Rath said:
Kasz216 said:
Rath said:
@Makingmusic. I agree, I can't help but feel that there is some sort of bias in how they're answering the question for every country to end up on the political right and for most of them to end up authoritarian. |
Well as for Obama.... there reasoning is
"He has extended Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, presided over a spiralling rich-poor gap and sacrificed further American jobs with recent free trade deals.Trade union rights have also eroded under his watch. He has expanded Bush defence spending, droned civilians, failed to close Guantanamo, supported the NDAA which effectively legalises martial law, allowed drilling and adopted a soft-touch position towards the banks that is to the right of European Conservative leaders. We list these because many of Obama’s detractors absurdly portray him as either a radical liberal or a socialist, while his apologists, equally absurdly, continue to view him as a well-intentioned progressive, tragically thwarted by overwhelming pressures. 2008's yes-we-can chanters, dazzled by pigment rather than policy detail, forgot to ask can what? Between 1998 and the last election, Obama amassed $37.6million from the financial services industry, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. While 2008 presidential candidate Obama appeared to champion universal health care, his first choice for Secretary of Health was a man who had spent years lobbying on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry against that very concept. Hey! You don't promise a successful pub, and then appoint the Salvation Army to run it. This time around, the honey-tongued President makes populist references to economic justice, while simultaneously appointing as his new Chief of Staff a former Citigroup executive concerned with hedge funds that bet on the housing market to collapse. Obama poses something of a challenge to The Political Compass, because he's a man of so few fixed principles.
As outrageous as it may appear, civil libertarians and human rights supporters would have actually fared better under a Republican administration. Had a Bush or McCain presidency continued Guantanamo and introduced the NDAA, the Democratic Party would have howled from the rooftops. Under a Democratic administration, these far-reaching developments have received scant opposition and a disgraceful absence of mainstream media coverage."
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A few things. Firstly that stuff they wrote up actually shows a bias in itself, it's all very subjective (which isn't what this should be). I also wasn't really talking about Obama - I was talking about the fact that for instance they include every European country listed as being 'right wing' despite some of them practically being socialist utopias.
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Economically or socialially? Because socially I find it hard to argue that any country is anywhere near a leftwing paradise looking at the various gaps measures and studies.
Economically... a "Socialist Paradise" is still mostly capitalist despite most conservative complaints.
I mean, Greece for example, had 25% of their workforce as public employees. That's 75% of the workers in the economy fundamentally more left wing then right wing.
I think the big problem is people fail to grasp the importance of the phrase "strongly agree with." Which essentially means "True in pretty much all cases."
So you if you Strongly disagree that what is best for a company is best for the world, you would essentially be arguing that it's pretty much NEVER the case, big multinatioanl corporations are evil. While even most leftwing government actually would probably err on "Somewhat agree." Most of the time transnational corporations help the world as a whole through economic growth and free trade but need some regulations to keep them in check. Only ones disagreeing really being the super protectionist leftwing style governments.
I mean look at this chart.
To be on the left. You essentially have to agree with Stalin more on economic matters then Margret Thatcher. In otherwords, something like the chinese government.
Though admittindly yes, the PC does seem to have a pretty liberal bias.
