How Much Of A Democrat Are You?

dales · Post by **dales** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 1:38 am

http://us-political-parties.insidegov.c ... b.dt.11063

My Results

You lean left most of the time. You're happy to have government involved in society, addressing social and economic issues as needed. Like former Presidents Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy, you try to stay fairly moderate, but side with your party most of the time.

MajGenl.Meade · Post by **MajGenl.Meade** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 2:14 am

Result: There's No Way You're a Democrat.

You're a staunch conservative, red till the day you die. Big government gets your blood boiling. Strong Republicans like former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush would agree with you on most issues.

Whodda thunk?

Joe Guy · Post by **Joe Guy** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 2:24 am

I guess I didn't pass the test...

Result: You're Probably Not a Democrat

Sometimes you understand where people on the left are coming from, but you don't usually agree with them. In your eyes, the government has some role to play in society, but people should freely live their own lives. Like Sen. John McCain and former President Dwight Eisenhower, you're firm in your beliefs, but understand the world isn't black and white.

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 2:24 am

Well gee, that was a surprise:

Result: You're a Hardcore, Tried and True Democrat.

You bleed blue — a 100 percent, certified Democrat. You think the government should play an active role in its citizens' lives, and you take a liberal stance on most, if not all, social issues. Like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, you're driven to help those who too often cannot help themselves.

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 3:12 am

I got the same result as Joe...I should have gotten the same result as Meade...

Clearly I'm getting way to squishy in m old age...

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 4:04 am

Result: You're a Laissez-faire Democrat.
You lean left most of the time. You're happy to have government involved in society, addressing social and economic issues as needed. Like former Presidents Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy, you try to stay fairly moderate, but side with your party most of the time.

I'll take it. I'll never be accused of leaning toward the dark side.

Gob · Post by **Gob** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 4:30 am

Result: You're a Hardcore, Tried and True Democrat.

You bleed blue — a 100 percent, certified Democrat. You think the government should play an active role in its citizens' lives, and you take a liberal stance on most, if not all, social issues. Like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, you're driven to help those who too often cannot help themselves.

Hmmmm....

Bicycle Bill · Post by **Bicycle Bill** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:09 am

Joe Guy wrote:I guess I didn't pass the test...

Result: You're Probably Not a Democrat

Sometimes you understand where people on the left are coming from, but you don't usually agree with them. In your eyes, the government has some role to play in society, but people should freely live their own lives. Like Sen. John McCain and former President Dwight Eisenhower, you're firm in your beliefs, but understand the world isn't black and white.

Likewise. And I'm OK with that; I know that I have held Republican leanings for far longer than the past couple of election cycles where I would vote for an alcohol-befuddled crackhead or the village idiot before I'd cast a ballot for a Republican candidate for anything.

And bad habits die hard

. In fact, if the Republicans had run anyone else but Trump, I might even have given him or her a look-see.

But then I look at what Governor Snottie Wanker and his tame Republican-controlled legislature has done in to my home state of Wisconsin, as well as some of the other egregious acts proudly committed by Republicans — such as going six months (and counting!) since President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill Antonin Scalia's vacant Supreme Court seat without taking any action whatsoever, wasting countless hours of time in Congress trying (and failing — something like 65 times to date) to overturn the Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare'), and several incidents of governmental shut-downs because they wanted to hold their breath and turn blue in order to get their way — and I realize that as good as some Republicans might have been in the past, those people who call themselves Republicans today should probably be tarred, feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail.

-"BB"-

Econoline · Post by **Econoline** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 10:28 am

The poll won't load for me; not sure why. I get to the page--with the title of the quiz--but no quiz or questions show up.(From past experience, I'm guessing I'd probably have wound up in the same "Laissez-faire Democrat" box as Ray and Dale.)

Crackpot · Post by **Crackpot** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 10:57 am

I apparently am with Gob and Scooter.

Big RR · Post by **Big RR** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 1:11 pm

As am I; but I don't really think I'm a democrat--more a liberal (which is quite different IMHO) with strong leanings to protecting civil liberties (very big difference IMHO).

Crackpot · Post by **Crackpot** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 2:05 pm

Had to flip a coin and choose between equally bad and un-nuanced options.

Guinevere · Post by **Guinevere** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 4:58 pm

Scooter wrote:Well gee, that was a surprise:

Result: You're a Hardcore, Tried and True Democrat.

You bleed blue — a 100 percent, certified Democrat. You think the government should play an active role in its citizens' lives, and you take a liberal stance on most, if not all, social issues. Like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, you're driven to help those who too often cannot help themselves.

X2

But as BigRR says, I'm mostly a liberal feminista.

Sue U · Post by **Sue U** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 5:32 pm

Result: You're a Hardcore, Tried and True Democrat.

You bleed blue — a 100 percent, certified Democrat. You think the government should play an active role in its citizens' lives, and you take a liberal stance on most, if not all, social issues. Like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, you're driven to help those who too often cannot help themselves.

Except for the actual fact that I'm not really any kind of Democrat at all (just a "small-d" democrat). I really hate that American popular political culture cannot conceive of any ideological categories other than "Democrat" and "Republican."

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:17 pm

X3, but I've never belonged to any political party.

yrs,
rubato

Jarlaxle · Post by **Jarlaxle** » Sat Sep 17, 2016 12:18 pm

Result: There's No Way You're a Democrat.

I could have told them that.

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 1:09 am

You bleed blue — a 100 percent, certified Democrat. You think the government should play an active role in its citizens' lives, and you take a liberal stance on most, if not all, social issues. Like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, you're driven to help those who too often cannot help themselves.

kmccune · Post by **kmccune** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:15 am

Wow ,my vote for FDR must have molded it -Azul ! (how come Libertarians werent included ?-I think this was a republican trap ,because I voted conservative on a lot of things )

Lord Jim · Post by **Lord Jim** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 12:02 pm

I think this was a republican trap

I disagree...

No Republican would use a characterization like this:

Like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, you're driven to help those who too often cannot help themselves.

Had to be a Liberal Dem that came up with that one...

datsunaholic · Post by **datsunaholic** » Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:04 pm

You lean left most of the time. You're happy to have government involved in society, addressing social and economic issues as needed. Like former Presidents Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy, you try to stay fairly moderate, but side with your party most of the time.

Yeah, not really. A lot of the questions had no answer that I agreed with, and some I fell in between 2 equal but slightly off answers. Like political candidates it was trying to pick the least wrong answer rather than the most accurate one in some cases. The question on crime/prisons is one of them- I think that rehabilitation CAN work, but there are a lot of crimes that are not punished harshly enough, and way too many criminals are released too early with no rehabilitation at all.

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