Political Affiliations?

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I have noticed those who are autistic tend to be more moderate than neurotypicals (I would assume this is due to less emotional/irrational thinking). Personally, I am a centrist, leaning liberal socially and conservative economically. My own observations may be skewed as I am quite young and have not met a large number of people with the same diagnosis (Aspergers). What are your own political opinions? I am curious to see if my experience is aligned with yours.

There is a wide range of political opinion here. Very similar to that found within the "mainstream" population.

It's impossible to generalize about how "Aspies" view politics.

Anarchist!

This is wrong forum if you want moderate.

I'm moderate.....I don't have extreme opinions.

I have no political affiliations.

I'm a registered Independent.

I’m my own affiliation. Someday I’m going to take over the world.

I am from the rabid EXTREME middle of the road.

So extreme that I have joined a cell of Gerald Ford terrorists!

Now that’s extreme!

Same here!

There are a lot of left-wingers here.
Many more than I would have imagined when I first joined WP in 2013.
It seems most here who identify as embracing liberal politics are affected by poverty.
I have suggested recently that if those people didn't have financial problems, they too would be leaning more to a centralist political POV.
None commented on my hypothesis.

To make my political position clear:
While I am obviously much more conservative, I am non-partisan, meaning I am an individualist like you.
I watch political commentary by both sides of the political divide and engage my critical thinking skills to sort what is reasonable and what is BS.

In theory, based on what I have discovered many years ago via Tony Attwood predominately, those on the autistic spectrum tend to be more rational in their thinking despite our emotional turmoil. We generally have a higher than average intellectual quotient while our EQ, Emotional Quotient tends to be below average.
Just the nature of the beast.
What can you do? <shrug>

My pet hates:
-Sanctimony.
-Self-righteousness.
-Virtue-signalling.
-Emotionalism.
Hence, my lack of affinity with liberal politics in general.

Pax.

Last edited by Pepe on 06 Jun 2019, 11:06 pm, edited 2 times in total.

I've got your six, mate.
I'll protect you from those leftie extremistis.

I consider myself center-right. I think WP has a wide spectrum of political opinions and that has caused everyone to conclude that everyone else is against them. We have a few hard right posters. Some fairly right posters. A few center-right posters. The Gerald Ford extremists (I still want an invite to your extreme middle hangouts, but maybe I'm too right for you). A few center-left posters. Some fairly left posters. And lastly a few hard left posters.

Autism apparently has no predictive power for political leanings.

I'm closest to being a Classical Liberal than anything else.

If you don't understand what that is, try reading Liberalism by Ludwig von Mises. You can buy a copy, download a copy, or read it on-line here: https://mises.org/library/liberalism-classical-tradition.

I am not a centrist.

But I need to not get into online political arguments, so I'll leave it there.