Based on the 538 Six Wings of the Democratic Party thing - a poll

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-six-wings-of-the-democratic-party/?ex_cid=story-twitter

Interested about the relative population here at DU - Given that none of us care much for labels, I suspect...which category do you best fit (trying to get a sense of how the DU community spreads out across these categories...and not posted for mind-changing or fighting!)

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	Super Progressive - eg Ocasio-Cortez
	4 (29%)
	Very Progressive - eg Merkley
	3 (21%)
	Progressive New Guard - eg Beto
	3 (21%)
	Progressive Old Guard - eg Biden
	1 (7%)
	Moderates - eg Lamb
	0 (0%)
	Conservative Democrats - eg Manchin
	0 (0%)
	I hate labels
	2 (14%)
	but I love chocolate layer cake
	1 (7%)
	other
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[DemocratSinceBirth]

1. Labels belong on food and drugs and not people.

If gender is fluid so is ideology.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. I think that depends - I am 63 and have always been what I consider super progressive

but I do get your point - I don't like people making assumptions about my beliefs! Same thing with my Myers Briggs - it really hasn't budged, and I answer the questions the same way, for the last many decades since taking it.

thanks though - I appreciate your comment, and understand.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. If you put a gun to my head I would say I am a liberal democrat and a Liberal Democrat.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. (I hate guns!)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. If I'm looking for inspiration I look to FDR and JFK and RFK.

Among the living I look to Barack Obama.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. we are very much aligned.

[marylandblue]

17. "gender fluid" is also a label, as is "unlabeled."

People will label you whether you like it or not, so you might as well pick one you like

[SFnomad]

2. Not only do I hate these labels, this is one of the reasons why we're in the position we're in today

It's this continued purity politics that will continue to play into the Republicans hands. Why do we want to continue destroying ourselves from the inside?

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. Like I said - it was a poll I posted out of curiosity - but all points - and yours, very much so-

are extremely valid and I agree.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

7. I'm a member of Democratic Socialists of America so I'm with AOC

I love how AOC is helping shape the Overton Window so that hopefully Medicare for All and the Green New Deal are considered as American as apple pie one day.

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. well put. Paradigm shifting is never going to be fast and easy, but it has to begin

some time, some how.

[Gothmog]

11. I really like Nate's analysis in this article

[crazycatlady]

12. I'm a combination

For a district like NY-14 I am comfortable with a super progressive (AOC) in there. However, should she run for Joe Manchin's seat, she'd get her ass kicked. I'd rather have Joe Manchin than a teabagger in that seat.

For president, I don't think this country would elect a super progressive. I'd rather have a Democrat, any Democrat, who can win than a 2nd Trump term.

[OhZone]

13. In a lot of ways I'm super progressive - but -

I think you have to move there in small steps.

So I chose old school progressive.

Huge leaps won't win in the general, imho.

But mostly I like chocolate cake.


Also - I like all the Dem candidate so far over any Con or Independent.

[brooklynite]

14. Why isn't coconut cake an option?

[Sherman A1]

15. I believe that is a very valid question

although I am not a fan of coconut.

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. Indeed...apologies. and lemon, and red velvet

[marylandblue]

18. DNC rules prohibit nuts from running in the primary

and the rules committee did not know that coconuts are not nuts.

[NRaleighLiberal]

19. Nice spread of stances shown so far. DU big tent!