So much talk of politics on the flist

[panik]

has inspired me to try the politics meme.

You are a Social Liberal (71% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (8% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also : The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Not terribly surprising really, I suppose. I know you get more right-wing as you get older but I still know all the words to the Red Flag. Vive la chardonnay revolution, say I ::waves fist in air in a rather half-hearted, embarrassed and English fashion:: Has anyone seen my copy of The New Statesman? I'm sure I left it lying around here somewhere. Under this plate of olives and the Pie D'Anglois perhaps...

Comments

[andeincascade.livejournal.com]

Hee! I am too. In fact, I think our scores are almost identical. They do say you get more conservative as you age but, you know, I don't think that's true for women. Certainly not the women in my family; we have tended to get more radical and that's three generation's of women for sure.

Well I...

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Come from a long line of Socialist activists and lived in Cuba for 9 years so you could say my stance has softned with age. *g*

[ledh.livejournal.com]

ahh, finally another socialist on here! :D let's unite and kill them righties. the extreme-right party in my country is on its way to become the biggest party. they're second now, with about 1/4 of the votes.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

At least you can still tell the difference, here you just don;t know who's left/right, red/blue - whatever - anymore.

[ledh.livejournal.com]

oh, but we have so much parties to chose from! you're basically limited to two parties in GB, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_general_election,_2007
have a look :) ("Flemish interest" is extreme right, fiy. and "cd&nv" is neutral right, "vld" is neutral left, "spa" is socialist, and green is extreme left) those i just summed up are just the biggest flemish parties. they all have wallonian counterparts.

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

does that meme really apply to you, though? as a UK citizen, i mean. i'm under the impression that it's really an (modern) American quiz. i know when i take it i come out Libertarian.

-bs

does that meme really apply to you, though?

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I don't see why not. Opinions and attitudes aren't nation-specific and the questions seem pretty general to me. Plenty of my UK flist have taken it - they've all come out all socialists. But then the UK is, in general, more left-leazning than the US. But then most of the Americans on my flist have also come out Socialist, so maybe not.

But I have no problems at all calling myself a Socialist, if that's what you're asking. It's what I am, for sure.

Re: does that meme really apply to you, though?

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

ok, i was just wondering, precisely because i know UK politics - and probably mainland Europe politics, too - tend to be lefter than US. so i can see someone going 'but i'm a conservative!' if they *are*, according to the UK spectrum, but would still test out liberal/ democrat on the US spectrum.

myself, and most of my non-fannish flist are libertarian. we just sound more conservative because we tend to vote to keep our guns. i wish 'keeping our guns' didn't seem to go hand in hand with 'idiotic religiosity enshrined in stupid laws', though.

-bs

Re: Really don't want to discuss the gun issue.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Really.

I've read your flist on occassion. I don't think they and I would find much to agree about. I'd rather keep our discussions fannish.

Re: Really don't want to discuss the gun issue.

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

no argument. i usually stay away from political posts because i get 'caught in the middle', as it were. i only mention it now because, well, election time. but i get over the political urge pretty quickly - it doesn't take much.

so, how are the husband and kids? you have kids, right?

-bs

Re: Really don't want to discuss the gun issue.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

A partner of 26 years (not married). No kids. You?

Re: Really don't want to discuss the gun issue.

[boogieshoes.livejournal.com]

neither. my parents keep telling me they want more grandkids, tho :-D

-bs

[comtesselupin.livejournal.com]

This was a quite interesting test. I don't know how accurate it really is, but I think it got me - more or less - right. :)

You are a

Social Liberal
(71% permissive)

and an...

Economic Liberal
(15% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Socialist

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Pretty much all of my flist are coming out the same.

[minerva-fan.livejournal.com]

Same as me!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Same as most of my flist. *g*