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Mature intelligent right wing freaks

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  • bluedove
    bluedove
    http://www.okcupid.com/politics

    I'm solidly socialist. Inneresting.
  • flute
    flute
    Wow, I'm a social, as well as an economic, liberal ... a Socialist. I did not know that. Don't tell my fellow MBAers that!!
    :shock:

    So much for voting for Bloomberg ...

    :oops:
  • paulybrklynny
    paulybrklynny
    try this one, pretty good:

    http://www.politicalcompass.org/


    to the point of the discussion, listened to cheney's speech this morning.
    its just so packed with emotional terms, semantic arguements, half-truths and total distortions that its hard to believe that the vast majority of bush supporter's aren't dupes.

    its difficult to proceed with a debate with them when you approach it from a standpoint of having to educate them as to the terms of the debate in the first place.

    this certainly smacks of "liberal elitism", but i can't count the amount of times i have been involved in just such an enterprise. otherwise seemingly intelligent people who you can't even get to the crux of the matter - when you must spend the first portion of the debate dispelling the administration's myths.

    i feel as though i've spent much of the last year explaining the conflict between secularist and fundamentalist factions throughout the region. pointing out, with examples, that the vast majority of the power in the region lies in tiny minorities of US supported secular minorites, and that fundamentalist populists, such as bin Laden appeal to the large disaffected, and disenfranchised populations. that Saddam feared these aspect of his population, and thus the idea of of a binLaden-Saddam connection is absurd on the face of it.

    most upsetting to me are probably "leftist" thinkers such as George Lakoff who in "Don't Think of an Elephant", bascially argues against education and proposes that conservatives must be beaten at the propaganda game. which is just another brand of anti-democratic thinking.
  • flute
    flute
    that was a fun test as well ... i think i'm gonna change my user name here to flutegandhi ...
  • rockhound
    rockhound

    Subject: I am an intelligent right winger ..of sorts

    Hi all, I am a n00b who lives near Lincoln/Underhill. Great site! A childfree rant about sprogwagons (giant SUV strollers) brought me to the Park Slope board, ha ha. FYI I am not childfree I have a grown son.

    The tests were a hoot, not surprisingly, according to both of them I am a Right Winger Libertarian LOL Socially liberal, economically conservative.

    There's more of us around than you think!

    If I was religious then I would be down with Bushie's crew. My lack of religion disqualifies me from the present day Republican party.

    My lack of sympathy for bums, troublemakers, and lazy farkers disqualifies me from the Democratic party. That must come from living in this ghetto nieghbourhood for almost 30 years..I got "mugged" by reality a long time ago. heh. :D
  • flute
    flute

    Subject: Re: I am an intelligent right winger ..of sorts

    rockhound wrote: My lack of religion disqualifies me from the present day Republican party.
    Well, yes. That, and Heaven.

    :wink:
  • oiseau
    oiseau

    Subject: Re: I am an intelligent right winger ..of sorts

    rockhound wrote: If I was religious then I would be down with Bushie's crew.
    Why is that?

    They aren't just religious morons, they're morons.
  • teddyballgame
    teddyballgame
    bluedove wrote: http://www.okcupid.com/politics

    I'm solidly socialist. Inneresting.
    I love how on the test's main page it's like Reagan, Bush, Trump, Ghandi, Stalin, Darth Vader and such, and then, right in the middle, there's Adam Sandler... awesome. I don't care what the test says, I'm whatever Adam Sandler is.

    Haha I wrote that then took the test... turns out I'm economically kind of in the middle, and socially liberal, right near the adam sandler picture...
  • bewitched
    bewitched
    You are a

    Social Liberal (78% permissive)

    and an...

    Economic Liberal (20% permissive)

    You are best described as a: Socialist

    You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.
    loc: (105, -113)
    modscore: (12, 47)
    raw: (1644)
    Don't know what those last chunk of numbers mean.
  • flute
    flute

    Subject: Re: I am an intelligent right winger ..of sorts

    rockhound wrote: Socially liberal, economically conservative.
    Isn't that the quintessential "Rockefeller Republican" ... ???

    List of liberal or "Rockefeller" Republicans
    Abraham Lincoln--President of the United States
    John B. Anderson -- U.S. representative from Illinois, 3rd party candidate for President, 1980
    Sherwood Boehlert -- U.S. representative from New York
    Michael R. Bloomberg -- Mayor of New York
    Edward W. Brooke -- U.S. senator from Massachusetts
    John H. Chafee -- U.S. senator from Rhode Island
    Lincoln D. Chafee -- U.S. senator from Rhode Island
    William S. Cohen -- U.S. senator from Maine; secretary of defense
    Susan Collins -- U.S. senator from Maine
    Barber Conable -- U.S. representative from New York and president of the World Bank
    Silvio O. Conte -- U.S. representative from Massachusetts
    John Sherman Cooper -- U.S. senator from Kentucky
    Thomas Dewey -- governor of New York
    Rudolph W. Giuliani -- Mayor of New York (Debatably liberal promises with conservative actions)
    Mark O. Hatfield -- Governor of Oregon, U.S. senator from Oregon
    John Heinz -- U.S. senator from Pennsylvania
    Frank J. Horton -- U.S. representative from New York
    Amory Houghton -- U.S. representative from New York
    Jacob K. Javits -- U.S. senator from New York
    Jim Jeffords -- U.S. senator from Vermont
    Kenneth Keating -- U.S. senator from New York
    Robert M. La Follette, Jr. -- U.S. senator from Wisconsin
    Robert M. La Follette, Sr. -- governor of Wisconsin and U.S. senator from Wisconsin
    Fiorello H. LaGuardia -- New York City mayor
    John V. Lindsay -- U.S. representative from New York, New York City mayor
    Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. -- U.S. senator from Massachusetts
    Charles Mathias -- U.S. senator from Maryland
    Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback -- First African-American Governor of Louisiana
    Thomas L. McCall -- Governor of Oregon
    Constance A. Morella -- U.S. representative from Maryland
    Wayne L. Morse -- U.S. senator from Oregon
    Robert W. Packwood - U.S. senator from Oregon
    George Pataki -- Governor of New York
    Jack Quinn -- U.S. representative from New York
    Richard J. Riordan -- Mayor of Los Angeles
    George W. Romney -- Governor of Michigan
    Nelson A. Rockefeller -- Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States.
    Theodore Roosevelt -- President of the United States
    Chris Shays -- U.S. representative from Connecticut
    Alan K. Simpson -- U.S senator from Wyoming
    William W. Scranton -- Governor of Pennsylvania
    Margaret Chase Smith -- U.S. senator from Maine
    Olympia Snowe -- U.S. senator from Maine
    Harold Stassen -- Governor of Minnesota and perennial presidential candidate
    James R. "Big Jim" Thompson -- Governor of Illinois
    Earl Warren -- Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States
    Lowell P. Weicker Jr. -- U.S. senator from Connecticut, Governor of Connecticut
    William F. Weld -- Governor of Massachusetts
    Wendell Willkie -- Republican candidate for president
    Malcolm Wilson -- Governor of New York

    (list from Wikipedia)

    Bob Packwood, yeah!!

    :wink:
  • teddyballgame
    teddyballgame
    I don't know if I should be happy or sad that, on the brink of turning 25, I still laugh as hard as I did in seventh grade when I hear the name "Bob Packwood."

    Almost, almost as funny as Dick Armey. But not quite.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    The test is kind of silly. It says I'm more leftist and libertarian than Gandhi!
  • flute
    flute
    teddyballgame wrote: I don't know if I should be happy or sad that, on the brink of turning 25.
    not to worry ... i'm on the brink of turning 40 ... (uh, well, hmmm, yeah, ok ... 40-something) and i'm still laughing ...

    :shock:
  • bluedove
    bluedove
    Carnivore wrote: The test is kind of silly. It says I'm more leftist and libertarian than Gandhi!
    I don't think the pictures actually mean anything, they're just to give you a general idea of what you're looking at.
  • rockhound
    rockhound

    Subject: Re: I am an intelligent right winger ..of sorts

    Oiseau wrote: [quote=rockhound]If I was religious then I would be down with Bushie's crew.
    Why is that?

    They aren't just religious morons, they're morons.

    Yes and they've really gotten to be a goddamn embarrassment.

    People look on you pityingly when you travel to other continents (as I did in October) and are forced to admit to total strangers that you come from George Bush's America.

    He is regarded by many with a mixture of horror and amusement. People are like, "What will the cowboy do next?"

    It's a very strange situation for me, being embarrassed about where I come from. Then again, I was reassured by my foreign friends that New York isn't exactly America..I think they were trying to spare my feelings.

    :shock:
  • escap
    escap
    Yeah Rockhound, I'm in your corner. The only thing I object to is the use of the term "Economic Conservative". If I'm more permissive, doesn't that mean more liberal, by definition? Economic liberalism is the opposite of socialism, not the same.

    You are a

    Social Liberal
    (73% permissive)

    and an...

    Economic Conservative
    (78% permissive)

    You are best described as a:

    Libertarian


    You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.
  • candicissima
    candicissima
    You are a

    Social Liberal
    (65% permissive)

    and an...

    Economic Liberal
    (18% permissive)

    You are best described as a:

    Socialist


    You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (56, -119)
    modscore: (11, 39)
    raw: (1536)
    And I'm sitting right between Hilary Clinton and Gorbechev :lol:
  • oiseau
    oiseau
    You are a Social Liberal (65% permissive)
    and an... Economic Liberal (13% permissive)

    You are best described as a: Socialist

    HOWEVER, I would vote Libertarian because they would legalize coffeshops like they have in Amsterdam. Then NYC could be considered without a doubt the greatest city in the world.
  • linusvanpelt
    linusvanpelt
    Candicissima wrote: I'm sitting right between Hilary Clinton and Gorbechev :lol:
    I'm smack between Thomas Jefferson and the Unabomber. This is the best test ever!
  • teddyballgame
    teddyballgame
    linusvanpelt wrote: I'm smack between Thomas Jefferson and the Unabomber.
    Man, if I had a dollar for every time I said that...
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Just took the other test...
    You are a Social Liberal (80% permissive) and an...Economic Liberal (15% permissive). You are best described as a: Socialist. You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (112, -131)
    modscore: (9, 48)
  • rah
    rah
    smack dab on Hilliary. wellesley would be proud :D
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