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Beyond Canada => The World => Topic started by: Queefer Sutherland on November 21, 2018, 07:59:07 pm

Title: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on November 21, 2018, 07:59:07 pm
Take the quiz.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2018/nov/21/how-populist-are-you-quiz

I'm almost halfway up the vertical populist axis and a couple squares left of center on the horizontal axis.  I'm most similar to AMLO (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) the Mexican President and least similar to Trump.
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: guest7 on November 21, 2018, 08:28:27 pm
Take the quiz.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2018/nov/21/how-populist-are-you-quiz

I'm almost halfway up the vertical populist axis and a couple squares left of center on the horizontal axis.  I'm most similar to AMLO (Andrés Manuel López Obrador) the Mexican President and least similar to Trump.

That's the score I got when I did it on my laptop this evening. 

When I did it on my phone earlier today I came closest to Barack Obama and furthest from DT.  I don't know what I answered differently.
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on November 21, 2018, 08:52:58 pm
That's the score I got when I did it on my laptop this evening. 

When I did it on my phone earlier today I came closest to Barack Obama and furthest from DT.  I don't know what I answered differently.

SOULMATES!!!  :-*
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on November 21, 2018, 09:45:29 pm
Non-populist left for me.  Not close to anyone on their list. 
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: guest4 on November 21, 2018, 10:03:40 pm
Closest to Obama, farthest from Trump and just below the horizontal, slightly to the left. 
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: wilber on November 21, 2018, 10:18:56 pm
Closest to Obama, farthest from Trump and just below the horizontal, slightly to the left.

Same here.
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: Omni on November 21, 2018, 10:24:33 pm
Introduce this over at mlw. Anybody want to wager on where the likes of bc4 and taxme score? :D
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: Queefer Sutherland on November 21, 2018, 10:57:06 pm
I think most people who do this will be furthest from Trump simply because he's the furthest to the right on their grid.

There's no way Obama is close to the middle on the populist/elitist axis on their scale.  What he said was often left-populist but how he governed certainly wasn't.  He was quite elitist, in bed with the Washington insiders, lobbyists, big corporations & corporate donors etc.  Trump is a reaction to what he and his predecessors have done or failed to do the last 40 years.
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: Michael Hardner on November 22, 2018, 05:36:35 am
I keep taking these things and landing squarely in the centre.

I am worried.
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: cybercoma on November 22, 2018, 07:18:02 am
(https://i.imgur.com/cAo67RG.png)
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: JMT on November 22, 2018, 09:38:26 am
(https://i.imgur.com/cAo67RG.png)

You're far more populist than me, anyway - I'm slightly below the line and significantly to the left; 5 over and 1 down from Obama.
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: Squidward von Squidderson on November 22, 2018, 02:56:48 pm
My score was Cybercoma’s except below the horizontal axis.
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: SirJohn on November 24, 2018, 11:31:14 am
It will surprise no one that mine was on the right and above the horizontal axis. But not by a hell of a lot. I'm about four over and five up. I question the validity of this quiz, though, as the questions would seem to often bear little resemblance to populism. They're more about ideology.
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: Goddess on November 26, 2018, 03:50:29 pm
I'm upper left quadrant, just a touch about Obama.
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: SirJohn on November 26, 2018, 04:34:45 pm
I'm upper left quadrant, just a touch about Obama.

Commie!  :o
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: Goddess on November 26, 2018, 05:55:27 pm
Commie!  :o

Typo - I meant "above" Obama.

And that's MS. Commie to you  :D
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: waldo on January 29, 2019, 12:35:30 am
ok, ok... months back there was a flash of media appearances... now, again, Harper's back! On Fox a few days back, and now under the guise of fake academia, he drops a video about "Populist Conservatism"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFWE2jl5mwA

(while, apparently, presuming to disregard/discount Russian influence in electing Trump)

separate from discussing the merits (if any) of Harper's spiel, just what is Harper's end game here? Just to sell books... or is Harper angling for something else here? Surely he's aware Scheer has a lock on the Harper2.0 brand/persona - surely!
Title: Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
Post by: Michael Hardner on January 29, 2019, 06:12:16 am
He wasn't populist.  One acronym:TPP.