poll on your political ideology

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49. Whoa! You've ignored about 50% of the members here.

I guess I could have answered "Other" because I didn't see Democratic Socialist, so I decided to play along. I wasn't sure if I was a Liberal or a Progressive until I read an article by David Sirota. He says:

Let's be clear - most progressives are also liberals, and liberal goals in better funding America's social safety net are noble and critical. It's the other direction that's the problem. Many of today's liberals are not fully comfortable with progressivism as defined in these terms. Many of today's Democratic politicians, for instance, are simply not comfortable taking a more confrontational posture towards large economic institutions (many of whom fund their campaigns) - institutions that regularly take a confrontational posture towards America's middle-class.

So I went with Progressive, whom Sirota defines thusly:

A "progressive" are those who focus on using government power to make large institutions play by a set of rules.

So why do I say you're ignoring about 50% of the members here?

You're not capturing the Obama-Clintonian Third Way Democrats. There is so much animosity at DU simply because those left of the Third Way are at odds with the Third Way.

As a result, this poll is like asking a men to vote when half of the population is made up of women.

FAIL