton are never that far from republicans as you'd think.
- Smoking Guns
- Rep: 330
Re: 2016 Presidential Election Thread
You and I have almost the exact same score!
- Smoking Guns
- Rep: 330
Re: 2016 Presidential Election Thread
polluxlm wrote:Why do you say?
I didn't think my views were as left or as close to libertarian as the chart suggests, although I like Bernie and could have been talked into voting for Ron Paul.
Honestly based off your posts I thought you were a lefty too...
Re: 2016 Presidential Election Thread
Someone should take the time to do this for Trump, Cruz, Hillary and Bernie to see where they are on the spectrum based on their published policies.
Well, I should have figured that someone would have done this already, and the website hosting the test would be a likely candidate:
So we all should be voting for Sanders based on this (even SG and Polluxlm), especially if you consider yourself a libertarian 
. If this is a reliable picture (big if), the American people are sorely misrepresented by their leadership (and vice versa) and it does explain why Sanders is such a runaway success with younger people.
For those of you that have called Sanders a communist before, I recommend reading the paragraph about him on https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016 (replicated here):
Quite why Sanders is describing himself to the American electorate — of all electorates — as a 'socialist' or 'democratic socialist' isn't clear. His economics are Keynesian or Galbraithian, in common with mainstream parties of the left in the rest of the west — the Labour or Social Democrat parties. Surely 'Social Democrat' would be a more accurate and appealing label for the Sanders campaign to adopt. While Sanders claims to admire particularly the Scandinavian model, he neglects to point out that a characteristic of all social democracies is a low defence budget, reflecting not only a degree of anti-militarism, but also social spending as a priority. Beyond tinkering, though, Sanders has no appetite for significantly cutting the Herculean defence budget or criticising imperial adventures. His urging for the World's most authoritarian country, Saudi Arabia, to assert a stronger military presence in the Middle East is a bizarre position for a social democrat to hold. These odd clusters of attitudes are reflected in our placement of Sanders. Domestically the man is an undoubted progressive — not the least for his courageous attack on corporate campaign funding. But on foreign policy, you could expect a President Sanders to be strikingly similar to his predecessors.
Not a bad assessment, in my view.
- Smoking Guns
- Rep: 330
Re: 2016 Presidential Election Thread
Well, no way this is accurate now...
There were NOT enough questions about economic policy and there was no "indifferent" it was either agree or disagree which skews you to a certain direction. Sanders should be down there by the Mole and Big Bri honestly because we know Pollux and I don't jive with Sanders that closely. I jive with him on somethings however.
