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How do your beliefs align with the potential candidates? (A quiz about American presidential candidates)

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#1 · (Edited)
I came across this quiz today. I suppose it's a decent tool for people who are voting in the primaries, but aren't exactly aware of what all the political candidates stand for.

(I can't actually vote, but I like to stay on top of things)

http://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz

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My original test was completely off because I accidentally skipped a bunch of questions and just clicked yes and no instead of looking at the more nuanced answers. After re-taking the test, this is what showed up

77% Hilary
76% Bernie Sanders

Mostly democratic/liberal ... which is close, but not really as I'm a centrist right down the middle.

http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1092554845
 

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#3 ·
And Cruz is a cheerleader for Trump who said:

"They're bringing drugs," Trump said in his presidential announcement speech. "They're bringing crime. They're rapists."
Trump also said he wants to build a "great wall on our southern border" to keep illegal immigrants from Mexico out of the United States."


Hispanics really hate each other huh ;)
 
#4 · (Edited)
96% Sanders apparently...

Didn't need to take the quiz anyway, I already knew he was my favourite.

If you read the 'compare answers' page you would realise how it could come out as inaccurate though, it has claimed I am in agreement with people on some things where we have practically said completely different things.
 
#8 ·
I could have told you you were Republican. You think unarmed African Americans being disproportionately killed by the police is "liberal propaganda" and touted that "they're equally as likely" without acknowledging that black Americans are one fifth of the population thus making them *five times* as likely. These repeated findings are consistent with years and years of data showing greater probability of arrest *for the same low level crimes/misdemeanors*, greater probability of receiving a guilty verdict and notably harsher punishments when found guilty of the same charge as white Americans.


This data is not hard to find, it's hard to avoid and yes this is coming from an Englishman who's apparently more exposed to the reality than you as an American. You dismissed mention of mass incarcerations (the United States has the highest incarceration rate per capita of any country in the world) and a number of related social issues - it is plainly obvious that you lean towards the Republican mindset because you lack both:

-Admission/acknowledgement of these epidemic problems that don't affect you but ruin/end the lives of so many of your countrymen.

-Empathy regarding the above.


What's funny is that you called me self unaware. This should not be a left/ring liberal/conservative Democrat/Republican issue because there should be no party or political leaning of "Bury your heads in the sand so long as you're not personally affected and dismiss the mountains of proof confirming these terrible social issues as 'liberal propaganda'".

Such as it is, there is and that party is called the Republican Party - you will fit like a glove. You'll never have a president elected again because the majority of your country is left of centre while Republicans have to out right and out crazy each other to win their primaries only to inevitably lose because their only winning ticket would be a centre Republican, not a far right maniac who alienates the national voters.

Stop me if I'm wrong though.
 
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I've had enough of your [snip] RiC. I thought you were just an [snip], but now you've crossed from that into complete and utter [snipped] by trying to use "you're a republican" as though it's some sort of an insult, and then tossed out the "police are racist" crap ... which has been thoroughly debunked. Also, in your zeal to think that being a republican is some sort of an insult, you reveal your liberal brainwashing even more. One can be a republican and anti-racist, one can be republican and liberal on foreign policy ... but I guess your brain is too puny to think about that logically .. and just idiotically think that "republicans are racissst .. hurr durr burr .." Damn, show some intellect child.

The police are not just racist (some are, but by and large they are not) - but they are more violent and have more power to kill than they should (even that is debateable because a lot of police here end up in a life or death situation and walk in on violent crimes in progress).

However, the police here face more life-threatening situations because arms are so easily available than in any other first country (which is a debate all its own). If you can't disarm the country , then you certainly cannot curtail the police right to self-defense either .. Otherwise the police homicide rate will go up.

Of course there will be innocent victims of police brutality but every figure and statistic shows that it is not just blacks who face the problem of police brutality and it is NOT a racial issue - but a police brutality issue. All Americans face this problem and no one faces it disproportionately unlike what your media has brainwashed you into believing.

The fact that you're too much of a child to recognize this (alongwith all the liberals that keep turning this into a race issue as opposed to a human rights issue) is short-sighted .. and part of the reason why it's debated as opposed to having any real action done against the overall situation.

There are more white people killed by the police than blacks. But there are more violent crimes committed by the blacks. The number of blacks in America is less than whites, but the number of violent crimes committed by blacks is also disproportionately higher than whites. Blacks commit 3 times more violent crimes than whites, and yet their population number is 1/3 that of whites AND more whites are shot by police than blacks.

From 1990-2008, blacks accounted for 52% of all homicides in the States and Whites 45% ... Both numbers dropped to 38% and 31% by 2013 respectively. The offending rate is 6-8 times higher for blacks than it is for whites. Blacks kill blacks and whites kill whites significantly so. Also, the number of police that were shot and killed in the states is also nearing a 100 in 2015 already ... but why aren't we talking about them .. realizing the amount of violent situations they find themselves in?

When we talk about crime being demarkated along racial lines, then why do liberals ignore the stats that suggest that by and large the minorities commit more violent crimes than the majority .. Now how they end up in these situtations is yet another debate and I'm willing to concede that assimilation is part of the problem (not the entire problem because the majority of blacks and other minorities are non-violent) ... And they also live successful and happy lives. Racism is a problem, but it is not as pervasive as it is made out to be when you actually examine the statistics.

The problem here is the politicization of killings, crime and what I see as human rights violations (in terms of police brutality as a whole) into a race war when if you look at the overall context, it's not a strictly race problem, but a police power combined with overall aggression and prevalence of violent crime problem in the States. When we fail to address the overall nature of the problem and only try to make it a race one, then we reveal our ignorance of the larger issue at hand and therefore fail to act appropriately in the direction it needs to be acted upon.

But please ... feel free to ignore the overall nuance of the situation for your propaganda. Also feel free to ignore the mountains of evidence presented above though. It counters your "cops are racist" crap, but that's not going to change your mind. It's too bullheadedly stuck inside a single-minded narrative.
 
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Oh. BTW RiC .... if you didn't just jump at a chance to continue this stupid exchange between us ... You'd actually see that I agree with the liberal democrats (Bernie Sanders) on the social issues (which includes race -- and also IIRC this quiz did not ask for opinions on race issues anyways) ..

Did you even think at all before you threw your childish tantrum the minute you saw "republican" ... Please stop being such a child. People within the different parties have a range of opinions on all issues. Just because leans more towards one side doesn't mean they agree with the most conservative opinions of the most conservative members of that party (which again is a stereotype of some extended to all members of those party members anyways) ..

For someone fighting the good fight against stereotypes, you seem to hold really negative stereotypes of republicans for some reason. But if you think it does, then you're even more uneducated than I originally thought :eyeroll
 
#13 · (Edited)
Seems I match 95% with Bernie Sanders.

Seeing as I answered all the questions, and even went into depth on many of them, I guess that’s who I should hope gets the nomination for the Democrats. Not that I can vote in the US elections but, as a neighbour, I’d like someone I wouldn’t hate in charge south of the border. :grin2:


Reading a little further, I see the quiz places me as far left-wing…

Left-Wing
Your political beliefs would be considered strongly Left-Wing on an ideological scale, meaning you tend to support policies that promote social and economic equality.


Not exactly news. What I *did* find interesting was that the only non-Democrat to score above 50% with me was Rand Paul. He was almost tied with Hillary and that Martin guy (whoever he is). Seems like an odd alliance for a far-leftie like myself.
 
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#20 · (Edited)
Marco Rubio

He is not a bad candidate and I'd run him if I was the Republican party

His parents were Cuban immigrants which I think would make him very likeable among the powerful hispanic voting block

His biggest problem is he is the happy shiny face of the Tea Party that has reasonable goals and ideas that they use to hook people in and drag them to extremism

I think he just rolls with them for unquestioned support

The test is a bit flawed however

the results I was given match him on the most of the "little" issuies that I would never elect someone over but oppose him on the big ones I would elect someone over
 
#21 ·
Ok ... I re-took the test and realized that I had missed many of the more nuanced stances + missed clicking on several of the "answer more questions" ... To end up with this:

77% Hilary Clinton
76% Bernie Sanders

I don't disagree with much of either. With Hilary, I think she's too much of a feminist (but not enough to deter me from acknowledging the strength of other stances) and with Bernie Sanders, the only thing I've thus far totally disagreed on is is stance on GMO's ... but it's a minor nibble. Looks like America is ready for a fully Centrist government, because that's what Sanders is touted as and seems to be showing up more and more in this test as well.

This makes much more sense. So much for all that anger over a mistaken leaning caused by errors in test-taking :lol

And as expected ... that shifts me towards being a total Centrist .. which is what I've always known I was. I just fucked up the test. I'll re-edit my OP.

http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1092554845
 
#33 ·
% 86 Sanders. Which I figured. Change happens with Congress. We need more Bernie Sanders types in Congress not as President. Sanders won't accomplish much as a President because he doesn't appeal to the big cats of Politics and Big Business.
 
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