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Insidb said:
These are the issues they campaign on, purport themselves to represent, and that grab the support of uninformed voters. An honest assessment of the parties would find them to be exactly as you state they are; they represent overlapping agendas that are not reprsentative of the populace. My intent is just to discern leanings of the forum users, so I can normalize the Trump/Obama polls. We are largely in agreement and most likely share similar concerns about the political system, but I wanted to properly contextualize this poll. |
Yeah after I read the thread further, it became more clear what you were getting at. A few things: I don't think vgchartz is a random enough sample group, so while it would be interesting to see what the members think, I am unsure how much relevance it would have with things like polls or turnouts. In this thread I've seen Europeans(and other people from former European colonies) mention that the U.S seems more "right-winged" but if we use the classical definition of right-wing, Europe has more true conservatives than the U.S. It is only in the context of economic freedom vs. economic security that the U.S would *seemingly* fall on the right, but the right's idolation of markets is something recent. Historically the right has been much more for national economies based on mercantile systems (what we call keynesians today, pretty much.) In the 19th century it was predominately a left-wing affair to support free-markets with few regulations(for example Bastiat sat on the left aisle with Proudhon, and while they argued on the specifics of usury and property rights they both supported free markets and considered themselves allies.) So rather than it being that the U.S is more right-winged, it is more a case of a different definition of what is left-wing and right-wing.
