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Comment author: Yvain 26 April 2009 10:27:24PM 5 points [-]

I specifically excluded "not committed" as an option on the political views section, because a lot of rationalists have a tendency to go towards "not committed" to signal how they're not blind followers of a party, when really they have very well defined political views.

I, for example, absolutely refuse to register with a political party, answer "independent" to any questions about my political affiliation, talk a good talk about how both parties are equally crooks, and then proceed to vote for the Democrat nine times out of ten. I would kind of like to force people like me to put "Democrat" on there so that we get more data.

I will change this if enough people agree with Vladimir.

Comment author: Jack 27 April 2009 01:00:39AM 1 point [-]

I agree that there should be no "not committed" option, but asking non-Americans to identify with an American political party seems kind of unhelpful. Do we think think more traditional ideological terms are to vague to be unhelpful?

Maybe: Conservative, Classical Liberal, Welfare State Liberal, Marxist/Post Marxist, etc?