Quiz - Which Political Party would you belong to?

[Queequeg]

NYT quiz - if there were six political parties in the US, based on your views, which one would you likely belong to?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... =url-share

I would be on the socially liberal end of the Labor Party, which sounds about right.

[Malcolm]

NYT quiz - if there were six political parties in the US, based on your views, which one would you likely belong to?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... =url-share

I would be on the socially liberal end of the Labor Party, which sounds about right.

Progressive Party, of course. As far to the left as you can go, but not all the way down in the left hand corner.

[reiun]

Progressive Party.

[Archie2009]

I've always voted as far left as possible in our parliamentary & municipal elections, either socialist or greens, not labour. (Communist parties ceased to exist before I got the vote and wouldn't get my support.) But with the adoption of woke ideology by some parties on the left, I am in danger of becoming politically homeless. I will never vote for regressive, destructive woke nonsense.

If I were American, I would simply stay home. I have come to despise the Democrats as much as the Republicans. No small feat.

(Also, I've never read Marx (puts me to sleep) and loath German philosophy.)

[Malcolm]

I will never vote for regressive, destructive woke nonsense.

"Wokeness" is just a meme pushed by Fox News as a dog whistle for racists, both consciousness and unconsciousness.

However the term "woke" has a venerable history in black community in the US, dating the 1930's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke

"I advise everybody, be a little careful when they go along through there – best stay woke, keep their eyes open."

--Scottsboro Boys, Leadbelly

I will certainly use the term, just like the term "Yankee" for New Englanders, which came originally from a satiric song originally sung by the Redcoats, Yankee Doodle Dandy. Much to the chagrin of the British troops it was adopted as a marching song by the Continental Army, rather in the same way Trumpsters flocked to Clinton's disastrous appellation for them, "deplorables."

To the tune of Turn the Beat Around:

Turn the meme around
Love to hear repercussions
Turn it upside down
Love to hear repercussions
Love to hear it...

[Sādhaka]

I always thought that “woke” had the sense of the Nation of Islam/Moorish Science Temple/Nation of Gods and Earths type of thinking, that distrusted the government, corporations, big pharma, monsanto, etc.

Years ago I used to participate on forums where there was a lot of this, and I was considered to be one of the most knowledgeable white guys there regarding said topics. A lot of Gods & Earths there read William Cooper’s Behold a Pale Horse, saw 911 as an inside job etc.

Then the term woke got co-opted by SJW’s and similar.

One specific example I’m getting at here, is that one of the most classic/famous Hip-Hop artists associated with the Nation of Gods & Earths, Lord Jamar, said that he doesn’t support ‘Black Lives Matter’ because George Soros etc. is behind them. He said those aren’t our people.

[Rick]

NYT quiz - if there were six political parties in the US, based on your views, which one would you likely belong to?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/202 ... =url-share

I would be on the socially liberal end of the Labor Party, which sounds about right.

Progressive Party, of course. As far to the left as you can go, but not all the way down in the left hand corner.

Me too, about a half-inch above and half-inch to the right of the lower left corner. 14% of us in this group.

[Archie2009]

I will never vote for regressive, destructive woke nonsense.

"Wokeness" is just a meme pushed by Fox News as a dog whistle for racists, both consciousness and unconsciousness.

LOL!

[Damchö_Dorje]

I got the Progressive Party.

I found the quiz rather surface-level.

I'm a cooperativist, personally.

[Johnny Dangerous]

Out of free articles,

I usually come out as somewhere on the libertarian/left end of the spectrum, sometimes a lonely place.

[Norwegian]

I couldn't take the above test, no access, so here's an alternative: a classic: https://www.politicalcompass.org/test

My result:


Related to this topic, I gave my vote to the Green party today, in the Norwegian election (election day September 13). It was either that, Red Party, or Socialist Left Party.

[Genjo Conan]

[Kim O'Hara]

That Political Compass chart/quiz has been used here for at least ten years.
Like most people here (so far, anyway) I am most at home in the lower left quadrant but not all the way down to the corner.
Middle Way, right? And "If you don't vote Left before you're forty you have no heart," as my father used to say. (He had a second half to that, but I'm not going to repeat it because I disagree with it. )


Kim

[KristenM]

I’m New Liberal Party, apparently. I’m 100% progressive on social issues. My most important issue is the environment, that should be the main focus of US policy. But, I’m not for, among other things, competely defunding the police, emptying all the prisons, letting immigration go unchecked and abolishing immigration laws and ICE. Not because I think we have a perfect system, but I think the best solutions lie in providing more government intervention in other ways that don’t merely exacerbate the problems and create more chaos.

[FiveSkandhas]

Where is the Cakravartin Party option?

[Kim O'Hara]

Where is the Cakravartin Party option?

Shambhala, I believe.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient ... ala-001529

Bhutan might be next best.


Kim

[PeterC]

I got the paywall party

[KristenM]

I got the paywall party

You don’t subscribe to the NY Times? Probably too mainstream for your tastes.

[Sādhaka]

I got the paywall party

You don’t subscribe to the NY Times? Probably too mainstream for your tastes.

Wouldn’t pay an single red penny for that nonsense; even if it is an “newspaper of record”. In fact I’d not pay for it because it probably is one.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york- ... news-media

Don’t get me wrong; I’m no Trumptard. It’s just that hypocrisy needs to be pointed out at times.

[PeterC]

I got the paywall party

You don’t subscribe to the NY Times? Probably too mainstream for your tastes.

Fox News or no news. Got to have the twenty-four hour torrent of truth from your TV