One thing that struck me about the quiz (which is of course different from the survey that was given), is the base assumptions in some of the questions. Case in point the one about whether most people can be trusted or whether you need to be wary of others. I suspect that the second answer gets a tick in the "conservative" column, but I answered that way anyway because I definitely need to be wary... of white men. But there isn't really the ability to tease that out, and there were a few questions like that where my answer was "Yeah, but not for the reasons this instrument is obviously extrapolating."
posted by soren_lorensen at 12:18 PM on October 10 [15 favorites]

I don't doubt it. It's just that Americans also like to believe that it's always someone else demanding "political correctness" of them. Many of the same people who object to the word "cisgender" for example, will also insist on the importance of saying "Merry Christmas."

Condemning, yes, but I don't see them "writing them off as little Eichmanns." Indeed, the comments from posters like supercres go out of their way to say they're not the same as the MAGA chuds.
posted by zombieflanders at 12:54 PM on October 10

I think what exhausts me about this is - okay, I grew up in a conservative-ish family in a conservative-ish area. Very midwest, shucks, let's all just get along. I know that culture.

I know, too, that there are plenty of people who self-identify as moderately conservative, or "socially liberal but fiscal conservative". I know plenty of people who vote mostly-entirely GOP who are also personally pro-choice and at least okay with gay marriage / LGBTQ rights.

And yet they keep fucking voting for anti-gay, anti-abortion fanatics, out of their belief that these people are still 'better' than Democrats with the economy, or terrorism, or individual freedoms (unless you are gay or a woman.)

I am tired. I am tired of telling people it's okay, I know they don't personally hate gays and women, when they keep voting for people who do. I am tired of hearing that I need to understand them and be "tolerant" because they don't agree with "the whole conservative agenda". I am tired of the "good conservatives" being willing to gamble our futures because "they'll never REALLY get rid of Roe, or gay marriage".

I need them to take action. I keep hearing there are reasonable, good, moderate Republicans out there. I need them to stand the fuck up to their party. I need them to support and vote for pro-choice Republicans if that's their belief. I need them to run for office themselves if their party-groomed candidates don't represent their beliefs. Where is the progressive GOP movement?
posted by nakedmolerats at 11:22 AM on October 12 [8 favorites]