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
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.”
I literally couldn’t bear to do a second one this is incredible
I got them all right until then, then quit immediately after that one
https://xcancel.com/slavomir_YU/status/1494495040206430209
I wish no harm to american ruling class, my enemy is the american people
I got 8/16, most of these mfs reasons are absolutely unhinged.
The worst offender:
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”?
Because vibes! Looking for evidence is just too exhausting……
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.
He’s a successful businessman, and the country should be run like a business.
Pit. Immediately.
Well, they’re certainly getting their wish.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Median US voter’s politics =
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.
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).
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
I don’t understand how people are so easily fooled, like seriously…
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.
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!
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.
“Normalizing electoral politics” is like “platforming the President”.
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.
I was 2/12 so i had to have a lie down
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:
