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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net to c/electoralism@hexbear.net

Link to the quiz

I got a 10/16. The answers are somehow more incoherent than I thought they would be. What makes a voter this way? Is every liberal democracy like this to some degree?

[CW suicide] truly the epitome of this image

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[-] Kefla@hexbear.net 59 points 1 month ago

Question 1:

Opposes ‘Deporting all immigrants who are living in the US illegally back to their home country’

Thinks ‘The government should do more to help needy Americans, even if it means going deeper into debt.’

Oh ok they give you a softball, this is a mild lib who probably has the potential to lean into socialism with some education

"I voted for Trump out of support for Israel and the Second Amendment."

kitty-cri-screm

I literally couldn't bear to do a second one this is incredible

[-] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago

I got them all right until then, then quit immediately after that one

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://xcancel.com/slavomir_YU/status/1494495040206430209

I wish no harm to american ruling class, my enemy is the american people

[-] agentant@hexbear.net 39 points 1 month ago

I got 8/16, most of these mfs reasons are absolutely unhinged.

The worst offender:

[-] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 18 points 1 month ago

I argued with friends who voted for him in his first term over the "he's a good businessman" horseshit. How do you bankrupt a casino 6 fucking times and still have people call you a "good businessman"?

[-] Nasalstrip@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Because vibes! Looking for evidence is just too exhausting…..

[-] agentant@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Granted, given how fucked the US tax laws are, It wouldn't be hard to convince me that that's actually some random ass loophole that gets you more money that what you started with.

[-] Sickos@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

He’s a successful businessman, and the country should be run like a business.

Pit. Immediately. pit

[-] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 28 points 1 month ago

Well, they're certainly getting their wish.

[-] wheresmysurplusvalue@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

Christ I did horrible, 5/16. I think it would be better if the choices were randomized somehow though? Otherwise it feels a bit editorialized if the author picked the people with the most surprising takes in a certain order.

[-] PolyethylenePt2@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

yeah I’m skeptical because the sample size is the same 16 people for every person who takes the quiz so it shouldn’t be hard at all to find 16 voters with especially contradictory/surprising views. Maybe they could have had some survey of ~2000 people like this and each iteration of the quiz would consist of some random sample from this?

[-] decaptcha@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

I had this thought as well, and closed the tab when I realized a cherry-picked respondent and the most aggressively cartoonish representation of the incoherence of the 'median voter,' like it was cooked up in a writer's room... those people in this quiz would be indistinguishable to me.

It got some solid doom laughs out of me though.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

I only got 7. I would have gotten a higher score if the Zionist hadn't fucked me by deliberately selecting an option contrary to his initial stated policy preferences, all so he could spit on me by means of the explanation.

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago
[-] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 23 points 1 month ago

Median US voter's politics = i-am-adolf-hitler

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 20 points 1 month ago

7/16

The last one tho.

Spoiler"I’m black, and it don’t matter anyway. They do what they want when it comes to my race in America. We have no voice."

It feels like he was the only one who actually saw things as they are (besides the no voters).

[-] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The quiz does a good job out of showing the incoherency but if you show me 3 bullet points on economic opinions and then the answer is the person saying something about isnotreal and foreign policy I kinda feel like I got set up for failure tb'est of h's.

But also: holy fuck America needs a mass re-education program and I don't even mean that in the funny haha communist joke way I mean like we need just normal mass literacy programs. Run back 9th grade English or Lit or whatever at this point.

[-] tocopherol@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

White male John"He is not a career politician. He’s a successful businessman, and the country should be run like a business." NO, AND HE FUCKIN SUCKS AT THAT TOO ANYWAY agony-acid

[-] Nasalstrip@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

I don’t understand how people are so easily fooled, like seriously…

[-] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know I complain about this a lot, but its the illiteracy. Full stop. Only about 11% of amerikan adults are considered "literate"(which is scoring a minimum 65% on a literacy test).

This is by design. No ruling class would allow those they rule over to learn HOW they are being controlled.

Same with democracy, they won't allow us to vote on anything meaningful cause it would threaten their rule.

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

This is stupid exercise. Give us only 3 data points and they always cite a 4th as the most important issue. They're just being deliberately deceptive.

[-] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

This is the stupidest thing I've done in a long time. Hey, let's make up a bunch of people anr normalize electoral politics!

[-] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

Hey, let's make up a bunch of people anr normalize electoral politics!

I have bad news for you about how real these people are.

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

"Normalizing electoral politics" is like "platforming the President".

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

7/16. I knew US politics was incoherent, but so many of these were like "I oppose everything Trump does, but he's a shrewd businessman, so I voted for him." or "I hate everything about Harris' campaign and the democrats, but Trump is just too dangerous to vote for!"

They did throw me a really easy one though:

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

I was 2/12 so i had to have a lie down

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago

I got 5/16. I got #14 right without even looking at his opinions by just saying "white guy = trump" though I wasn't even sure about that one because these all just feel like me rolling dice. Hell, I'm pretty sure a purely random selection would haver done me better. I know the average voter is beyond fucking stupid but like... come on. Any ideological consistency, please.

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

American electoralism really is just a vibes-based random walk

[-] whatdoiputhere12@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

10/16, and that was just guesswork

Do I dare to look at personal views?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

What's this quiz even supposed to tell us? Only 2 of the options did not vote, which isn't representative of the US population at all.

[-] agentant@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I guess that American voters are unprincipled and vote in bizarre ways?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

But it doesn't. It tells us this specific selection of voters is incoherent and unprincipled, but the fact that the vast majority of them voted already tells us that this isn't a random sample of US voters. It comes across as cherry picking to prove a point.

[-] agentant@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

True. Quiz is most definitely terrible.

[-] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

TIL people mostly vote when aged 25-35. Nobody starts til they are in their 20s or goes much into their 50s.

[-] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 5 points 1 month ago

I got 9/16. I didn't vote, but had I known what a shit-show this was going to be, I would have voted for Kama-lama-ding-dong over the Cheeto Asshole.

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

8/16, I thought that was bad but I guess I did better than most of you. Probably it would have been easier to do this if views about israel had been included here.

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