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I'm thinking of adding a series of political questions to profiles and want to get your suggestions as to which ones to ask. There is an impressive political website at [isidewith.com] which has tons of questions. Would you mind going through their list and pick the top 10-15 questions you think are most useful for expressive your political views and to learn the views of others? Thanks!

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I hate political posts. One reason I'm ready to leave facebook.

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Immigrants tax responsibility, space exploration, education, legalizing all drugs, pressure on Congress to put caps on medicine prices, take the sales tax off of autos they are no longer a luxury, push for less oil dependency, Free wifi in major cities, get the outrageous ATM fees reduced, make it illegal for any large scale murder to get any publicity, in other words, report the incident and keep the assailants name out of the news. Well, some might not be issues they ought to be.

Luxury? Ee lad if we had rope sandals on our feet that were luxury!
Rope sandals! If we had socks that were luxury!
Sox? When we lived in't cardboard box in't gutter we used to pinch empty canvas bags of passing coal wagon to wrap round our feet to stop chilblains!
Canvas bags! Luxury lad. If we were lucky we'd catch a passing brown paper bag to wrap ower feet in and think ourseln lucky if we didn't hop into a puddle whilst wearing it!
Brahn paper bag! Luxury lad. We had to grease ouwer feet wi' dripping and hope it didn't melt or t'cockroaches eat it afore we got where we were goin'.
Drippin'! Drippin'. Luxury lad. We only got smell o' dripping an' that was fer breakfast, lunch an' tea! We 'ad to piggy back each other in't bare feet so as one could keep feet warm in't turns. Luxury, luxury, ... stagger out with hunched back and blue bare feet apart from bright shiny chilblains.

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Seems reasonable to me. Political questions are useful in for compatibility matching.

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I’m very politically active, my position is obvious... I don’t need to answer questions but for those that want that I’m not offended in the least... as long as it is optional I’m ok with whatever you all want... however, as divided as the country is I think I am able to pick up on peoples politics... soon as someone calls me snowflake I know how they vote.

roflmao! +1

Do you really read minds? Please teach me.

@FrayedBear some people let you know what they think through behavior, I pay attention. I don’t teach it but I recamend it.

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Just 15?
Electoral College
Student Loans
Charter Schools
GMO labels
Mandatory Vaccinations
Police Body Cams
Prison Overcrowding
Private Prisons
NATO
Torture
Military Spending
Lobbyists
Criminal Politicians
Campaign Finance
Candidate Transparency
Climate Change
Alternative Energy
Fracking
DAPL
Pension Reform
Welfare
Minimum Wage
Paid Sick Leave
Equal Pay
Labor Unions
Single Payer Health Care
Medicare Drug Prices
Marijuana
Social Security
Gun Control
Gerrymandering

And I could go on......

Too US specific ?

@Spongebob I would agree, but as I am an American from the US, that is what concerns me right now.

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If you are using these to tweak the compatibility ratings here are some suggestions that would matter to me:
Diet e.g. I often have high percent ratings with vegetarians/vegans, for me, this should be 0 as it's a dealbreaker to as far as any hope of an intimate relationship. I am not even kidding. I see it as a zealoty form of religion masquerading as environmentalism.

Feminism:
LGBT:
Political identity:
Pets: This is another deal breaker to me. If someone is not ok with animals nopety nope nope

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What party if any do you affiliate with? (list as many choices as possible)
How strongly do you support this party?
What issues are important to you? (list issues)
Are you politically active?
How are you active?

MsAl Level 8 Oct 20, 2018
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my political compass result:

Here's mine...Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.69

@phxbillcee, so mine would spell approximately: economic left/right -8.3, & social libertarian/authoritarian -7. forgot to look at the exact data.

@walklightly Seems pretty close.

@phxbillcee Seem to be quite a few of us here in that quadrant of the chart....my chart

@RPardoe We seem to be fairly close.

@phxbillcee Indeed....In the past, I was more centrist on the Economic Left/Right scale, but suspect the current political climate is driving me more towards the economic left these days. The social scale has always been very heavily weighted to the libertarian / anti-authoritarian end of the axis.

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We have proved beyond any doubt in this site that we have passed all kinds of tests on religion prejudice...... with flying colors. Now, politics seems to be still a minefield. Exploring the territory is the right approach as painful as it might be.....

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I think, for the sake of global inclusivity, if you did you should not make any of them USA specific.

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Pretty comprehensive list and one could come up with more than 10. For me anything dealing with population stabilization and environmental protections have to be addressed first.

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Should the military be allowed to use enhanced interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, to gain information from suspected terrorists?

Should the government increase environmental regulations to prevent climate change?

Do you believe labor unions help or hurt the economy?

Should employers be required to pay men and women the same salary for the same job?

Should health insurers be allowed to deny coverage to individuals who have a pre-existing condition?

Should there be more restrictions on the current process of purchasing a gun?

Should the U.S. build a wall along the southern border?

Should the government support a separation of church and state by removing references to God on money, federal buildings, and national monuments?

lerlo Level 8 Oct 21, 2018

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I know, I wasn't suppose to answer them but I couldn't resist.... that's what happens when I can't sleep.... ???

@Heidi68 my answers are the same

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I have a love-and-hate relationship with politics. One minute, I want to sprint on the campaign trail. And on the minute after that, I want to lock up my neck on the doors of a voting location to protest against that whole electoral gimmick.

Electoral gimmick? Are you referring to the Electoral College? If so, I agree.. it should be dissolved. It's not democratic.

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While I have been rather outspoken about my political opinions on this site, I feel strongly that this should be completely voluntary. This is an agnostic/atheist site and should be about topics related to religion. I don't think it's helpful necessarily to make political orientation a mandatory part of the site.

Aren't the questions asked in one's profile already completely voluntary to answer? I think that's what Admin has in mind.

@ailurophile ok. Whatever. My opinion on this isn't red hot.

Yep, IF we do something, it would be opt-in only

@Admin cool.

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Like others, I believe this should be voluntary. Our unifying principle is our thoughts on religion.

That said, another short political landscape set of questions (beyond Political Compass mentioned below) is the Pew Research Institute 11 questions. If this does go forward, believe you can find about 10 questions in common to all the various ideology landscape surveys.

Not a bad quiz. But it does not represent me at all. It merely frames me within the context of existing political parties as it would do for all participants. Here's the rub. I would prefer a system without political parties at all. Instead, labor unions and guilds would represent people. Sure it is an age old anarchist vision, but what I espouse.

This calls me a liberal democrat. Could be worse lol.

@Bakunin I was focused more on the questions it asks rather than the affilition to any party at the end. The admin was asking for a typical list of questions.

@RPardoe oh.

@Bakunin The only good politician like a political question is a dead one.

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I think adding these questions are a great idea. I think you should keep them generic and base them on ideology because each country uses different labels and that will be confusing. I would ask questions like the following:

Do you think governments should allocate resources for social programs like pensions and social security? Yes,?No? Somewhere in the middle?

Do you think governments should allocate resources for free education from early childhood through college or trade school?Yes? No? Somewhere in the middle?

Do you think governments should have the strongest military in the world? somewhere in the middle? Or no military at all?

Do you support the death penalty? Yes? No? Only in some extreme cases

Do you support recreational marijuana? Yes? No? Only for medicinal?

Do you think governments should allocate resources for free public health care for all? Yes? No? Somewhere in the middle?

Do you think governments should participate in global partnerships like the united nations, the world trade Organizations, NATO and global climate agreements? Yes? No? Somewhere in the middle?

Do you think governments should allocate resourced to help immigrant refugees? Yes? No? Somewhere in the middle

Do you think governments should build border walls and aggressively deport illegal immigrants? Yes? No? Somewhere in the middle

Do you think habitual non violent offenders should receive life sentences? Yes? No? somewhere in the middle?

Are you Pro life? Pro choice? Or somewhere in the middle

Do you support gun ownership? Yes? No? Somewhere in the middle?

That's all I got for now. I can't wait to see the end result of this effort. Thanks!

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I suppose these are political questions but many of them are, to me, questions of morality. Not religion and not politics.

I would want to know things like:

Do you believe in homeopathy?

Do you believe any form of birth control should be restricted, including abortions?

Do you believe any adult should have the right to marry? If not, who should not have that right?

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