So how did you get to the percentage figure of 85%???
I'm also curious where you would get a chart depicting Barack Obama as right of center! LOL
I wouldn't call what we have in the US socialism, although I feel the left is wanting to push this country in that direction with Obamacare, over taxing the successful and replacing our safety nets and creating a dependency mentality. The fact we have social programs, does not make our government or being a Libertarian any where near what the democrat socialist party's vision is.
Those social programs are absolutely socialism. Public schools is socialism. Most socialist countries take it a step further and have public colleges too, but we're half way there. What exactly do think socialism is if not massive social programs?
To get that 85% result that I got was by taking their little quiz and answer every question the way a libertarian would. When the results come up at the end you should be in agreement with Gary Johnson or Ron Paul 100% of the time. The next closet candidate will likely be the Green Party candidate, Jil Stein or maybe the Democratic Socialist candidate (I forget his name). They should line up with you around 80-85%. It can vary a little depending on how you answered the questions and if you took the longer quiz or the shorter quiz, but you get the idea.
How on earth do you consider Obama a lefty? I know the talking heads and the brainless bloggers throw around labels like Marxist or Socialists, but what has he done that resembles those things? Obamacare is not a lefty idea. It was the Conservative plan for about a decade. The Heritage Foundation is the one that originally published it in the early nineties. Bob Dole ran on that plan against Clinton. When Mitt Romney did it in Massachusetts, it really wasn't such a strange thing for a Republican to do. Single Payer is the lefty alternative. This why people like Bernie Sanders and Dennis Kucinich had such a hard time with Obamacare to begin with.
Other than Obamacare, how is Obama liberal? Is throwing a bunch of money at the banks liberal? No. A liberal would regulate the hell out them and maybe nationalize one or two. Would a liberal be working to pass free trade agreements with South Korea and other Asians countries? Fuck no! They'd be working to undo Nafta and Cafta. Free trade, though supported by centrists on both sides, originates from the economic philosophy of the right.
Most of what Obama does is neither left nor right. The wars, the increased police state in the name or security, prosecuting whistleblowers. That's Authoritarian. Allowing Monsanto to run the FDA and GE to advise us on energy, to allow Goldman Sachs to run the SEC. That's all crony capitalism.
I suppose he is slightly to the left because he wants to raise taxes on just the wealthy, which would be a little more progressive, but he's only talking 3% and he knows that most wealthy Americans won't pay that rate anyway because they don't receive their incomes through salaries, so it's really just smoke and mirrors to fool us anyway.
