You think your biases might be showing here a wee bit?
most definitely =) I guess my disclaimer was somewhat obvious, but mainly there just to make sure nobody thinks I'm claiming any sort of objectivity here.
The best imaginable result I could think of that might come out of this post would be for some kind of Ann Cultour / Jerry Fallwell type to come out of the woodwork and give me an explanation of how, from their perspective, it's actually the liberals who are most of the deck short of a full deck... and how it's really the religious right who has the deepest understanding of the world. What I wouldn't give to see that! And where are the Moderates, of both Left and Right? And the Apathists, who don't give a shit, for the most part?
Apathists - If they haven't expressed much in the way of an opinion about politics then it just means I can't use this to assess anything about how they think.
"Moderate" depends on the context and is relative to whatever population sample you're looking at. On the global scale, I think moderate is roughly synonymous with what I'm calling liberal. If you're looking just at educated population, it would be a synthesis of 4 of my 5 categories leaving out the Religious Right. If the population is restricted to American citizens, then moderate means some synthesis of the 4 non-Leftist categories (the Leftist category being omitted altogether from mainstream political dialogue).
Personally, I tend to sympathize with elements of all 4 (aside from the RR), and depending on my mood can feel like I'm more aligned with one of the 4 than the others. But if I average it out it mostly averages out to liberal.
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Date: 2010-05-17 06:55 pm (UTC)You think your biases might be showing here a wee bit?
most definitely =) I guess my disclaimer was somewhat obvious, but mainly there just to make sure nobody thinks I'm claiming any sort of objectivity here.
The best imaginable result I could think of that might come out of this post would be for some kind of Ann Cultour / Jerry Fallwell type to come out of the woodwork and give me an explanation of how, from their perspective, it's actually the liberals who are most of the deck short of a full deck... and how it's really the religious right who has the deepest understanding of the world. What I wouldn't give to see that!
And where are the Moderates, of both Left and Right? And the Apathists, who don't give a shit, for the most part?
Apathists - If they haven't expressed much in the way of an opinion about politics then it just means I can't use this to assess anything about how they think.
"Moderate" depends on the context and is relative to whatever population sample you're looking at. On the global scale, I think moderate is roughly synonymous with what I'm calling liberal. If you're looking just at educated population, it would be a synthesis of 4 of my 5 categories leaving out the Religious Right. If the population is restricted to American citizens, then moderate means some synthesis of the 4 non-Leftist categories (the Leftist category being omitted altogether from mainstream political dialogue).
Personally, I tend to sympathize with elements of all 4 (aside from the RR), and depending on my mood can feel like I'm more aligned with one of the 4 than the others. But if I average it out it mostly averages out to liberal.