IW Political Bias Poll

[Azimaith]

Ok, heres a poll to see where you think this IW forum is on the political scale if at all.

[Azimaith]

Looks like most people won't touch this with a ten foot pole. Now we know what good those were when I bought them in D&D

[Grojlach]

Quote from Azimaith's signature: Help me! I'm surrounded by liberal hippies! AAAH!

Wow, I wonder what you voted...

Anyways, it depends on your perspective, I suppose. The average American rightwinger (or at least someone who claims to be moderate rightwing) is frustratingly ultra-right to European standards on a number of subjects, while I suppose the same goes the other way around with the average European leftwinger. Things have been said on this forum that would have been mostly regarded with disbelief and a pity/ridicule-hybrid in the European press, while it's apparently quite normal to American standards - and that goes vice versa just the same, I suppose.

As far as political bias goes, it mostly depends on who are active on the forum - it differs from period to period. But on average, I suppose it's rather balanced.

[ 10-29-2003, 05:32 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]

[Arledrian]

IW is really varied - we have loads of lefties and loads of righties. It often causes the most flame wars in both the GD and CE forums. Someone will say "gay marriage is cool man, let's respect it and share the love!" and then some other dude will come in and say "ugh, disgusting hippies, let's shoot them all" or something along those lines. Moderators get involved, topic gets closed, badaboom. Tis how it usually goes round here.

[Azimaith]

lol, I thought I was being real discreet with my sig. Nah, really though, i'm a moderate conservative, I don't have patience for ultra right or left.

perfect example, azimath. no one ever calls themselves an extremist - that's a label for everybody else!

if you spend any significant amount of time in other countries, and especially on other continents, you start to realise just how narrow the "extreme" viewpoints back home are.

[Azimaith]

Hehehe. I'm not extreme! Your just weird! I get it I get it hehe.

[Xen]

It doesn`t lean at all IMHO.

[Azimaith]

Funny, I think the people who says it leans right are insane but...

in my opinion, the question about lean is fundamentally flawed in as much as it's a gross oversimplification.

there are individual rights issues as wide ranging as gun control, abortion, euthanasia, civil/women's/and homosexuality rights, and the death penalty (not to even tackle the terrorism bills).

there are social program issues as wide ranging as health care, education, the social security pension, and welfare and unemployment coverage.

and then you have the economic issues such as corporate governance, foreign aid, federal deficit management, trade, tarrifs, industrial protectionism, consumer activism.

any individual can be far left on one thing, far right on another, and middle of the road on still another - and that might just be three things within one of those lists!

add to this something as gross as aggregating the expressed opinions of all those on the board... whew!

as someone who said this board has a far right leaning, it probably has more to do with how outspoken those extremists are (and yes, i'm not the extremist, they are! ), than that they represent all of IW's 14,000 members.

but then again, george bush is representing america to the world - how do you think they think about the US because of him?