What's your political typology? (Quiz)

[Eagle367]

JackHandy said:

Eagle367 said:

From your statements in this thread. That's all I have to access you.

But I never said I thought I was super intelligent, or thought my belief system was super intelligent, or anything else for that matter. I also never claimed to belong to any group-think, political party or official affiliation either (because I don't; what I think is a vast hodgepodge too convoluted to fit into any one defined space). You said all those things. Not me. And while I don't really mind--because I don't argue with people on the internet--there are probably better ways of approaching people that you don't know online than labeling them as you see fit. For one thing, you don't know them, so it's at best a crap shoot and at worst a complete falsehood. And for another, it's just not polite.

Your caricature of a "moderate" or centrist sure seems to describe someone who is super intelligent and above the fray. And if you give such shining endorsement to those people, I thought it would be fair to think you believe that is the right way to go hence you are a proponent of that ideology hence a part of it. I mean no one in here would say I'm an ardent socialist dude but neoliberals have the best ideas. That would be a stupid take to have. And as such, an assumption that you see yourself as a centrist or moderate is a good one to make. Plus you have a problem understanding the fact that there are many people who don't believe what they believe just because their group believes it. What you call group-think. But rather people believe what they believe and they found other people thinking similarly and hence they banded together and to better classify such people, a name came up either from the group or from other people. 

I do admit that just having opinions because other people in your group have them is a real problem but you are conflating that and superimposing that on the majority of people that believe a certain way. It's a kind of elitist outlook on life and a form of looking down on others. 

Your examples of what a "moderate" is are also not well informed. In the end, it really doesn't matter what you call yourself, it's how you behave and what you do in the world and how you interact with others. There is nothing wrong with looking at people and making a judgement based on their beliefs. It helps us identify people we can work with and people we have to work against. In this thread, you have behaved strangely similar to an enlightened centrist.