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Is this website mostly right wingers

is this site mostly right wingers

  • yes

    Votes: 18 31.0%
  • no

    Votes: 29 50.0%
  • americans dont know what right wing is

    Votes: 3 5.2%
  • america is so far to the right that hitler would be considered liberal

    Votes: 8 13.8%

  • Total voters
    58
i see alot of people masquerading as centre, independent, moderate, and libertarian, but it seems like code for authoritarian right wingers to me.
You forgot the option that says the OP doesn't know what rightwing is.
 
If Diane Feinstein is a by-word for leftism, Sweet Catz, then yeah, they're all neo-con.

In global terms, this raging socialist, commie, pinko Prez of yours is centre-right. As indeed is anyone who doesn't question the hegemony of market economics.

Supporting capitalism does not equal centre right. That's a marker that is clearly skewed to the far left. There are other issues.
 
based on he saw womens role as a traditional one in the home, without the right to vote, strongly enforced social order, extreme homophobia, discouraged pornography, prostitution, cosmetics, alcohol, smoking

Everyone did, in 1939. :roll:
 
Moderate can go either way as well.

Not according to some of the right-wingers on this forum. They've told me personally that moderates and centrists = liberal. Nice, huh?
 
Not according to some of the right-wingers on this forum. They've told me personally that moderates and centrists = liberal. Nice, huh?

It seems any group of extremists must form their identity through the mechanism of excoriating those who are a little bit different as actually being the opposite extreme. There is no middle ground with these people. "You are either with me or you are against me"
 
It seems any group of extremists must form their identity through the mechanism of excoriating those who are a little bit different as actually being the opposite extreme. There is no middle ground with these people. "You are either with me or you are against me"

only a sith deals in absolutes
 
not everyone, even you yanks had given women the vote by the 20's

There is a difference between what was said (women staying at home, taking care of kids, etc.) and votes for women.

Very few women around the world were working outside of the home in 1939.
 
I support liberal values.






which, of course, makes me a right winger in the eyes of much of the whacked out, uber-dogmatic, illiberal left.
 
The single axis "left/right" model of political thought is retarded and fails to allow for the full nuanced perspectives that most people have. Even the two-axis models fail to encompass the full nuances.


The reality is that political views are widely varied within a single person, let alone large groups of people.
 
Real world examples of whacked out uber dogmatic lefties? Plz?

A good number of the Europeans here, for starters.
 
The single axis "left/right" model of political thought is retarded and fails to allow for the full nuanced perspectives that most people have. Even the two-axis models fail to encompass the full nuances.


The reality is that political views are widely varied within a single person, let alone large groups of people.


Yet some people 'follow' politics and 'subscribe' to one 'side' of political 'issues'.
'Nuanced perspective'? I would say 'some' people have 'nuanced perspectives' Id say alot of people march to the beat of the same 'drum' so to speak.

'nnNyes'

:)
 
Not according to some of the right-wingers on this forum. They've told me personally that moderates and centrists = liberal. Nice, huh?
At 30,000', oil tankers look like grains of rice.
 
It seems any group of extremists must form their identity through the mechanism of excoriating those who are a little bit different as actually being the opposite extreme. There is no middle ground with these people. "You are either with me or you are against me"
In group/out group psychology. It's human nature.
 
Yet some people 'follow' politics and 'subscribe' to one 'side' of political 'issues'.
'Nuanced perspective'? I would say 'some' people have 'nuanced perspectives' Id say alot of people march to the beat of the same 'drum' so to speak.

'nnNyes'

:)
you can easily see those who march to the same drum, both sides, right here on DP. i do think this site is fairly conservative.
 
Yet some people 'follow' politics and 'subscribe' to one 'side' of political 'issues'.
'Nuanced perspective'? I would say 'some' people have 'nuanced perspectives' Id say alot of people march to the beat of the same 'drum' so to speak.

'nnNyes'

:)

I'd say most people have a nuanced perspective. But I'd add that a significant portion of the population is averse to self-reflection and thus they don't realize the true degree of the nuances within their own views until they are confronted with them, and even then, they try to disregard the conflict because, in many cases, they don't like what they might find out about themselves.
 
you can easily see those who march to the same drum, both sides, right here on DP. i do think this site is fairly conservative.

I march to the beat of a drummer who suffers from seizures and doesn't really understand the concept of rhythm.
 
you can easily see those who march to the same drum, both sides, right here on DP. i do think this site is fairly conservative.
I think so too. It makes a lot of assumptions about people even before they start posting. For example, 'Lean'. It provides only one definition of what one might be if a 'leftist' i.e. 'liberal' and the degree of liberal you might be. It's as if concepts such as Green socialist, social democrat, socialist and communist don't exist.

But the very concept of this 'lean' assumes the linear left-right divide that many posters are finding limiting and inadequate.

I really enjoy debating with people of all different affiliations and perspectives, especially those who really engage with an issue and don't write others off because they can be labelled and dismissed using a simplistic title.

The slogan the site uses: "Political bias optional, civility a must" is rarely accurate. "Political bias inevitable, civility only to those you agree with" would be much more accurate.
 
I think so too. It makes a lot of assumptions about people even before they start posting. For example, 'Lean'. It provides only one definition of what one might be if a 'leftist' i.e. 'liberal' and the degree of liberal you might be. It's as if concepts such as Green socialist, social democrat, socialist and communist don't exist.

But the very concept of this 'lean' assumes the linear left-right divide that many posters are finding limiting and inadequate.

I really enjoy debating with people of all different affiliations and perspectives, especially those who really engage with an issue and don't write others off because they can be labelled and dismissed using a simplistic title.

The slogan the site uses: "Political bias optional, civility a must" is rarely accurate. "Political bias inevitable, civility only to those you agree with" would be much more accurate.
i see it that was as well. i'm pretty liberal, not ashamed of it, but every post i make doesn't bash republicans, as do some of our more partisan member's posts.
 
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