Disclaimer: This is an anonymous poll. You can vote if you want to and share your views below if you like, but nobody pressures you to abandon your secrecy of the ballot.
Warning: Please don’t belittle anybody else’s political views. If this topic degenerates into a fight I’ll take appropriate action immediately. It’s probably best if everybody just describes their own views and only comments those of others if they agree.
Where do you see yourself on the political spectrum?
I’d really like to know how Fairphoners tick.
I based the answers of the poll on the android app “Vote1 - Political Spectrum”, but summarized the 32 political ideologies to 14 options, to keep the poll clear. You can find Wikipedia links to all political views as well as some examples from the European Parliament below(*).
I thought about allowing to choose more than one option, but then I thought that could falsify the result (not that it will be extremely accurate and representative anyway).
(*) The members of the political groups of the European Parliament are not always 100% aligned with one ideology, so some country’s parties would probably fit better to different ideologies.
My choice: Green Social Democracy (slightly leaning towards democratic socialism)
Ever since I was able to vote I have always voted for the Austrian Greens. According to Vote1 I align most with the views of De Leonism and also when I take pre-election quizes I usually get the recommendation to vote for the Communist Party of Austria, but the way I see it most tests and quizes don’t place a lot of importance on e.g. environmental and climate change issues.
I’m also a partial match with the Pirates and other left parties. According to Vote1 I’m very close to Spain’s Unidos Podemos and Sweden’s Miljöpartiet de gröna.
After the Austrian Parliament Elections 2017 where the Greens just missed the 4% obstacle and therefore are no longer represented in our parliament and the two right parties are about to form a coalition to rule the country for 5 years I decided I had to stop being just spectator and will now join the Vienna Greens. To be exact probably the “Grüne Andersrum”, the greens’ lgbtqia group.
@paulakreuzer pretty boring results so far, although I would have been much happier if our elections two months ago ended like this
But what is the difference between Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy?
It’s 88% for Green Social Democratic out of 16 votes at the time I voted. Being the only option in the spectrum mentioning Green, it’s clear as pie this one will stick out.
[Is there a way to hide “spoilers” on this forum? I would like to give people the chance to vote for themselves before me telling what percentages I’ve seen].
I don’t have time for long detailed answers at the moment, but one “food for thought item” just creeped in my mind: Instead of asking “Where do you see yourself on the political spectrum?”, I would like to ask “What is your political spectrum ?” - or you could say "How are the seats allocated in your inner government ?"
I know this would bust a simple poll, but I can see different proportions of all the different political colours in my heart and mind.
Enjoy the weekend
Mark
Of course everyone is free to enter this thread; yet tbh, I don’t see the point in starting a political discussion in this forum. According to my experience discussions like this involve the risk of unnecessary quarrels.
So, I’ll just stand by and watch.
I lean somewhere between green social democracy, social liberalism and anarchism…
I know that is some rathe strange combination…but on some matters I lean very much towards anarchism, where on others I see green as the solution, where again others some liberalism couldn’t do harm in my eyes.
Not going to give much concrete examples, but for example working at Fairphone I would consider as a liberal decision…the government is failing, so let the companies try and change it
Took me about 10 minutes to decide between green social democracy and democratic socialism. Can’t we make a green democratic socialism option? I like to think about a world where we’re all equal and all have plants rights! Nice poll though
I like to think about a world where we’re all equal and all have plants rights! Nice poll though