From the Pew Research Center: Where do you fit in the political typology?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/quiz/political-typology/?fbclid=IwAR3-bOaME7BpJYhRXhFu3PqD7PRC_sSBT169_x3oph1AqaK8SpAYUK38FEs

It's a quiz! I found it interesting. Feel free to try it!

[Archae]

1. I'm an "Establishment Liberal."

And apparently, only 13% of the rest of the country agrees with me.

[shanti]

14. Same n/t

[captain queeg]

2. I didn't get very far. Choices were too constrained.

I suppose if I did the whole thing it was designed to zero in on attitudes, but its just like a lot of those things, the way questions are posed its hard to really form any conclusions.

[luckone]

5. Agree Had to leave a lot of the questions blank and move on to the next so that I could finish it.

[Midnight Writer]

28. Same here. Quit before the end.

[luckone]

3. Thanks i left some questions blank I felt the either /or in some cases were ambiguous

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES

Highly politically engaged

Deeply concerned about racial justice

Support strong action to address climate change

All true I guess for me but more surprised at the overall results of the survey in general 😕

[NowISeetheLight]

4. Outsider Left - 10%

I don’t fit a lot of the descriptions though. I’m not young, I’m educated, I’m fairly happy with the Democratic Party. I supported Biden not Bernie. But a lot of things are a match.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/11/09/outsider-left/

[No Vested Interest]

6. Democratic Mainstay - 28%

Older - that's me...

[padfun]

8. Establishment Liberals

[orleans]

10. 6 percenter -- progressive left

only 6 percent of the public are progressive left? oh god! dats not very much

on edit: thanks for the link peggy

[Haggard Celine]

11. Democratic Mainstay

16% of the public, largest group in the Democratic coalition, more minority members, economically liberal, concerned about crime.

The questions were too general, in my opinion, and I might have answered differently if they had been more specific. For instance, on the question that asked if criminals are spending too much time in prison or the right amount, I said it was the right amount. If the question had specifically asked about drug offenses, though, I would have said that it was too much prison time. But I think about the amount of time people spend in prison for heinous crimes like rape, child molestation, murder, etc. really isn't enough in a lot of cases.

With more targeted questions, I could have given very different answers and been categorized differently. So this survey only has a very limited chance of deciding where people stand on the issues.

[Skittles]

15. I had the same result

and I absolutely agree with your assessment

[orleans]

24. i answered that prison time question the same way

and thought the same thing about drug offenses and murder/rape/etc

(6% progressive leftie)

[TreasonousBastard]

13. I am an establishment liberal. Some of the questions were kinda...

curt, but that's kinda the point of a test like this.

[Tomconroy]

16. Democratic Mainstay - Feel pretty good about that.

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Interesting. It's really long but I want to read the rest.
I AM really proud of the Democratic Party. Founded when Thomas Jefferson and James Madison took a sailing trip up the Hudson River to hunt butterflies.

[Dave in VA]

17. Democratic Mainstay

Agree with what other "mainstayers" have posted.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

18. Progressive Left. representing 6% of the country.

The country is apparently way closer to the right wing of me than I thought.


Highly politically engaged
Deeply concerned about racial justice
Support strong action to address climate change

They forgot dedicated anti-fascist

[Dr. Shepper]

21. Me too. eom

[bamagal62]

22. Progressive left here too!

[phylny]

23. Me too.

[bif]

25. Same here!

[Bettie]

27. Progressive Left

unsurprising to me.

ETA: Political Compass puts me way down in the lefty corner too.

[Bucky]

19. Sadly, there isn't an option for a "Guillotine the Billionaires" Liberal

[Hortensis]

20. Well, Pelosi's the leader of the "tax them out of existence" house Dems,

choose any liberal category, who represent America's liberals.

It should be painful enough for the second generations unable to maintain severely depreciated first-generation estates, have to donate/sell masterpieces to museums, and have to use regular roads and airport terminals. Oh, the humanity!

United, they're toast.

[hunter]

26. They called me "Progressive Left." I'm probably more radical than that...

... but my politics are always practical. I'm an enthusiastic supporter of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Some of the questions amused me. I live in a place where I'm as likely to hear other languages (Spanish mostly) as I am English. The kids next door to us are trilingual, effortlessly shifting among languages depending upon which relative or family friend they are speaking to. They speak English in school. That's the way its always been in the U.S.A.. The grandparents may not speak English well, their grandchildren do.

I grew up in a place that was 99% affluent white and kept that way by various underhanded and sometimes illegal means. Fortunately I managed to escape that hell as a young adult and have rarely lived in places that are majority white or Republican since.

The most important issue we face today is global warming. We need to quit fossil fuels sooner, rather than later. There wasn't anything about that on the quiz. I think we could quit fossil fuels in fifteen years or less if we made a major effort, similar to the economic effort we made in the Second World War. Even if the U.S.A. did it alone we'd be developing zero-carbon energy technologies we could export to the rest of the world.

[agalisgv]

29. Establishment Liberals

Not sure I agree. Some of the questions really didn't have any answer I felt comfortable with.

[beaglelover]

30. Democratic Mainstays