You didn't watch the presidential debate last night

@Comissar @Boozha you two want to do the quiz? I need more data.

 

I think politics shouldn't be black and white and I consider it a positive thing to be a centrist. Your point of view in politics is based on whether you care more about personal freedoms or equality for everyone. Finding a healthy balance between being selfish and selfless. Sure at different points in my life I have gone from extremely liberal to extremely conservative and now I have arrived in the center for now. My decision to care more about the environment was a tipping point for me and put me at the center many years ago. Becoming a vegetarian might have influenced that as well. Who's to say I am done growing politically. I may well become an ardent communist in the future if that ideology were to reform some of it's ridiculous principles and become a truly selfless form of government. Sad to face reality communism will always end up granting power to a precious few who decide the fate of the many who have the illusion of unity and freedom.

 

I just choose to imagine Lushiris as s stoic man-person who dislikes all candidates equally. doesn't mean I think he doesn't care.

I agree, of course politics shouldn't be black and white, and it isn't really a question about wether you care more or less but what you care about and how you think issues should be resolved. I am however a bit baffled that you do not see that this:

applies also to free unrestrained capitalism.

the main thing I really believe is a problem is how you guys place the economy over the enviroment. placing short term over long term is usually not the wisest decision. and I wish you would reconsider.

 

http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/2647968263

96% Jill Stein
82% Clinton
41% Gary Johnson
18% Trump

Spieky, I don't know what you are doing, but I guess your cat filled in the marks for you if you got 88% Trump

 

so we got me:

Boozha:


Newsbuff ( and spieky somewhere close to him?):


and Lushiris and Profhulk as centrists.

 

Gary Johnson is the guy you vote for if you don't want hillary or trump purely for not wanting those two.

He's incredibly incapable when it comes down to it. There's no legit options left in the US

 

I think the big thing that I did different from a lot of y'all is that I weighted social issues as less important to me, and economic issues as more important, which, by itself, probably shoved me pretty far into the "Republican" category.

 

Ah but see;

the economy will be stabilized by a married gay transgender child of a Syrian refugee and a mexican immigrant who benefited from less restrictions on assistance and medical aid paid for by the state through raised taxed on corporations and the rich, a person who would have never been able to make it that far without slashing the cost of higher education!

not by whatever strange convoluted plan you made up.

 

Ugh, that white male privilege

No seriously though, that's probably why boozer has 96% on ma'am green party

 

In my mind creating jobs only happens one way. Smaller companies replace a larger one, and the money that would have gone to the executives instead goes to multiple lower paid people. Everything else is shifting jobs from one place to another.

 

My stance on abortions and some geopolitical things, more likely

 

Because Gerb insisted

No real surprises. Also, I did see your response ProfHulk, just a bit too weary to address it now. Will answer some point tomorrow/thursday.

 

I also believe that people should be able to refuse services that violate their religious beliefs, that the government shouldn't fund PP, that withdrawing from NATO would be wrong, that immigrants should learn English (with free courses), and that candidates should not be forced to make their tax returns public.

Those are pretty much my disagreements. I agree with her on the rest.

 

Actually a bit suprised by how you are moderate left and more authoritarian than anyone we've seen placed on the political spectrum so far.

 

The problem is, most of the questions were economic or immigration policy based, and I think I weighted them a little more heavily than I perhaps should have. Very few science/health care policy questions, which personally I think are the biggest issues. Also, it's too easy to just go 'most' or 'somewhat' and ignore the other bits of the sliders. I feel like just different wordings on the 'yes/no' would do the trick of providing a scale.

Edit - Was curious, and a map of the US shows maybe three places that hold similar views, so I'm willing to bet my views are still more left leaning than most regions of the states

 

But I thought the question was if people should be able to refuse service to people they feel violate their religious beliefs.

as in: A person should be able to refuse free bacon on free bacon day because of religious beliefs
A person should not be able to deny another medical help or roadside assistance based on their religious beliefs. because they suspect the person had eaten free bacon.

Did I misunderstand the question?