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I'm not American, and fell sort of out-of-place taking this quiz, but what the hell. So, if I were American, I'd likely vote for Bernie Sanders.
I'm in that boat too.
I'm not American, and fell sort of out-of-place taking this quiz, but what the hell. So, if I were American, I'd likely vote for Bernie Sanders.
I'm in that boat too.
Someone want to tell me why they support Bernie?
The Bernie-Boat or the Foreign-Boat?
Someone want to tell me why they support Bernie?
What's wrong with Ted Cruz?
Also, sorry to anyone whom might have Republican leanings, but to the rest of the world, US Republican candidates all seem batshit crazy and ass backwards and highly militaristic in many respects. Each time the US elects a Republican, the rest of the western world cringe and pray they won't be re-elected. Like Bush.
A foreigner's view of the American Parties:
Republicans = Rich white dudes with guns wanting to empower rich white dudes with guns.
Democrats = The less crazy and sometimes sane Americans.
Many, many reasons. Favoring the death penalty, opposing same-sex marriage, pro-life, opposing Obamacare, denies climate change, gun advocate, opposing the legalization of marijuana and net-nutrality, and opposing a higher minimum wage.
On a personal level, the fact that he's a downright unlikeable person. I'm also in agreement with @Arclight that he's pretty strongly religious, and pretty apparently doesn't care about the separation of church and state.
Well all of those are good reasons. I actually personally disagree with many of his beliefs but I still find him the best man for the job.
Much better than Sanders IMO.
I'd much rather have someone who can fail to implement a good policy than one who can successfully implement a bad policy.
Good. Bad.
All a matter of perspective.
A foreigner's view of the American Parties:
Republicans = Rich white dudes with guns wanting to empower rich white dudes with guns.
Democrats = The less crazy and sometimes sane Americans.
This is an over-generalization and somewhat offensive. Both parties are represented by both good and bad, intelligent and unintelligent, rich and poor Americans. The thread is about stating your "Political Compass" and not insulting others for your ignorant over-generalizations
It is a (over-)generalization, that was the point.
And I am aware that both sides have extremes on both ends.
And I did say that I'm sorry to anyone that might have Republican leanings.
I was making a point of that's how the two parties come across internationally. If someone isn't very interested in American politics and take time to study the internal intricacies of how the parties interact with one another and internally, and the rest of the (to us, frankly bizzare) American governmental structure, then that's the general view they have, because that's how the media covers them, and that's how they come across to us Non-Americans.
Take Obamacare, and the rest of Obama's government. To us foreigners, he seems to be the sanest president you've had in decades. To us, he looks like he lowered unemployment by a ton (I know he fudged the numbers by only counting genuine US citizens or whatever it was), Obamacare was portrayed to be something that was sane and actually worked (and not ****** up like I know it is), and so on and so forth. Media over here isn't interested in the details. They want us to go "Look at the crazy Americans and the not-so-crazy Americans throwing filth at one another in what they call politics".
Welcome to TexasMany, many reasons. Favoring the death penalty, opposing same-sex marriage, pro-life, opposing Obamacare, denies climate change, gun advocate, opposing the legalization of marijuana and net-nutrality, and opposing a higher minimum wage.
On a personal level, the fact that he's a downright unlikeable person. I'm also in agreement with @Arclight that he's pretty strongly religious, and pretty apparently doesn't care about the separation of church and state.