Journal damn_registrars's Journal: Political Compass of the 2012 US Election 28
Someone else provided this link last week:
US Presidential Election 2012
So why then will I vote for Obama, knowing that indeed he is barely any less conservative than Romney? Well, in my case a President Romney could be immediately catastrophic for my profession. An extension of President Obama, however, would be bad but not catastrophic. Hence, this vote is simply for self-preservation at this point. Hopefully some other time we will see a third (really, second) party candidate who is viable to win the seat and change something.
It is also interesting that on the libertarian - authoritarian axis there is not a single candidate from the left who scores above zero. Meanwhile most of the candidates on the right are authoritarian or score zero.
US Presidential Election 2012
So why then will I vote for Obama, knowing that indeed he is barely any less conservative than Romney? Well, in my case a President Romney could be immediately catastrophic for my profession. An extension of President Obama, however, would be bad but not catastrophic. Hence, this vote is simply for self-preservation at this point. Hopefully some other time we will see a third (really, second) party candidate who is viable to win the seat and change something.
It is also interesting that on the libertarian - authoritarian axis there is not a single candidate from the left who scores above zero. Meanwhile most of the candidates on the right are authoritarian or score zero.
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Any reasonable person who evaluates Obama's actual track record to this point will recognize him as being the most conservative president we've had in many decades. Not a single one of the bills he has signed or executive actions he has taken is one that his predecessor - who was previously hailed as a conservative high-water mark - would not have t
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'Serve humanity' vs. 'interests of trans-national corporations'
The vague emotional goal of 'humanity' against that Wretched. Evil. Capitalist. Boogeyman.
My JE picked up the granola-head angle.
And that's all the more I care to delve into this diaper-bin.
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Um, the quiz?
You seem to be missing the point. The candidates themselves did not take the quiz. Rather, they were judged on actual statements and actions. Which is exactly why Obama and Romney practically sit on top of each other, as they both have actual actions that they can be judged on.
Start at the beginning:
If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.
If this question is designed to help place people who are taking a test on a continuum, it's not necessarily a bad one. After all, the quiz does have more than just one question...
The vague emotional goal of 'humanity' against that Wretched. Evil. Capitalist. Boogeyman.
It doesn't necessarily imply the corporation to
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Agreed. The question of whether their philosophy differs substantially is separate from the question of whether this particular quiz sucks.
My journal entry was concerned nearly entirely with the former and not at all with the latter. Care to discuss? I apologize if the purpose of this JE was obtuse.
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piece of work.
And Romney, AFAICT is a
Hard to tell whether Romney is a coward. I'm inclined to think him courageous, given that he debated four different people in October (Obama and three moderators).
I wasn't a huge Romney fan during the primaries, a
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narcissist egomaniac
Can you provide any reason to suggest that he is more of either of those than any other many who has run for president, ever?
compulsive liar
I would like to know how you arrive at that conclusion.
coward
While I would agree that indeed his conservative actions show that he lacks spine, I would also like to point out that it is rather difficult to be a coward and more of an egomaniac or narcissist than avera
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Yet there it is. I think very little of this man. Other than electing a black man, and thus scoring cool points in some broader historical game, this administration has been an expensive adventure in failure.
This failed administration ignobly ends with hanging brave warriors out to dry in Benghazi, then coming up with so
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'Brave warriors'? Or gun runners? Sales are brisk this year. It's business. Just like your Iran/Contra.. with a bit more drama for the upcoming HBO Special.
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this administration has been an expensive adventure in failure.
Obama's not the best President I've seen, but he's head and shoulders above most I've seen. Look at where the country was when his predecessor took office: we were at peace, the budget was balanced, we were in a boom period, and unemployment was low.
Eight years later we were in two wars, the stock market and housing markets had crashed, we had the biggest defecit in history, seven years after 911 the mastermind was still at large. Bush almost de
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You're welcome to raise the 5w's as questions about the context, but it sure sounds as though when the fertilizer hit the air circulator, a Basically Hair-brained Operator failed in a very big way.
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This must be an 'Overton Window' thing, huh? Where anybody can be made into a hero. Was Reagan a 'hair-brained operator' (I saw what you did there) when he let 241 Americans die in Beirut? Or does 'context' dictate otherwise? How about Johnson/Nixon when they let over 50,000 Americans die in Vietnam? I'm gagging on all this 'morality'... I'm sure that can justify this in some kind of 'lesser evil' context.
Ah well, it looks like you found a place to sell your narrative and everybody stays on script, where 's
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a Basically Hair-brained Operator
OT but I see this all the time. What does "hair-brained" mean? That his brain is covered with hair? I think you want "hare-brained;" rabbits aren't the smartest creatures on the forest </education>
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Since you do, I'll note that Ronny owned the failure and got the survivors out.
#OccupyResoluteDesk has truly owned and repented of exactly. .
So at least you can say he's a consistent lout.
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"You have the luxury of not knowing what he knows"
Your insistent differentiation of these people is the misdirection.
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I'm Gonna Jill-Off (Score:2)
At least can face my partner, in the morning.
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Of course, if we were to get the Obama that we thought we voted for in 2008, that would be much, much, better. Instead, we voted for Obama and were given a third GWB administration.
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D'you live in a state where it's even a contest?
California is the nation's most populous irrelevancy. [270towin.com]
Probability of Reaching 270 Electoral College Votes:
Democrats 77%
Republicans 22%
Neither (Tie) 1%
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D'you live in a state where it's even a contest?
Likely not. However the "frankenstorm" has impacted my current state in a way that favors one party over another (where's Jerry Falwell declaring this to be "God's will"?). Hence in the name of doing my part to ensure that Romney doesn't get a chance to drive me out of work, I will still vote Obama.
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Jerry Falwell?
Is it still 1988 in your parts.
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Jerry Falwell?
Is it still 1988 in your parts.
Actually, yes - though not for that reason. That said, Falwell didn't die until 2007.
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But voting for the assassin and total destruction creates jobs. We can do a total makeover the entire planet in our image.
Electing The Romney... (Score:2)
...would further enable the right-wing nut jobs in Congress more than re-electing Obama.
Said nut jobs will probably work as hard in a second Obama administration to prevent anything getting accomplished as they did in the first one, but that's still better than the kind of stuff they'd accomplish if The Romney was elected.