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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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How populist are you? QUIZ
« 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.
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Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
« Reply #2 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.

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« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2018, 09:45:29 pm »
Non-populist left for me.  Not close to anyone on their list. 
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« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2018, 10:03:40 pm »
Closest to Obama, farthest from Trump and just below the horizontal, slightly to the left. 
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Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
« Reply #5 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.
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« Reply #6 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

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« Reply #7 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.
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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2018, 05:36:35 am »
I keep taking these things and landing squarely in the centre.

I am worried.

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« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2018, 09:38:26 am »


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.

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« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2018, 02:56:48 pm »
My score was Cybercoma’s except below the horizontal axis.

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« Reply #12 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.
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Re: How populist are you? QUIZ
« Reply #13 on: November 26, 2018, 03:50:29 pm »
I'm upper left quadrant, just a touch about Obama.
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« Reply #14 on: November 26, 2018, 04:34:45 pm »
I'm upper left quadrant, just a touch about Obama.

Commie!  :o
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