I’m not sure I’d call it “good” because it’s very simplistic. I took it and got “Solid Liberal” as you did, which I suspect will be true for 90% of QT3’ers. A lot of the questions are very black and white, with no way to indicate partial agreement, so you don’t get any kind of nuance in the results. I’d say it’s more measuring your ability to recognize reality than opinion. Items like “women have equal opportunity” or “you just need to work hard to get ahead” or “black Americans have the same opportunity as everyone else” have objectively accurate answers…if you just look around at the world.
Hmm, looking back at that, maybe it’s “good” after all as a reflection of US politics. Since we have only two realistic choices whenever we vote, there’s no room for nuance there either. And the American voting public certainly seems unable to vote based on reality or even their own interests.
I agree the binary choices are not optimum, but the topics are IMO the right topics — the essence of the political divide. And I think the answers to the questions are / will be quite indicative of where people are on the spectrum.
The thing is, lots of people answered the other way!
I should add that 14 of my 17 answers were with the general public. (Well, 12…2 of them were at exactly 50% so evenly split.) If I’m Solidly Liberal, and most of my answers were the same as the general public…says something about where we’re at in terms of representation matching public opinion.
But most people who deny reality have a ideological or cultural reason for doing so
I heard a piece on the radio yesterday where they were asking evangelicals to have a discussion about Trump, and one of the guys was like, look his conduct is terrible - he does great things but whenever he opens his mouth he’s an embarrassment. So the moderator asked what great things he had done and the guy answered “he’s done a lot for religion”. So the moderator asked specifically what he had done for religion. The answer? He actually says “god” now and then.
Hard to figure out where this goes…
I guess this is a right-wing economist who is prepared to stand his ground.
I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!
It’s very shocking, but worth reading. It’s ridiculous that this little shit is dictating policy.
Somewhere (here somewhere, even?) recently is a link to an article about Stephem Miller’s racist views in high school and at Duke.
Found it - a 2017 Vanity Fair piece linked by @Clay last week:
Soon enough, though, Miller was embracing a white-nationalist agenda. His high-school yearbook quotation came from Teddy Roosevelt: “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 percent Americanism, only for those who are American and nothing else.”
Yeah, it’s more like “Stephen Miller’s affinity for white nationalism revealed in literally everything he has ever done”
RichVR
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Then Trump called them up to be on the Supreme Court.
LockerK
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Look, when The Crave hits crazy shit happens.
Nesrie
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That’s so freaking bizarre.
rowe33
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I’m surprised that only two of the three are Republicans.
jpinard
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Can’t read the article. What happened?
