Politics pisses you off because we don’t all conform to your extremist views?
Haha I’m j/k, I think I’m chilling in that corner with you the last time I took this test.
But in all seriousness, people’s professed beliefs are more likely to be extreme versus the actual behaviors of elected politicians (which requires much more subtlety and compromise). The point? I don’t think it’s a fair or equal comparison to judge our votes on value questions versus politicians’ actual records.
No, it’s not so much that everybody doesn’t conform to my extremist views as the fact that my extremist views are completely out of the picture in American politics, while views at the opposite extreme are barely even remarkable.
For instance, while I’m a great deal more libertarian than the Libertarian Party’s nominee, my libertarianism is still less extreme than Sarah Palin’s authoritarianism.
Nor do I agree that the behavior of our politicians reflects much subtlety. All viable presidential candidates in the U.S. have to be well within the right-authoritarian quadrant, and to be a “centrist” in America is to be near the center of that quadrant, not near the center of the compass.
But anyway, I’m glad somebody’s chilling with me in Siberia.
I don’t expect, or even want, to have our views considered centrist. I do want the board expanded considerably beyond the right-authoritarian quadrant, though.
Politics pisses you off because we don’t all conform to your extremist views?
Haha I’m j/k, I think I’m chilling in that corner with you the last time I took this test.
But in all seriousness, people’s professed beliefs are more likely to be extreme versus the actual behaviors of elected politicians (which requires much more subtlety and compromise). The point? I don’t think it’s a fair or equal comparison to judge our votes on value questions versus politicians’ actual records.
No, it’s not so much that everybody doesn’t conform to my extremist views as the fact that my extremist views are completely out of the picture in American politics, while views at the opposite extreme are barely even remarkable.
For instance, while I’m a great deal more libertarian than the Libertarian Party’s nominee, my libertarianism is still less extreme than Sarah Palin’s authoritarianism.
Nor do I agree that the behavior of our politicians reflects much subtlety. All viable presidential candidates in the U.S. have to be well within the right-authoritarian quadrant, and to be a “centrist” in America is to be near the center of that quadrant, not near the center of the compass.
But anyway, I’m glad somebody’s chilling with me in Siberia.
But consider the society that where our views are centrist?
But consider the society where our views are centrist?
I don’t expect, or even want, to have our views considered centrist. I do want the board expanded considerably beyond the right-authoritarian quadrant, though.