How Liberal Do You Think You Are Relative To The General Public?

[TomCADem]

Poll question: How Liberal Do You Think You Are Relative To The General Public?

How liberal do we perceive ourselves to be compared to the general public? Would you say that are more liberal than just 50 percent of the U.S. voting age population? Or, do you believe that Dennis Kucinich is right of you? Or, are you sitting pretty with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh with less than 10 percent of voting age Americans being less liberal than you?

This isn't scientific. This is self-perception.

[leftstreet]

1. Define liberal

[TomCADem]

2. Self-Perception - Based On Your Personal Definition Of "Liberal" Applied To Everyone

No need to elaborate on what you mean by liberal. According to your own criteria of what constitutes a "liberal" political philosophy, how much more liberal are you than other voting age Americans.

[cyclezealot]

11. Thanks for asking.

Most Americans have no idea what the word means.. Most suspect it has to do with liberal child molesters taking porn photos of their offspring.. .
Nothing to be ashamed of the word liberal, it's the basis of a civil society..
. Americans may not realize it.. But, what America needs and if questioned most Americans would unknowingly support a minor infusion of socialism into their economic life.. . Just ask those swindled and have lost their homes- thanks to the current batch of banker barons

[AllentownJake]

3. Well if my ideas on taxation, corporations, free trade, immigration, healthcare, etc

were polled, I'd be in the mainstream. If we put personality names to it, I'm a radical leftist.

[Echo In Light]

15. +1

[JoeyT]

16. I wish someone would poll

people on their positions on issues instead of asking how liberal they consider themselves. It would be highly amusing to see what came of it. "All in favor of gutting NAFTA/CAFTA/GATT? Who here likes roads, electricity, and running water? Anyone want to make under a dollar an hour?"

[Edweird]

4. I honestly have no clue.

My last girlfriend identified herself as 'ultra-liberal', and she labeled my stances an 'odd mix'. I was more liberal than her on some issues, and on some others I was more conservative. For example I own guns, a 4X4 and at that time had a pit bull. I'll never be nominated for 'progressive of the year', but I'm ok with that.

[JoeyT]

14. I'm completely

unaware of anything in liberal philosophy that demands you get rid of your guns, your truck, or your pit bull.
Even if there were, it'd be pretty far down on the list. So you might make progressive of the year yet. ;)

[pipi_k]

17. I'm clueless too, for the same reasons

on some issues I'm pretty liberal...others, not so much.

Sort of a mongrel, I guess...

:shrug:

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. According to that ridiculous survey over at the Center For DLC American Fake Progressives

I'm "extreme". But that was only based on "inside the beltway" insanity standards, not the real world.

[FLAprogressive]

6. gotta love self-proclaimed "moderates". So wishy washy and fake they can't stand for ANYTHING.

only corporations.

[pipi_k]

18. On "wishy washy" Moderates

I guess I'm one of those.

But I don't see myself as being weak and wishy washy. My problem is that I don't see the entire world in absolutes, this is "right" and this is "wrong".

I realized that even a piece of paper has two sides, and either side can be just as "valid" as the other.

Yes, there are issues that are morally easy to decide, but not all of them are.

And I've gotten to a point in my life where I realize that I really don't know everything, like I thought I did when I was younger.


:shrug:

[iris27]

7. My Facebook "political beliefs" read "too left for the Democrats,

too realistic for a third party".

[Bjorn Against]

8. I would consider myself a leftist rather than a liberal

I answered 95%, but people could argue that I am to the left of 99% of the public. I doubt anyone who knows me would put me below the 90% mark, but everything depends on how the word "liberal" is defined. Leftist is definitely a better world to describe me than liberal is, but my assumption is that by the wording of your poll you are considering liberal to be everything to the left of center.

[cyclezealot]

12. Yes.

with some selective socialist sympathies. Exactly what the country needs to counter the crooks on Wall Street .

[Ozymanithrax]

9. Who is General Public, and what army does he command?

Because the metric changes for every person taking the test, this poll seems pointless.

It hinges on a hazy idea every individual has of what the "General Public" is, how liberal they view the "general pubic" and how how liberal said person thinks he or she is.

[TomCADem]

10. Exactly, This Is Poll On Self-Perception Of How Liberal We Are...

...based on our own perceptions of what it means to be liberal. I am not even going to try to define liberal. This would just invite some huge pointless fight.

The point of this exercise is just to see how DUers perceive themselves. Now, I have no idea how accurate this perceptions are. Look at Sarah Palin's "Real America" crowd. They may see themselves as firmly in the mainstream of political thought. Who knows?

[bunkerbuster1]

13. Went with "50 percent" because I think the general public is pretty liberal.

It's just that controlling interests (yer corporate media, yer military industrial complex, et al) really, really don't want us to be aware of that.