Re: Reform UK's chronicles
Got to love self-affirming circular logic…
Sephiroth - "anything I say is "leftie" is "leftie", is a "known entity", so no more definition is required, whilst "right" is somewhat fuzzy, as that gives me wiggle room if I’m called out on anything, and I can always use the old "look, they don’t agree with my definition, so they must be calling us fascists to all intents and purposes (even though they haven’t, the old ad-hominem dog-whistle is always useful…)
Some snippets from YouGov surveys when we last discussed "leftie" vs "rightie" definitions (just under two years ago), when you declined to actually give a definition of "leftie"…
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YouGov shows that the left-wing to right-wing political spectrum is actually much more complex than previously thought when it comes to public opinion
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Framing politics in terms of left-wing and right-wing might be simple for politicians, and comforting to activists, but it seems that these terms just aren’t that useful for talking about - or indeed to - the general public.
A new YouGov study reveals that the political wing spectrum is poorly understood and also that huge numbers of people don’t hold consistent left- and right-wing outlooks.
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Of more than 100 political views we put to people, none were identified as being specifically left-wing or right-wing by more than 53% of people. That is to say, even for the very most stereotypically left- and right-wing policies, half of the population do not identify them as such.
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In short, very few are simply "leftie" or "rightie", but instead, have a range of views on a number of different political subjects, and believing that there is a simplistic dichotomy between types of voters based solely because "you say so" is an interesting viewpoint… |
