I suspect that at bottom for you, behind Trumpism's dumb particulars is a legitimate and understandable working-class resentment against cultural elitism and being pushed around by history. But your main reaction to Trumpism has been it's up to liberals to show forebearance and be the adults in the room. The right also says a lot of dumb things. But attacking their stupidity really gets you going. The left certainly says a lot of dumb things. What seems to excite you politically-again, let's be honest-is attacking the left. It's often accompanied by words indicating that, as far as you're concerned, melding capitalism and socialism is pretty dull, but there's nothing better on offer. For example, let's face it, the tone in which you convey your faith in the melding of capitalism and socialism is almost always pretty resigned. That said, a questionnaire like this and the resulting conclusions are a pretty superficial way to describe a person's beliefs. The beliefs you've declared on bensozia over and over-basically, melding of capitalism and socialism-would seem to put you there. Surprisingly, there are no questions related specifically to Covid issues like mask mandates there's just one vague one about science (and plenty of anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers and even creationists think they're listening to "the science," or are at least quite ready to employ that rhetoric).Īll that said, I'm certainly not at all surprised that the results would put you at American Labor. There's a question on defunding police, but not one, for example, that asks you to agree or disagree that the 2020 national election was rigged. In addition, the questions as a whole seem focused on progressivism, perhaps even on isolating progressives from everyone else. I even measured it on my computer screen: I'm about 1.5 inches from American Labor and 2.5 from Progressive. The results place me quite a bit closest to American Labor but declared me to be a Progressive. I'm also interested to hear how anyone else with NY Times access scores. Does anybody who has been following me for a long time disagree? I'm curious. But I feel like lately I have been pretty consistent. I recognize that events then changed my views substantially. That was not true of the previous decade, when torture and black site prisons and what all drove me to the left in foreign policy and Wall Street madness drove me left economically. Likewise on the police my readers know I have been complaining about misconduct by cops and prosecutors for decades, which made me a liberal in 2005, but I am completely not on board with defunding the police. My position on immigration (a good thing in moderation) was pretty liberal then, before the left shifted to open borders and abolishing ICE. Thinking about this I feel that over the past decade I have stayed the same while the landscape has shifted underneath me. I think ten years ago I would have scored more socially liberal and more economically conservative, but it happens that on some of the cultural issues taking center stage right now (immigration, police funding) I am fairly conservative, while on the central economic issues (minimum wage, spending on public transit, higher taxes on the rich) I remain liberal. I scored closest to the American Labor party. The NY Times has a quiz up which places you in one of six imaginary political parties.
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