[gentoo] The Politics of Gentoo

Reading over the history of Gentoo, I realize that while we try to keep politics out of Gentoo, everybody still has a stance of some form.

However, I'd like to gauge as what the average stance of all developers is - without any weight to their standing in the Gentoo community (eg trustees are still only developers).

As a quick poll, could I get any developer and user reading this to please comment on this LiveJournal posting (comments are screened, so they won't be seen), or email me (robbat2@gentoo.org), classifying yourself into one of these groups (example text for some of the perspectives of each group):

1. Radical Right-Wing ("Burn the fags!", "Open source sucks")
2. Moderate Right-Wing
3. Neither left nor right
4. Moderate Left-Wing
5. Radical Left-Wing ("Gay marriage for everyone!", "Down with closed source!")
6. Prefer not to answer ("You keep to your business and I'll keep to mine")

I'll tally the results, and post only the answers here.

I'll state right now that I'd put myself at moderate left-wing, but still politically open-minded.

If you want to state some of your reasonings, or note that you are left-wing on some issue, and right-wing on others, I'd also be very interested in hearing it, esp. the polarized fields of Gay Rights and Open Source Advocacy.

Edit (22 August, 10:42am): I've been asked why I used the stereotypes for the radical sides here, and possibly biased this survey against people selecting the radical options. I know extreme people on both of the radical sides. Maybe it would be better to create two extra options, "Extremist Left/Right Wing", but I think the real size of those groups is to small in comparsion with the others, that it doesn't statistically matter. Sure the extremists make the news, but how much difference do they really make to everything else?

Secondly, I've had two people request a 2D scale, as their opinions differ wildly on the two polarizing issues I've brought up. For Open-Source, but against gay marriage. This is going to make classification difficult, but interesting.