Are You in the New American Center?

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GEEZER

Monday, October 28, 2013 9:06 PM

Take the NBC News/Esquire magazine survey and find out.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/center-interactive-quiz

You might also look at the national results...

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/new-american-center-1113

And their breakdown of the new ideological spectrum.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ideological-spectrum-1113#slide-
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Even if you don't agree, it's interesting stuff.

I'm an "MBA Middle", btw.

SIGNYM

Monday, October 28, 2013 9:50 PM

I'm officially a bleeding heart. The only thing that keeps me from being pegged on the left-hand side is my views on gun ownership. But you prolly already knew that!

STORYMARK

Monday, October 28, 2013 11:16 PM

No big shock that Im a Bleeding Heart. Interesting breakdown though.

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

GEEZER

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 7:08 PM

Was hoping more folks would try this.

I was thinking that the divide in RWED isn't so much Left vs. Right as WAAAAY Left vs. Center. The categories the survey shows seem to confirm this, but it'd be interesting to get actual results to verify.

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

GEEZER

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 8:39 PM

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Originally posted by G:
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Originally posted by Geezer:
I'm an "MBA Middle", btw.

Buddy! Me too :) though I bet we had many opposite answers.
Some of the wording is weird, and "Legalize Prostitution" eh? Where does that come from?

"Legalize Prostitution" could have been phrased better, but I suspect it was put in to check your attitude about "victimless crimes". It did sort of leave out caveats I'd have, like employee rights and health protections.

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

SIGNYM

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 9:11 PM

Rappy, jongsstraw and zit can hardly be called "center". (Well, maybe YOU could call them "center" but they seem pretty far-right tea-party-ish to me.) I noticed that none of our righties tried this, and if they did I doubt they would be honest about the results. I think what we have here is left-of-center to far left versus right of center to far right. I don't see many centrists here.

STORYMARK

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:13 PM

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Originally posted by Geezer:
Was hoping more folks would try this.

I was thinking that the divide in RWED isn't so much Left vs. Right as WAAAAY Left vs. Center. The categories the survey shows seem to confirm this, but it'd be interesting to get actual results to verify.

And you don't think guys like rappy of jong qualify as waaaaay right?

Aren't you just adorable.

You like.... read the article, didn't you? They fit the "Talk Radio Heads" to a tee. The center favors covering birth control in all cases, and raising taxes on the wealthy... you you think the rightwingers here fit that?

Again... did you actually read it, or did you just make up a wishlist and hope the article conforms to it...?

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

GEEZER

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:16 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I noticed that none of our righties tried this, and if they did I doubt they would be honest about the results.

I wish they would take the survey, and doubt they'd lie about it. Why should they?

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

STORYMARK

Tuesday, October 29, 2013 10:22 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Rappy, jongsstraw and zit can hardly be called "center". (Well, maybe YOU could call them "center"...)

Its strange, isn't it. Those on the left, have no problem admitting to being so. Those on the right seem obsessed with claiming the middle, in complete defiance of all actual evidence.

And because those on the right see themselves (falsely) as the middle, they assume everyone to the left of them is some wild-eyed librul socialist.

Geezer being a particularly amusing case, denies he's a right winger, while perpetually defending everything done on the right, and excoriating everything done on the left (and reliably sticking his fingers in his ears and saying "Nuh-uh" any time he's confronted with this pattern of behavior).

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

AGENTROUKA

Wednesday, October 30, 2013 12:06 AM

Bleeding Heart.

But then, I'm European. Even our Centrists are likely to the left of the American Center.

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