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It's obvious how uneducated Americans are because this entire chart should just be a solid red block.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2026
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Critical support to the people who randomly marked Bernie as far right. You’re all honorary Maoists now.
2% of Americans apparently
And they're all on Hexbear lol
I was the guy who said Bernie-Sanders was far-right BTW.
44% not sure for Fetterman is also funny.
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I notice the question asked doesn't specify politician, but the title of the graph does and the rest of the people are.
The fact that 'Not Sure' is so prevalent on here is really telling
Explains a lot that a large swathe of the average voter literally does not know the political leanings of some of the most prominent people in politics
To be fair, I have more respect for people who are not sure about Kamala Harris than the ones who believe she's far left.
Also to be fair, i ate too much five bean chili last night and it has hardened my heart/colon
Funniest takeaway from this whole graph is that nobody but the most brain poisoned weirdos knows who Susan Collins is lmao.
It's stunning how many people don't know other state's senators
Hell, there are people who don't know their own senators
I get that senators and representatives are terrible most of the time, but you should at least know their names so you can insult them properly
now that I know her name I can do a trumpism and call her Lazy Susan Collins (and forget about her immediately because I'm not a Burgerlander)
My rep is Jimmy Panetta literally the son of a CIA ghoul, but commiefornia right?
I've earned the personal ire of several Kennedys
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I don't bother knowing my state senators because I can't afford to use one of those stock tracker things that let you copy their insider trading
there's 100 senators, i'm not wasting 2/3 of my monkeysphere on those ghouls
Valid.
She had that song In the Air Tonight, didn't she?
To be fair, Not Sure could also mean, "idk this asshole claims to be for socialism but thinks Israel is a country."
True, but amongst USAans, that's probably not a significant amount of people
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"Not sure" is at least somewhat honest, everyone else is mostly just responding by party id. Oh, this person is a Dem - so they are left-wing.
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The 4% saying Trump is far-left offers an estimate of how prevalent blue maga is
Joe Biden built his entire 50-year career on being a "don't rock the boat, give your opponent a reach around the aisle" centrist politician. A fact that 92% of usa'ns don't recognize.
It's like the old saying: if someone tells you who they are (and constantly proves it their entire career with a capstone of doing that same thing) they are LYING TO YOU!! MORE SACRIFICES MUST FLOWWWW! I WILL SACRIFICE 1000 COUNTRIES FOR THE MONEY LINE!!
Guessing those people who said Liz Cheney is left had never heard of her until the Harris endorsement
Gotta love that 5-10% that are just contrarian, misguided, uninformed, careless, or picking random numbers.
There's some statistics principle about how, like, 5% of people are just fucking around in every survey and will choose absurd answers for fun. I don't remember what it was called though. Big foot's constant? Moon landing principle? Something like that.
Lizardman constant.
There's also web crawlers and survey farms that can (in)advertantly influence results.
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Would be vastly more interesting to see what.. basically any other nationality than American, would say. Can't imagine a single country population agreeing there's that much leftism there.
Calling anyone here 'far-left' is utterly derisible.
Leftism and leftist can mean pretty much anything in the US. The terms can mean what they are. Or liberals. Or centrists. Or center-right.
For example - PBS New Hours has a "left-right" debate segment. "On the right" is David Brooks. "On the left" is Jonathan Capehart who is center-right. And PBS never lets actual leftists on its show so a great deal of its viewership has no idea what actual leftism is.
Mamdani is less of a commie than Bernie? Also like how Fetterman is the biggest "not sure" (baring Susan Collins but I think most people don't know who she is).
Fetterman is a not sure cause the only thing people have seen of him is a video of him falling into his own piss at the fountain and a photo of him eating a cheeseburger off an airport floor and those can really go either way these days
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theres some kind of lesson in that the persons described by most as "far left" was repeatedly blocked by the democratic party leadership from reaching executive office despite constant diplomacy and reconciliation... but the person described by most as "far right" has been repeatedly celebrated and exalted by the republican party despite never missing an opportunity to wipe his ass on its membership, and has ascended to a position of total dominance of the party.
And that lesson is: America is fascist.
(To put it more precisely, both parties are captured by corporate donors and oligarchs)
All of these people are far right except for maybe Mamdani who is center-right, but increasingly more far right as time passes.
The fascinating part to me is how few Americans describe any politician as being “centrist.” Even broadening it to all three of the center options, no politician hits a majority seeing them as in the center spectrum (Fetterman gets closest at 38%). Illustrates that Americans see the “center” more as an abstract concept than an ideological space people actually occupy.
another day of my crusade against all polling. Idk about yall but if this questionnaire was put in front of me i’d give the most batshit responses guaranteed
They left out Turd Ferguson.
That's a funny name
This chart sort is weird, Kamala should be above Zohran judging by how they match on "far left" but many more people call her "left" lmao
Zohran has a lot more people under "not sure", which is probably weighted differently (or discounted for the ranking)
Give the results a score 1-7, and sort by average, almost certainly.
Newsom far-left 
so basically the chunk of people from pete buttigieg upwards who say right/far right is indicative of how many tankies there are
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You can see the Hexbear voters on the top right of this chart.
They probably have no clue who she is but see woman name and think she must be left wing
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