Take the quiz to find out which one of the nine political typology groups is your best match, compared with a nationally representative survey of more than 10,000 U.S. adults by Pew Research Center. You may find some of these questions are difficult to answer. That’s OK. In those cases, pick the answer that comes closest to your view, even if it isn’t exactly right.

 

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/

 

Soooooo what'd ya get?

And I guess I'll go first. I got:

 

Progressive Left

I got "ambivalent right" which I think is farther right than I actually am.

"Democratic Mainstay", though I would usually probably describe myself as "Establishment Liberal" on their scale.  There's a few questions I could have gone a different way on, but the binary choices were just a bit limiting.

"Democratic Mainstay" which I note is the largest percentage of people.  This obviously means all my opinions are the most valid so please keep that in mind when responding to any of my posts. 😉

Dem Mainstay... despite my conservative friends telling me I'm a socialist.

11 hours ago, ColDayMan said:

And I guess I'll go first. I got:

 

Progressive Left

Me too, along with SIX PERCENT of respondents. What a bummer!

Showing this as a continuous line chart is strange to me - it seems like there should be at least two dimensions. I got “Establishment Liberal” which seems accurate on a single axis. How do we capture nuance such as:

- I’m totally fine with people and companies making huge amounts of money / profit, I just think it should be aggressively taxed since companies and the rich benefit way more from government spending and infrastructure than poor people. Then we use those Government funds to pay for a strong social safety net (Medicare for All, UBI, etc), education, proper transportation, and other investments that grow that economic engine. There is no single policy that would deliver more benefit to the entrepreneurial basis of the American Dream than Medicare for All. 

- How, in the current environment, were there no questions about the importance of democratic norms and protecting voting rights?

- Globalization did exactly what most economists projected (dramatically increased economic output); however, the benefits of that weren’t properly distributed. The right answer isn’t protectionism; rather, proper taxation with community investment would assure that all would benefit.

- How were there no direct questions on the drug war? What a stupid waste of money and resources that is for something that makes everything about the drug problem worse. There was an adjacent question on jail sentences, which is hard to answer with the drug war factoring in. Yes, I think penalties for violent crime should be severe. No, I don’t think putting people in jail for using drugs is good policy. 
- No questions on gun policy? New gun safety legislation is a top five priority for improving the daily lives of Americans. The fear that people live with thanks to the gun violence epidemic is crippling society. 

- Nothing on abortion rights. 
 

Also, “Faith and Flag” is a horrible label for a group that doesn’t believe in actually protecting the institutions created by the Constitution. You can’t claim to be a patriot while trying to overthrow the government. 
 

The chart breaks Americans down as 45-15-40 left to right. 
 

12 hours ago, ColDayMan said:

And I guess I'll go first. I got:

 

Progressive Left

 

Same here!

1 hour ago, Boomerang_Brian said:

Showing this as a continuous line chart is strange to me - it seems like there should be at least two dimensions. I got “Establishment Liberal” which seems accurate on a single axis. How do we capture nuance such as:

- I’m totally fine with people and companies making huge amounts of money / profit, I just think it should be aggressively taxed since companies and the rich benefit way more from government spending and infrastructure than poor people. Then we use those Government funds to pay for a strong social safety net (Medicare for All, UBI, etc), education, proper transportation, and other investments that grow that economic engine. There is no single policy that would deliver more benefit to the entrepreneurial basis of the American Dream than Medicare for All. 

- How, in the current environment, were there no questions about the importance of democratic norms and protecting voting rights?

- Globalization did exactly what most economists projected (dramatically increased economic output); however, the benefits of that weren’t properly distributed. The right answer isn’t protectionism; rather, proper taxation with community investment would assure that all would benefit.

- How were there no direct questions on the drug war? What a stupid waste of money and resources that is for something that makes everything about the drug problem worse. There was an adjacent question on jail sentences, which is hard to answer with the drug war factoring in. Yes, I think penalties for violent crime should be severe. No, I don’t think putting people in jail for using drugs is good policy. 
- No questions on gun policy? New gun safety legislation is a top five priority for improving the daily lives of Americans. The fear that people live with thanks to the gun violence epidemic is crippling society. 

- Nothing on abortion rights. 
 

Also, “Faith and Flag” is a horrible label for a group that doesn’t believe in actually protecting the institutions created by the Constitution. You can’t claim to be a patriot while trying to overthrow the government. 
 

The chart breaks Americans down as 45-15-40 left to right. 
 

These were some of the same questions that tripped me up.  There should be at least two dimensions, and of course probably many more.  Who's more conservative- a Christian Nationalist, or a died in the wool Libertarian?  If we had multiple dimensions, we'd probably find that the Christian Nationalists are further along one axis, the Liberterian along another.  And there's an important policy vs process dimension, too.  Big difference between a technocratic incrementalist liberal and a populist revolutionary, even when their desired end state may be similar.

Progressive Left

Stressed Sideliners

4 minutes ago, TheCOV said:

Stressed Sideliners

Same