Your comment, Michael, made me think about the fact that the results of the survey will just show how each of us categorizes our political views, rather than how some objective third party would categorize them. I rated myself as “moderately liberal,” rather than “very liberal,” based on the fact that I think our current President is doi…
Your comment, Michael, made me think about the fact that the results of the survey will just show how each of us categorizes our political views, rather than how some objective third party would categorize them. I rated myself as “moderately liberal,” rather than “very liberal,” based on the fact that I think our current President is doing a really good job, and I don’t blame him for what is happening in Gaza or refer to him as “Genocide Joe” as some folks do, who, I guess, would be categorized as more “liberal” or “left” than I. I do suppose that the person who requested the survey would tend to categorize me as “very liberal” or “insanely liberal” or “crazily woke” since I don’t hate immigrants, transgender people, women who wish to control their own bodies, or people of color, and I don’t want to go back to the American culture of the 1950s.
I put very liberal, but I also support President Biden, think he is a decent, humane man, and think that it is unrealistic and frankly stupid not to vote for such a person (even if his opponent were a sane Republican) because I differ from him on a few important points. As it is, his opponent is an unhinged monster who is a danger to US and world-wide democracy, who is a danger to world peace, and who will make the looming climate catastrophe even harder to avoid.
I would classify Joe Biden as "moderately liberal" - the hard right has so propagandized him (and the entire "Democrat" party) as being wild-eyed communists and socialists who are out to "destroy 'Murica". The Left-Right political "spectrum" has been so far shifted rightward over the past 20 -30 years, that many of today's Dems would have been labeled as "centrist-right" 30 to 40 years ago.
gotta take issue with your assessment/classification of Joe Biden as 'moderately liberal'. Joe B is the most liberal Prez since FDR - maybe more liberal then FDR. i would definitely classify Joe B as 'very liberal'.
Your comment, Michael, made me think about the fact that the results of the survey will just show how each of us categorizes our political views, rather than how some objective third party would categorize them. I rated myself as “moderately liberal,” rather than “very liberal,” based on the fact that I think our current President is doing a really good job, and I don’t blame him for what is happening in Gaza or refer to him as “Genocide Joe” as some folks do, who, I guess, would be categorized as more “liberal” or “left” than I. I do suppose that the person who requested the survey would tend to categorize me as “very liberal” or “insanely liberal” or “crazily woke” since I don’t hate immigrants, transgender people, women who wish to control their own bodies, or people of color, and I don’t want to go back to the American culture of the 1950s.
I put very liberal, but I also support President Biden, think he is a decent, humane man, and think that it is unrealistic and frankly stupid not to vote for such a person (even if his opponent were a sane Republican) because I differ from him on a few important points. As it is, his opponent is an unhinged monster who is a danger to US and world-wide democracy, who is a danger to world peace, and who will make the looming climate catastrophe even harder to avoid.
I would classify Joe Biden as "moderately liberal" - the hard right has so propagandized him (and the entire "Democrat" party) as being wild-eyed communists and socialists who are out to "destroy 'Murica". The Left-Right political "spectrum" has been so far shifted rightward over the past 20 -30 years, that many of today's Dems would have been labeled as "centrist-right" 30 to 40 years ago.
gotta take issue with your assessment/classification of Joe Biden as 'moderately liberal'. Joe B is the most liberal Prez since FDR - maybe more liberal then FDR. i would definitely classify Joe B as 'very liberal'.
one source to support my contention: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/why-is-joe-tP8eB4exQjui.U39rnQ5cg