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Post by patrick on May 28, 2015 11:21:02 GMT -5
This seems to me to be a pretty comprehensive test, linkApparently I'm a Green Party guy. Yep, me too. Mostly green, followed by Democrat but still 18% Republican. Very little Libertarian.
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Post by Doug on May 28, 2015 12:51:40 GMT -5
If they provide scotch, I'm all in. Hey it's Canada you will have to settle for Rye. But they will change your diapers.
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Post by david on May 28, 2015 17:42:33 GMT -5
Green Party: 83% Democrats: 77% Libertarians: 59% Republican: 51% Constitution Party 46% Socialist: 10% It seems Bernie is my guy, but I need to school him on some issues.
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Post by Doug on May 28, 2015 19:16:57 GMT -5
Green Party: 83% Democrats: 77% Libertarians: 59% Republican: 51% Constitution Party 46% Socialist: 10% It seems Bernie is my guy, but I need to school him on some issues. Ya can't vote for Bernie unless you live within 20 miles of salt water and it snows where you live.
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Post by jdd2 on May 29, 2015 5:41:20 GMT -5
I'm so far off the left coast that I'm almost equally as far off the east coast.
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Post by PaulKay on May 29, 2015 8:29:05 GMT -5
No big suprises... I'm a left leaning centrist.
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Post by brucemacneill on May 29, 2015 8:40:00 GMT -5
Green 20 Democrats 36 Socialist 17 Libertarian 82 Constitution 96 Republican 97
Went to a Win7 machine and got a result anyway, moderately conservative. I expected to be to the right of Gengis Kahn. On this machine though there were only yes/no answers, not the more nuances ones I saw on the XP machine that wouldn't finish the test. Strange.
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Post by Lonnie on May 29, 2015 10:52:11 GMT -5
It seems that most of us think for ourselves, rather than following blindly along on one particular party line. How come the government isn't as smart as we are?
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Post by brucemacneill on May 29, 2015 10:57:24 GMT -5
It seems that most of us think for ourselves, rather than following blindly along on one particular party line. How come the government isn't as smart as we are? 'cause if they were they'd be out doing something constructive instead of government.
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Post by coachdoc on May 30, 2015 8:44:27 GMT -5
Green Party: 83% Democrats: 77% Libertarians: 59% Republican: 51% Constitution Party 46% Socialist: 10% It seems Bernie is my guy, but I need to school him on some issues. Ya can't vote for Bernie unless you live within 20 miles of salt water and it snows where you live. By those criteria, I can and will.
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Post by Doug on May 30, 2015 10:29:08 GMT -5
Ya can't vote for Bernie unless you live within 20 miles of salt water and it snows where you live. By those criteria, I can and will. I think I disagree with Bernie on almost everything but I vote for him before Bush/Clinton.
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Post by fauxmaha on May 30, 2015 16:07:44 GMT -5
By those criteria, I can and will. I think I disagree with Bernie on almost everything but I vote for him before Bush/Clinton. At least Sanders is an honest socialist. He may be batshit crazy (eg thinking that the number of deodorant choices impacts child hunger), but at least he is honest about it.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 17:25:34 GMT -5
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Post by Doug on May 30, 2015 17:54:08 GMT -5
But we don't have a free market system we have hidden fascist system where we have private ownership controlled by the government. Or you could call it crony capitalism where if you are a BIG business you pay off politicians to make laws that help your business and hurt your competition.
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Post by brucemacneill on May 30, 2015 18:02:54 GMT -5
Bernie only recently upgraded himself to Socialist, now Democrat. He used to be a proud Communist until they changed their name to Progressive and then Socialist, same people, same ideals just the names were changed to make them more politically palatable to the uninformed voters of the Democrat Party. If Bernie gets elected, sit on your wallet 7x24 because if you have anything he wants it.
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Post by Russell Letson on May 30, 2015 19:08:08 GMT -5
Bruce, wherever do you get your information? At what point was Sanders a Communist? When I Google "bernie sanders" and "communist," I get hits for David Horowitz' neo-McCarthyite Discover the Network and Beliefnet (which reposts DtN assertions), but even wingnut Allen West doesn't call Sanders a commie.
The kindest description I can think of for Horowitz is "crank," and DtN has all the marks of old-fashioned paranoia-mongering smear tactics. Note, for example, the detail that Sanders "worked briefly for the communist-led United Packinghouse Workers Union." Google up that union and look for evidence that it was "communist-led."
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Post by millring on May 30, 2015 19:57:49 GMT -5
Yeah, he's not a communist. That should commend him.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 20:24:37 GMT -5
Not being a painfully obvious corporate lackey or bending over backwards to appease Christian dominionists is a refreshing look though.
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Post by Russell Letson on May 31, 2015 0:25:27 GMT -5
Yeah, he's not a communist. That should commend him. At least it doesn't misrepresent him.
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Post by brucemacneill on May 31, 2015 5:06:52 GMT -5
Bernard “Bernie” Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York on September 8, 1941, to Polish immigrants of Jewish descent. After attending Brooklyn College for one year, he transferred to the University of Chicago (UC) and earned a bachelor's degree in political science in 1964. At UC, Sanders joined the Young Peoples Socialist League (youth wing of the Socialist Party USA) as well as the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Peace Union. He also was an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, worked briefly for the communist-led United Packinghouse Workers Union, and participated in an American Friends Service Committee project at a California psychiatric hospital.
After college, Sanders lived briefly on an Israeli kibbutz, then moved to Vermont where he worked variously as a carpenter, filmmaker, writer, and researcher. In 1971 he joined the anti-war Liberty Union Party (LUP), on whose ticket he made unsuccessful runs for the U.S. Senate in 1972 and 1974, and for Governor of Vermont in 1976. Sanders's LUP platform called for the nationalization of all U.S. banks, public ownership of all utiliies, and the establishment of a worker-controlled federal government.
Sanders resigned from LUP in 1979 and became a political Independent. Two years later he was elected mayor of Burlington, Vermont, a post he held until 1989. Sanders created some controversy when he hung a Soviet flag in his mayoral office, in honor of Burlington's Soviet sister city Yaroslav.
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