Describe the likely political views of the previous hypothetical person

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

This next person is your grandfather, isn't it?

Also, you totally destroyed my previous character to be honest.

Yeah, lol. He was actually a giant Trump supporter to the point where he told me that I was being brainwashed by the liberal media because I said that illegals shouldn't be in prison camps. It's surprising to me because he was a very intelligent person but he was kinda racist lmao. He passed away this past June but I was just curious to see what his information would make him.

lol im sorry, was that your wife?

Oh I'm sorry for him. It was just so crystal clear given your previous post about yourself, although I just assumed he were also alive.

Lmao no hahaha it was a fictitious character, just I would have never expected anyone to answer "socially liberal fiscally moderate".

[hyouzel the predictor]

This next person is your grandfather, isn't it?

Also, you totally destroyed my previous character to be honest.

Yeah, lol. He was actually a giant Trump supporter to the point where he told me that I was being brainwashed by the liberal media because I said that illegals shouldn't be in prison camps. It's surprising to me because he was a very intelligent person but he was kinda racist lmao. He passed away this past June but I was just curious to see what his information would make him.

lol im sorry, was that your wife?

Oh I'm sorry for him. It was just so crystal clear given your previous post about yourself, although I just assumed he were also alive.

Lmao no hahaha it was a fictitious character, just I would have never expected anyone to answer "socially liberal fiscally moderate".

That's alright, it wasn't painful and I got to say goodbye and stuff

thats how i think my political compass ass self says axis this axis that

i hate it for me

[Coastal_Elite]

Gender: Female
Race/Ethnicity: White
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Location: Papillion, NE
Hometown: Omaha, NE
Age: 42
Religion: ELCA
Relationship Status: Married with 2 children (teen girl and tween boy)
Education: Master's Degree
Occupation: Mental Health Counselor
Income: $60,000/yr
Other Interests: her kids' soccer games, wine, painting

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

I knew about muh soccer moms and about muh wine moms but I hadn't heard yet of painting moms. Anyway pretty clear NIMBY liberal Democrat.

Next hypothetical person:
Gender - Male
Race - Black
Sexual Orientation - Heterosexual
Age - 87
Location - Queens, NY
Hometown - Waynesboro, GA (left at 8 years old)
Religion - Pentecostal
Relationship status - Widower
Education - Law degree
Occupation - Retired business lawyer
Interesting facts - voted Nixon in 1972 but not in 1960; owns a double-barrelled shotgun

[Coastal_Elite]

I knew about muh soccer moms and about muh wine moms but I hadn't heard yet of painting moms. Anyway pretty clear NIMBY liberal Democrat.

Next hypothetical person:
Gender - Male
Race - Black
Sexual Orientation - Heterosexual
Age - 87
Location - Queens, NY
Hometown - Waynesboro, GA (left at 8 years old)
Religion - Pentecostal
Relationship status - Widower
Education - Law degree
Occupation - Retired business lawyer
Interesting facts - voted Nixon in 1972 but not in 1960; owns a double-barrelled shotgun

Ruben Diaz Sr.-style conservadem

Gender: Female
Race: White
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Age: 82
Location: San Diego, CA
Hometown: Syracuse, NY
Religion: Episcopalian
Relationship Status: Divorced with 1 (deceased) adult son
Education: Master's degree
Occupation: Church vestry, former insurance agent
Other Interests: Mexican food, charity work, traveling the world

[Alcibiades]

Liberal Democrat, with a ‘social gospel’-style outlook on politics.

Gender: Male
Race: White
Sexual Orientation: Closeted gay
Age: 55
Location: The Woodlands, TX
Hometown: Lake Forest, IL
Religion: Agnostic, raised Episcopalian, attends wife’s Baptist church
Relationship status: Married with 4 sons
Education: MBA
Occupation: Vice President at a telecommunications company
Income: $260,000

[Dr. MB]

Republican. Sounds like he's pretty deep in the closet. But I don't think he'd be super right wing and might be open to voting for a Democrat at some point in the future.

Gender: Male
Race: White
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Age: 84
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Hometown: Idaho Falls, Idaho
Religion: Agnostic, raised Mormon
Relationship status: Married, 5 kids and plenty of grandchildren
Education: PhD
Occupation: Retired university professor of chemistry
Income: University pension
Interests: Literature, art, history

[Coastal_Elite]

Gender: Male
Race: White
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Age: 84
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Hometown: Idaho Falls, Idaho
Religion: Agnostic, raised Mormon
Relationship status: Married, 5 kids and plenty of grandchildren
Education: PhD
Occupation: Retired university professor of chemistry
Income: University pension
Interests: Literature, art, history

Warren-esque progressive.

Gender: Female
Race: White
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Age: 39
Location: Syracuse, NY
Hometown: Syracuse, NY
Religion: Buddhist
Relationship status: Married with 1 teenage daughter
Education: Bachelor's degree
Occupation: Housewife
Income: No income
Interests: NA meetings, dogs/cats, reality TV

[Hope For A New Era]

Gender: Female
Race: White
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Age: 39
Location: Syracuse, NY
Hometown: Syracuse, NY
Religion: Buddhist
Relationship status: Married with 1 teenage daughter
Education: Bachelor's degree
Occupation: Housewife
Income: No income
Interests: NA meetings, dogs/cats, reality TV

Resistance wine mom.


Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 50
Hometown: Kirksville, MO
Current location: Liberty, MO
Religion: None
Relationship status: Married, no children
Education: Bachelor's degree
Occupation: High school teacher
Interests: history + politics, cycling


Also, sorry for the late response, but:

I would guess moderate left economically and more right wing socially. Turned off by Trump due to his behavior, not necessarily his policy.

I was describing my cousin. You got her pretty much exactly right.

[Hassan 2022]

Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White
Age: 67
Hometown: Ashburnham, MA
Current Location: Dayton, ME
Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
Religion: Lutheran
Relationship status: Previously married, 2 older kids
Education: College for three years, dropped out to work on a farm in ME
Occupation: Farmer
Income: $57,000/yr
Interests: Fishing, traveling to Nova Scotia, baking Finnish bread

[aaroncd107]

Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 50
Hometown: Kirksville, MO
Current location: Liberty, MO
Religion: None
Relationship status: Married, no children
Education: Bachelor's degree
Occupation: High school teacher
Interests: history + politics, cycling

Some kind of lib-left person. Probably really liked Pete in 2019 but voted for Bernie by the MO primary. Probably rants to his students about current events without actually teaching class, lol

Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 54
Hometown: Akron, OH
Current location: Huntersville, NC
Religion: Unitarian Universalist
Relationship status: Divorced
Education: PhD
Occupation: Industrial analytical psych
Interests: walking, Netflix comedy specials, board games

[Jay 🏳️‍⚧️]

Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 54
Hometown: Akron, OH
Current location: Huntersville, NC
Religion: Unitarian Universalist
Relationship status: Divorced
Education: PhD
Occupation: Industrial analytical psych
Interests: walking, Netflix comedy specials, board games

Former Republican turned Democrat under the Obama years, now a reliable Democratic voter.

Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 57
Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
Current location: Goldsboro, NC
Religion: Southern Baptist
Relationship status: Widow
Education: High School
Occupation: Human Resources
Interests: Walking, Playing Words With Friends

[It’s so Joever]

A now-Trumpublican who had some reservations back in 2016 but is 100% on the Trump train this year.
Probably was more liberal in her younger years and may have voted Democrat in the past.
My Karen senses are tingling.


Gender: Female
Age: 74
Race: Asian
Hometown: Tainan, Taiwan
Location: Chesterfield, VA
Religion: Southern Baptist (Very devout)
Relationship status: Married
Education: High School
Income: 30,000$/yr
Occupation: Retired (Formerly a business owner)
Interests: Cooking, Gardening, Crab fishing, Going to yard sales, traveling.

[ملكة كرينجيتوك]

Gender: Male
Age: Early-30s
Hometown: Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire
Current location: Nashville, TN
Race/ethnicity: Black/Francophone West African
Religion: Raised Muslim
Relationship status: Single
Occupation: Attending physician
Education: MD + residency, attended community college at some point
Other: Really likes socks

Age: Late 30s to Early 40s
Gender: Male
Sexual orientation: Straight
Relationship Status: Married to a woman who outearns him, has 2 daughters
Occupation: Middle school teacher
Education: Masters in Education, BA before that
Hometown: Somewhere in North Carolina
Current Location: Chicago, IL

Lets Talk Politics: How Different Sides Approach the Same Issues | Co-authored by Habib Fanny and Matthew Bates




Habib Fanny: How do you explain voting for Biden in one sentence?

The only other viable choice is Trump, an undignified, unstable, unworthy, unfit buffoon, unmoored from any semblance of decency, corrosive to the rule of law, and whose only saving grace is that he is too indolent and incompetent to be as malevolent as he would like to be.

Matthew Bates: What are the main reasons parents decide to send their children to private school instead of public school?

Every few years, the Catholic schools around here (Chicago) ask parents this very question… why did they choose Catholic school? These are their answers, in order of frequency:

1. Safety. This is, by far, the #1 reason people abandon the public school system. It’s just not safe for their children.
2. Smaller class sizes/more individualized student attention.
3. More family-friendly atmosphere/better “community” feel to the school.
4. No “teaching to the test” like at public schools.
5. Religion/the religious part of the curriculum. Notable that this is a distant fifth place reason for choosing Catholic schools.
6. Proximity to their home or job.

Not on that list, but another reason I know some parents have brought their children to Catholic school:
* To avoid having their child labelled as “special education” by the public schools.

And, if the survey were done this year, I’m positive a popular reason would be:
* The Catholic schools are actually open for in-person learning, while the public schools are all online.

[ملكة كرينجيتوك]

Gender: Female
Age: 74
Race: Asian
Hometown: Tainan, Taiwan
Location: Chesterfield, VA
Religion: Southern Baptist (Very devout)
Relationship status: Married
Education: High School
Income: 30,000$/yr
Occupation: Retired (Formerly a business owner)
Interests: Cooking, Gardening, Crab fishing, Going to yard sales, traveling.

Long-time Republican, possibly turned Independent. May have voted for Obama and/or Hillary, depends on her level of political engagement, when she came to the US, and the nature of her interactions with her family, friends, and neighbors. Would be a socially conservative DPP voter in Taiwan.


Gender: Male
Age: 30s
Race/Ethnicity: Latino/Dominican
Hometown: Santo Domingo, DR but moved to New Jersey as a teenager
Location: Tigard, OR
Religion: Roman Catholic
Relationship status: Married with school-age kids
Education: Associate Degree
Income: $80,000/yr
Occupation: Manufacturing management
Other: Has flirted with veganism and plant-centered diets

[KaiserDave]

Has a wide range of specific and unique political views, usually votes for specific Democrats that he likes.




Gender: Male
Age: 61
Race/Ethnicity: White
Hometown: Sullivan County TN
Location: Nashville TN
Religion: Mainline Protestant
Relationship status: Married with college aged kids
Education: Bachelor's Degree (Engineering)
Income: $70,000/yr
Occupation: Engineer
Other: Runs competitively, was better at it when he was younger

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Independent. Usually votes Democratic. Wishes more Democrats were like Jim Cooper.



Next person with an Italian twist:
Gender - Female
Age - 22
Sexual Orientation - Heterosexual
Hometown - Lecco, Italy
Location - Bergamo, Italy
Religion - Very devout Catholic
Relationship status - Married (currently pregnant for the first time)
Education - Low
Occupation - Works in a textile mill
Other - Has been a victim of stalking and attempted rape

P.S. Not totally my invention. Smart people will know who she is supposed to be.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Lucia from The Betrothed would vote for whoever the most viable non-Lega candidate was because The Betrothed is a pro-Italian unification text.

I'll do one with a similar premise.

Gender: Female
Age: 30
Sexual Orientation: Not sure herself, probably either asexual or lesbian
Hometown: Osaka, Japan
Location: Ashiya, Japan
Religion: Nonreligious
Relationship status: """Old maid"""
Education: Very traditional arts and humanities education but no university
Occupation: Lives on an inheritance
Other: Lives with an almost debilitating anxiety disorder. For all practical purposes a ward of her older sister's family.

[Gracile]

No idea what fictional work this is supposed to be referencing but left-leaning (especially on cultural issues), though maybe not heavily politically active.

Gender: Male
Age: 29
Sexual Orientation: Gay
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hometown: Bergenfield, New Jersey / Riehen, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Current Location: Evanston, Illinois
Race: White
Ethnicity: Swiss-German (father - Swiss national); Italian, Irish, German (mother - US national)
Religion: Atheist (raised Swiss Reformed)
Occupation: Research Psychologist at university
Other interests: Modern art, creative writing, music, sociology, environmental issues (restoring lakefront and clean water), languages

[Hassan 2022]

Center-left Democrat. Voted for Bernie in the 2016 primary and wrote in Warren in 2020 after she suspended her campaign.

Gender: Female
Age: 70
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Hometown: Stanstead, QC
Current location: Guildhall, VT
Race: White
Ethnicity: French-Canadian/Italian
Religion: Agnostic (grew up Catholic)
Occupation: Maple syrup producer
Interests: Visiting extended family in Quebec, ice fishing

[KaiserDave]

Vermont people

Due to her Canadian roots she is instinctually left leaning, and votes for the Democratic presidential candidate very year. However, she votes for Scott every time he's on the ballot because of local issues that are very important for her business. Likes Molly Gray but will almost certainly vote for Milne.


Gender: Male
Age: 43
Sexual Orientation: Gay
Hometown: Tomahawk Wisconsin
Current location: Wausau Wisconsin
Race: White
Ethnicity: White, vaguely Germanic roots
Religion: Lapsed Catholic
Occupation: Truck driver
Interests: Brewers baseball, artisanal cooking, shooting

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

No idea what fictional work this is supposed to be referencing but left-leaning (especially on cultural issues), though maybe not heavily politically active.

It's Yukiko Makioka from The Makioka Sisters and in the actual book she is literally a fascist, although since it's set in Japan between 1936 and 1941 so is almost everybody else. Personally, I see her as a "there is no one else " LDP voter if she were a real person alive today. But I love her and the book she comes from anyway.

*skip*

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Lucia from The Betrothed would vote for whoever the most viable non-Lega candidate was because The Betrothed is a pro-Italian unification text.

Congrats!

"Smart people" indeed. If it wasn't already clear (see: my signature), I Promessi Sposi is probably my favourite book.

(skip)

[Hope For A New Era]

Gender: Male
Age: 43
Sexual Orientation: Gay
Hometown: Tomahawk Wisconsin
Current location: Wausau Wisconsin
Race: White
Ethnicity: White, vaguely Germanic roots
Religion: Lapsed Catholic
Occupation: Truck driver
Interests: Brewers baseball, artisanal cooking, shooting

Obama-Trump-Biden voter. Economic populist. Socially tolerant, but with a strong dislike of "PC culture."

Next person:

Gender: Female
Age: 38
Race: White
Religion: Catholic, not particularly observant
Hometown: Maringá, Paraná, Brazil
Current Location: Topeka, KS
Relationship status: Married, no children
Education: High school (in Brazil)
Occupation: Runs a small business
Other notes: Moved to the US in 2004.

[Alcibiades]

Romney-Clinton-Biden voter (would have voted for Bush and Obama ‘08 had she been a citizen). Is pretty repelled by the Trump-era Republican party, particularly its rhetoric surrounding immigration from Latin America, but innately economically conservative. She will be voting Democratic up and down the ballot in 2020.

Gender: Female
Age: 50
Sexuality: Straight
Ethnicity: White, half-Danish
Hometown: Kidlingon, Oxfordshire
Current location: Wimbledon, London
Relationship status: Married, two children
Education: PhD
Occupation: University lecturer in economics