{"id":29980,"date":"2012-08-27T08:50:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T14:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/which-party-should-you-belong-to.html"},"modified":"2012-08-27T08:50:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T14:50:47","slug":"which-party-should-you-belong-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/which-party-should-you-belong-to.html","title":{"rendered":"Which party &quot;should&quot; you belong to?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Granted this is based on a handful of questions (and pretty unnuanced questions at that). And granted that there are more than two parties in this country (though not effectively so). And granted that there are more dimensions to political ideology than a single one. \u00a0And granted that each party contains tons of contradictions within itself &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I find it remarkable that I came up as way-fringe-Liberal Democrat, because, man, I know way-fringe-Liberal Democrats and I don&#39;t think of myself as one of them (and I clicked on a lot of &quot;somewhat agree\/disagree&quot; choices, too).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104949783880295529564'>Jerome Comeau<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#39;m shocked. \u00a0Seriously, shocked; these questions are INCREDIBLY slanted, and the idea that there are people who choose anything other than the answers I chose makes me ill.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, yeah. \u00a0Lefty Liberal Loony. \u00a0And to think, 15 years ago I was a die-hard Republican&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/vote2012\/quiz\/\" >http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/vote2012\/quiz\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-3yXLP3w6LFQ\/UDuFtieEqoI\/AAAAAAAAAxo\/7mdu2z4DeeU\/Liberal.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-3yXLP3w6LFQ\/UDuFtieEqoI\/AAAAAAAAAxo\/7mdu2z4DeeU\/Liberal.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/2SqSUeBSZdt' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granted this is based on a handful of questions (and pretty unnuanced questions at that). And granted that there are more than two parties in this country (though not effectively so). And granted that there are more dimensions to political ideology than a single one. \u00a0And granted that each party contains tons of contradictions within &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/27\/which-party-should-you-belong-to.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Which party &quot;should&quot; you belong to?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42442,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/08\/political-platform-zaniness.html","url_meta":{"origin":29980,"position":0},"title":"Political Platform Zaniness","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-Jun-14 2:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Courtesy of the Texas GOP.Granted, political platforms tend to be, any more, fairly fringe ivory tower ideals that nobody thinks will happen (or even particular want to have happen). \u00a0But this bunch of proposals can essentially be summed up as \"we need to use our God-given guns to drive off\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5333,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/06\/just_to_show.html","url_meta":{"origin":29980,"position":1},"title":"Just to show &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Apr-04 7:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"... that Colorado is not always at the foremost fringe on some political issues, the Musgrave Amendment, a US constitutional amendment banning gay marriage introduced by a Colorado Representative, is...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;LGBTQ &amp;c&quot;","block_context":{"text":"LGBTQ &amp;c","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gay-stuff"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11085,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/no_matter_how_conservativ.html","url_meta":{"origin":29980,"position":2},"title":"No matter how conservative you are &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Apr-07 2:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"... you can always find someone further out on the fringe. \u00a0Word from Colorado Springs, not a town known for its wild leaps of liberal licentiousness, of some soon-to-arrive visitors:...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Religion&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Religion","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/religion"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32297,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/23\/the-threat-of-american-dictatorship.html","url_meta":{"origin":29980,"position":3},"title":"The threat of American dictatorship","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 23-Jan-13 2:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Granted, I heard a lot of people argue the same thing about George W. 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