This, just change Hillary to 100 %.
Like, what? I know I haven't paid too close attention to the election this far, but I didn't know I was that far out on what the candidates stood for.
Oh boy. Here, I'll bring you up to speed with some handy dandy charts, and give you an idea of why a lot of people here on Iwaku are going to likely land near Hillary or Jill Stein--depending on whether they're clearly far left leaning, or more moderate.
Also, this goes for anyone curious about where the various politicians stand on the issues--c'mere and learn.
Disclaimer: Hillary and Trump both lie about their policies depending on the crowd they're in. If you were watching the Presidential Debate, you'll see exactly what I mean about both flip flopping and redirecting questions into excuses to attack each other. Ergo, take the following charts with a grain of salt. You can find all the charts
here, compiled by a lovely fellow. Use the issue charts to look at specific issues if you wish, I'll go ahead and get to the point below them.
Iwaku's community tends to lean politically left. This is unsurprising for numerous reasons demographics-related reasoning.
- The LGBT community is openly celebrated and protected here.
- Iwaku has the equivalent of hate speech laws, and openly declares that it does not practice absolute freedom of speech. Here, under community behaviours. Notably, it also tends to prioritize people's feelings as a sincere concern.
- The majority of Iwaku's user base is likely within the age range of 16-26. Younger generations tend to vote left, and older generations tend to vote right.
- Writing tends to attract the imaginative and emotional, and right wing policies tend to be a lot harder on the disenfranchised than left wing policies are--An overabundance empathy plays a role here.
- The Internet as a whole (with a few notable exceptions) tends to hover left wing. It's only been in recent years that the alt right has taken to Internet enclaves to thrive in public spaces.
- Iwaku is pretty blatantly socially liberal. To imply it as socially conservative in any fashion is to live in a world nowhere near reality.
Now, let's see... Socially liberal, LGBT friendly, the site is run by a woman, hate speech laws, majority of the user base is youths, site centered around a hobby that tends to evoke pathos before logos...
It will not surprise me if the majority of people dislike Trump's views. Let's pick out a few gems, shall we?
- No same sex marriage. (Against Iwaku's pro-LGBT stance.)
- Abortion should be illegal (except in cases of incest or rape). (Against Iwaku's pro-choice/left stance.)
- No protection for gender identities in anti-discrimination laws. (Against Iwaku's hate speech codes.)
- Supports the death penalty.
- Deny women front line combat roles. (Against Iwaku's general equitable equality mindset.)
- Ban all muslim immigrants. (Definitely against Iwaku's general equitable equality mindset.)
- No subsidized healthcare for illegal immigrants. (Goes against the naturally empathetic side of Iwaku.)
- Literally just fucking spy on everyone openly, it's cool bruv. (Goes against the privacy-loving nature of the Internet in general.)
- Government should not be involved in healthcare at all. (I, and several others on Iwaku, come from countries where this mindset is outright alien.)
- Stop funding space travel altogether. (RIP NASA. Needless to say, the majority on Iwaku would mourn this.)
Compare and contrast that to Hillary, who on most (if not all) of Trump's stances, represents the opposite--to a moderate degree. She doesn't go
too far left, because she wants to appeal to the moderate vote as well as the democratic-base vote to beat Trump's right wing populism.
As for Gary Johnson and Jill Stein...
Gary Johnson's answers (aside from a couple of anomalies) all fall in line with a small government view of the world. He wants as much individual choice as is possible--and the right wing on Iwaku will tend to fall that way. The majority of the right wing on Iwaku (from what I've observed anyway) tend to be socially liberal and financially conservative--which fits better with a libertarian mindset of "fuck it do what you want" rather than a socially conservative Republican mindset.
Jill Stein is
fucking psychotic Green to the extreme, and I've yet to see a Green party member that wasn't also extraordinarily left wing in their policies and beliefs. They pretty much
all run under the premise that the only thing that can stop environmental damage is sweeping government regulations and programs. People who fall far left--especially those who have a great love for the environment--will unsurprisingly fall into Jill Stein's camp. People who liked Bernie Sanders will also more likely find themselves falling toward Jill Stein rather than Hillary Clinton--but not likely by any huge margin.
tl;dr:
- Trump's a social conservative big business tycoon.
- Hillary's a status quo enforcer on the center-left, rarely straying from there.
- Jill Stein is mid to far left.
- Gary Johnson is mid right financially, socially moderate--sometimes even liberal.
- This election sucks big time and demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that America's democratic system is broken.
- Charts are pretty.
66%INDEPENDENT
48%LIBERTARIAN
44%REPUBLICAN
38%GREEN
35%CONSTITUTION
30%DEMOCRAT
