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The Great RPGSITE political poll:

Started by mattormeg, October 26, 2006, 07:27:05 PM

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mattormeg

October 26, 2006, 07:27:05 PM
Vote if you want to...

beejazz

#1
October 26, 2006, 08:09:41 PM
Last I checked most posters here were fiercely independant, or at least pretending to be, and would be ticked if you called them "left" or "right"... or especially if you called them centrist.

James McMurray

#2
October 26, 2006, 09:13:39 PM
I went with right-moderate. I agree with a lot of principals on the right, but realize their futility or lack of power to be enforced. For instance, gun control would rock but it's an impossibility. I could never order a non-health related abortion but know it's not my place to tell others they can't either.

mattormeg

#3
October 26, 2006, 09:14:49 PM
You might be right. I'm thinking that a lot of people skew left here, myself.

droog

#4
October 27, 2006, 04:17:28 AM
I think it's a good idea to keep in mind that Left and Right are rather imprecise and shifting terms, prone to be coloured by the user's own ideology.
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The poor still weak the rich still rule
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Mr. Analytical

#5
October 27, 2006, 05:21:05 AM
They're also culturally defined.

The American moderate right is our hard right, their extreme left is our moderate left and their hard right is essentially jackboots, concentration camps and Billy Graham for President.

droog

#6
October 27, 2006, 08:16:40 AM
And what is the Parti communiste français?
The past lives on in your front room
The poor still weak the rich still rule
History lives in the books at home
The books at home

Gang of Four
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mattormeg

#7
October 27, 2006, 08:20:23 AM
I'm aware of all of this, but I think if people put on their thinking caps they can probably find themselves somewhere in the Left/Right spectrum.

Samarkand

#8
October 27, 2006, 09:38:52 AM
I believe my political beliefs map out to "enlightened views" vs. "the rest of you unwashed heathen".  Oddly, this is well nigh universal for everyone else's political stance...

     Seriously--classic liberal, with a suspicion for always taking the statist solution when a non-governmental approach would do.  At time flirting with minarchy, just not when I'm receiving government assistance.

Andrew
 

Weekly

#9
October 27, 2006, 10:50:05 AM
Quote from: droogAnd what is the Parti communiste français?
A zombie.
 

Joey2k

#10
October 27, 2006, 01:29:08 PM
None of the Above.

Extreme libertarian just shy of anarcho-capitalist.
I'm/a/dude

flyingmice

#11
October 27, 2006, 01:57:53 PM
I can't fit myself on that scale at all. Us anarcho-libertarians don't fit well into Left-Right matrices.

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droog

#12
October 27, 2006, 08:12:08 PM
Quote from: mattormegI'm aware of all of this, but I think if people put on their thinking caps they can probably find themselves somewhere in the Left/Right spectrum.
I'm aware of roughly where many people would place me. I, on the other hand, would feel compelled to sit down with these people and deliver them a political lecture.
The past lives on in your front room
The poor still weak the rich still rule
History lives in the books at home
The books at home

Gang of Four
[/size]

droog

#13
October 27, 2006, 09:12:53 PM
Quote from: WeeklyA zombie.
Fuck – I think you may have put your finger on a widespread phenomenon in modern politics!
The past lives on in your front room
The poor still weak the rich still rule
History lives in the books at home
The books at home

Gang of Four
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palehorse

#14
October 27, 2006, 10:00:11 PM
Left-moderate. I'm pretty far left on social issues - pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage, that sort of thing - but somewhere around the middle on most everything else.

In Oklahoma, that's still enough to make me a filthy hippie.
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