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Yeah this whole survey seems poorly designed and executed.Actual scientific polling shows Democrats are nowhere near 70% in favor of open borders. It's more like 70% against open borders.
Yeah this whole survey seems poorly designed and executed.Actual scientific polling shows Democrats are nowhere near 70% in favor of open borders. It's more like 70% against open borders.
I think you are mistaken at least at the national level. The Party determines who gets funding, who gets approved and the financial powers who are one with the party control who is the most known, gets greater air time and in the end there's "some guy" who has no chance in hell of winning (that too is controlled) and approved by the powers that be. That last part is distinctly NOT the citizen. Any horse you like, said Hobson.
The only time this has failed in my long memory is Trump and that was only because he managed to infect the Republicans who weakened themselves by their ridiculous attacks on Obama, which caused a reflexive opposite in policy and ethics and morality by the leadership who enforced it on the rank and file in DC.
No, the manipulation is almost perfect and invulnerable and partisans are completely happy when it's their side who does it for "the greater good" of course.
There are two potential solutions. First is that partisans hold themselves to a higher standard of ethical behavior than anyone else or revolution. The second is IMO more likely of the two.
Yeah this whole survey seems poorly designed and executed.
See my snips above. I'm fairly certain that those four questions are supposed to be inversed... '% disagree' or whatever. Just shitty execution by whoever created the test.yup. Same with the socialism question. I don't think Democrats are THAT stupid.
Or maybe I'm just taking these too literally? I mean, I'm fine with some socialistic-esque policies or departments.... But when I see Socialist I'm thinking an entirely socialist society.
Same with Open borders - I take that to literally mean open borders with no oversight, no guards, and no immigration process in place....
Same thing with "The police are bad people"... You're telling me that ~85% of Democrats believe that ALL cops are bad people? I would hope that at least 15% of the Democrat population has a friend, neighbor, coworker, or buddy that is a cop and knows them as a generally good person?
Honestly, I hope we are all just misunderstanding the quiz or something
Agreed, taking those into account puts me much closer to zero'd with Democrats. I'm still in the negative with republicans apparently, I think too highly of them I guess.I see what you mean now -
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The problem is that IMPORTANT text isn't on the questions when asked... Seems stupid.
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Agreed, taking those into account puts me much closer to zero'd with Democrats. I'm still in the negative with republicans apparently, I think too highly of them I guess.
It's still an idiotic test though. Doesn't take into account anything to do with geography, as an absolutely base example. The questions almost all have some kind of bias to them as well, which I'm sure is intentional.
The people who created this clearly started with the intentions of identifying how many extremists exist on each side. The way the questions are written though indicates they were written by people that don't understand their own biases.Agreed, taking those into account puts me much closer to zero'd with Democrats. I'm still in the negative with republicans apparently, I think too highly of them I guess.
It's still an idiotic test though. Doesn't take into account anything to do with geography, as an absolutely base example. The questions almost all have some kind of bias to them as well, which I'm sure is intentional.
Yep, it's pretty much a 'hotbutton issue checklist', where each 'side' rates how much the other 'side' cares about extreme issues that are supposed to represent that 'side'. Like, they don't ask the same question for republicans/democrats (open borders question, possess firearms question). It's just what's deemed to be important to that side based on MSM/facebook/whatever.The people who created this clearly started with the intentions of identifying how many extremists exist on each side. The way the questions are written though indicates they were written by people that don't understand their own biases.
"Let's think of the 7 most extreme questions we can ask each side. What do we know about extreme leftists? My FB feeds tell me they want to ban all guns, want completely open borders, police are evil, and they hate America. What about Republicans? Well the only reason I don't vote Republican is because too many of them hate all Muslims, women and black people, etc."
The people who created this clearly started with the intentions of identifying how many extremists exist on each side. The way the questions are written though indicates they were written by people that don't understand their own biases.
"Let's think of the 7 most extreme questions we can ask each side. What do we know about extreme leftists? My FB feeds tell me they want to ban all guns, want completely open borders, police are evil, and they hate America. What about Republicans? Well the only reason I don't vote Republican is because too many of them hate all Muslims, women and black people, etc."
Jesus, what a stupid thing to do. You don't figure out what extremism is by asking the other side. You find out what things very few people on one side support. If 70% of Democrats support something, that is a mainstream Democrat policy.How did you decide what makes a view “extreme”?
We designated views as “extreme” on the basis as that is what people’s political opponents would call such views. We used data from the Hidden Tribes project and external sources (shown on page 56 of the report) to support the assumption that each a particular view would be characterized as “extreme” by members of the other political party. As shown in the data, a key finding is that the number of people on either side of the political spectrum who hold such views is much smaller than one might think.
Jesus, what a stupid thing to do. You don't figure out what extremism is by asking the other side. You find out what things very few people on one side support. If 70% of Democrats support something, that is a mainstream Democrat policy.
For a bunch of people who are here day to day who appear to be scouring the web throwing up newsreels, blogs, and wikis that support what you think, you sure are a close minded judgemental bunch. Just saying. Read the about section which explains the purpose and how they came about it.
I don't really understand this survey. That site said my perception gap was 1% for Republicans, 35% for Democrats (in the direction of overestimating how conservative they are)
I got the Republican responses almost spot on*, but very slightly underestimated how conservative they are,.
But the whole thing seems rather silly to me, because it all hinges on what people mean by the words in their responses. I went for a tiny % of Democrats think America should be a socialist country, when the true figure is, surprisingly to me, apparently much larger than that...but I seriously doubt they all had the same idea in mind as to what socialism is. If 62% of Democrats think the US should be socialist, how did the Dems end up with the Clintons?
Likewise the Republicans, as I guessed, said they were fine with 'properly controlled immigration', but the whole argument is over what constitutes 'proper controls' so that doesn't mean much.
* perhaps the educational effect of this forum?
But did you take the survey while saying you are an 'independent'? It doesn't seem to make much sense - I don't believe that 62%of Dems think the US should be a socialist country, and certainly not that 90% think that most cops are bad people.
Still chuffed that I got the Republican attitudes almost dead-right, though. But that's just a judgement about what they would _say_ in response to a survey, not about what actually determines their actions and votes.
It's a consistent phenomenon that most people, even most elected officials overestimate how conservative Americans are.
https://www.vanderbilt.edu/csdi/miller-stokes/08_MillerStokes_BroockmanSkovron.pdf
Particularly interesting is that Democratic politicians overestimate how conservative their constituents are but they were generally in the ballpark. Republican politicians massively overestimate how conservative their voters are, to the tune of over 20 points.
This is based on such an inherently false premise it's ridiculous.
To start, you're willfully ignoring the popular vote. Most American voters did not want Trump in 2016, and they certainly don't now.
whereas Obama was the Devil's spawn
Ah, yes. Classic.You still don't GET IT.
It doesn't matter. What matters is that as awful a candidate as trump was, he still managed to get the votes he did, despite those who voted against him for other reasons.
This is a very clear sign the america is tired of the leftist nonsense.
If it had been a solid candidate instead of trump, it would have been a landslide win.
It's not trump who is the victor here, it's freedom instead of f-tards imposing upon hard working americans.
What has trump done really? Besides being a pig, he has reversed the nonsense. Government should get smaller and you should earn your own way in life not playing shell games to cheat.
It's not about Trump. It's about the stupidity that is the modern democratic party. The republicans also have their own idiots, don't think that I align with either extreme view.
This is the problem, a constant battle between two extremes instead of a sane middle ground.