You contain multitudes. Are you a Moderate Centrist, an Expansive Pluralist, an Advocate, or an Ideologue? Take the test & find out.
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Introducing the Plural Politics Test. A thread: Folks love taking quizzes. We’re addicted to psychometric self-understanding. The problem, though, is most political quizzes fail in decisive ways. This quiz redresses some of those shortcomings. Primarily, it's character-building.
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A sweeping statement (since ideological consistencies can/do emerge “logically,” without being externally motivated) but the basic incoherence of human moral impulses is the starting point of the Plural Politics Test
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What about you? Identify with any of these podcasters? Are the left and right codings correct?
set aside partisan codings: the most bitter pill about this chart is that at best I barely tolerate most of what’s on it
There’s not a single name on this list that makes me think “yeah, this person’s guiding us towards a good direction politically. glad to have them there”
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@GavinNewsom's chat with Bannon is generating lots of talk about ideology & what it means to be left or right. Wondering what the Plural Politics results will be for the next two U.S. presidential candidates. They might be historically atypical! PluralPolitics.com
The irony is the Trump administration is filled with oligarchs -- people Steve Bannon professes to hate -- who are fighting for tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy.
This is all paid for by gutting programs working folks need to survive -- the very people @Bannons_WarRoom claims to fight for.
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Is this kind of dogmatic mindset the "bare essence of conservatism"? It might be more complicated. PluralPolitics.com
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Great example of ideological expansion, which nourishes empathy, which increases your political power. PluralPolitics.com
Everyone is looking for my so-called pivot. It's not in the policy. It's not in the labels. It's not in the strategy. But I found it. There is something different. I don't hate the other side anymore. And that might be the biggest difference of all. And the biggest sin for some.
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How do "Liberty-Loving" Ideologues / Advocates react? PluralPolitics.com
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As in spirituality, so in politics. Pluralistic understanding bolsters pluralistic experience, which bolsters pluralistic practice. Culminating in holistic richness of being and newfound power
Here is a clip from my talk on post-postmodern spiritual pluralsim on why spirituality is more than practice. Watch the full video here: xitter.gq/CultureDevelops/status…
Cummings: "Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself." True? How much do *feelings* make a unique identity? Should feelings guide one's political identity?
"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight."
Never a bad day for good advice from a great artist: themarginalian.org/2017/09/2…
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A lot has changed since this account last posted. Politics are crazier/more interesting now than any time in recent memory. But one thing's the same: the Plural Politics Test will give you a nuanced result in a landscape of bullheadedness. pluralpolitics.com/
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New privacy notice on the site! In short, Plural Politics collects no personally identifying info, sells nothing to 3rd parties, & will never ever have ads.
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I made ChatGPT, Gemini, & Grok take the Plural Politics Test. They're all ideologues.
To put it simply:
ChatGPT = President Obama.
Gemini = Prime Minister Trudeau.
Grok = Grimes.
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The old left-right line fails to account for their differences. Trump higher in Progressivism & Haley in Liberty-Loving. For a Republican, Trump's remarkably low in Traditionalism. That's his defining quirk. Hypothetical Trump test results here. Thoughts? pluralpolitics.com
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