- I saw the tattoo on your wrist, what is that?
- This is Lynda Benglis, she's a feminist.
- Conservatives and libertarians.
We don't believe feminism is needed.
- (laughs)
- So just based on that I'll say socialist.
(bouncy music)
- [Host] Hello.
- What's going on?
- [Host] Will you state your name
and your political affiliation?
- My name is Topher.
I just recently started identifying as a conservative.
Before that I just had the same political ideologies.
Just never put a name to it.
- My name is Elise.
Politically, I identify as fairly liberal, left wing.
- [Host] Today you're gonna match
political identity to strangers.
- All right.
- [Host] We sent you a list of the political identities
you have to pick from, right?
- Yes sir, anarchist, moderate.
- Libertarian, a conservative and a socialist.
Truthfully. I feel like the moderate
is the most hard for me to imagine.
Like who are these undecided swing voters, centrists people?
- Is anybody even really moderate, like for real.
Look guys, look, okay?
You can have a little bit, this little bit of that.
You know, everyone can be friends.
But I really have no idea what a moderate looks like.
- [Host] How do you feel about conservatives?
'Cause there's one on the line.
- Right now with our current political climate
I kind of feel like there's like a lot of
willing ignorance in being conservative.
Statistically probably going to be white.
- [Host] What kind of person is a socialist.
- A socialist, anybody that loves AOC?
- [Host] Is there a look to that kind of person?
- Just not your normal looking person I believe, sometimes.
- [Host] (laughs) I don't know what normal is.
Don't ask me what normal is. - [Host] (continues laughing)
I just mean they have like...
You just tell that they are very, just anti-normal.
- [Host] You're ready to lean
into some stereotypes - Lets do it.
- and make judgements about people?
- Sure (laughs).
- [Host] First stranger, please come in.
- Hi, so what does it say on your t-shirt?
Can I get the rest of it?
- (mumbles) - A woman's place
is in the house and the senate.
- Yeah.
- Okay, that was about to be a big factor
one way or the other.
But if it was just in the house full stop,
I would be like, - (laughs)
- that's the conservative right there.
- Well, it couldn't be an anarchist
'cause they don't care about the system.
They wanna destroy it.
I see an American flag somewhere over there.
- You should know that book cover.
- Do you think America's the greatest country in the world?
- Yes.
- I think you are a conservative feminist.
- Imma go with conservative.
- [Host] All right, here's our next person.
- Hi, I'm Mabel.
I use they/them pronouns.
- What's up Mabel, Topher, just Topher.
I would have to go with anarchist.
- Why would you think that?
- You use they and them, so
You just against everything normal,
I feel like-- (woman laughs)
- Topher what's normal to you?
- Of course, I believe in two genders.
If I see a female I'd be like, that's a she.
And if there's a he and imma say he.
- You have a sharp lens and understanding
about gender issues.
I'm feeling pretty good about labeling you as the socialist.
- Totally.
- My name is River and I'm about
to have my political affiliation guessed.
- Nice, okay, okay.
The button up, clean cut.
- Clean cut, a little preppy.
What kind of shoes are you wearing?
- I'm not wearing shoes because I'm inside the house
and I'd like to keep the inside of my house clean.
- Spoken like a true moderate.
- Imma actually go with moderate.
- Sure thing.
- I'm Becca.
- Hi, Becca, nice to meet you.
- I don't see any crazy hairstyle and no makeup.
Little though, not much.
- A little.
A little - Little
Yeah, all right, a little makeup.
Man this is tough.
- Are you religious Becca?
- I definitely identify as Catholic.
- When do you believe life begins?
- For me personally I think it begins at conception.
- You do.
- I saw the tattoo on your wrist, what is that?
- Lynda Benglis, she's a feminist.
- Conservatives and libertarians,
we don't believe feminism is needed.
Feminists tend to wear less makeup too.
- (laughs) It's just one of those things.
- I have seen so many feminists
wearing faces full of makeup.
- (laughs) So just based on that I'd say socialist.
- What happens after you die?
- I have no idea.
- You're more focused on like here on earth
and not like getting it to heaven.
- Yes, I don't affiliate with
the Roman Catholic Church anymore.
What I turn to the most is the corporal works
of mercy and the spiritual works of mercy.
- Do they say anything about how to respond to authority?
- I have my own beliefs about how to respond to authority.
- Okay, I think that you are the anarchist.
You've found a way to keep your religious
and moral framework and your politics separate.
- Okay.
- The Catholic anarchist.
- Hi, I'm Carly, nice to meet you.
- Overalls, is that overalls you're wearing?
- Camo cloth overalls.
- Camo baby.
Okay, okay, - (laughs)
- A little sense of Americanism there.
- How do you think you would respond in a zombie apocalypse?
I would kick major ass.
- I think you are the libertarian.
I think the libertarian would be like,
I'm gonna get a gun and get in there and kick ass.
- Big house, so that means you believe in capitalism.
All right, okay, okay.
- (laughs)
Imma go with libertarian?
(suspenseful music)
- [Host] All right, with a raise of hands,
who did Topher guess correctly?
- (cheering) Majority, majority, there we go.
- Just one (laughs).
Yeah, I thought that might be the case.
- So Elise you got me wrong.
So what do you think I am now?
- The libertarian?
- That would be correct.
- I have this stereotype that libertarians
kinda only care about themselves.
Don't wanna like invest money in social programs
to help poor people.
What would you say to people like me?
- Yeah, I think the libertarian idea
is definitely based in capitalism
but I think capitalism can work out really well
if we let it run its course.
I truly believe that we don't need the government
telling us what to do.
- Like not wearing masks, right?
I could just walk outside, you know
and not have to be told to wear my mask.
- I don't think it should be
a government position to say it.
- Cool.
- I don't know if we really have like
a really viable like libertarian party.
At least not ones who are like
running candidates for president.
- No, we are.
- Okay. - We are, we have a candidate.
Her name is Jo Jorgensen.
- So are you for Jo Jorgensen instead then?
- Yeah, yeah, definitely.
- Okay.
- And so you don't think that like
this very important election
you're throwing your vote away on a third party candidate?
- I don't, I think it's our duty to vote
for somebody who we think would make the best president.
This is actually the first presidential election
that I'm old enough to vote so,
I'm excited. - Congratulations.
- You guessed right, I'm a socialist.
- You gave me a hard time and your poker face
was just like, O my God, - (laughs)
- I feel like I messed up.
So Becca, what makes you socialist?
- So it actually comes from my Catholicism,
feed the hungry, give drink to thirsty,
visit the sick and imprisoned.
I mean, it's really like a socialist ideal, right?
Like taking care of other people.
- I have to ask if being Catholic means
that you're pro-life, policy wise, if you think--
- Policy wise I am pro-choice.
I can't personally figure out where life begins
if it's not at conception
but I'm not gonna impede other people's access
to needed medical care.
- So you got me right, I am a moderate.
- And why are you a moderate, I guess.
- Moderates are more interested in just making good policy
instead of trying to shift the scales
one way or another, left or right.
- Does that mean that you like may vote Democrat
and may vote Republican in any given election?
- I do more affiliate with the democratic party
but there are places where people should be compromising
a lot more and see very simple solutions and they're not
because there's so much partisan bickering.
- Congrats, yeah, I'm the anarchist.
- What is the anarchist?
- We're looking to abolish government
and systems of capitalism.
- So violence is completely okay
as long as it's an end for that goal, right?
- I'm not gonna specifically say where I stand
on that on the internet.
Have you been confronted a lot at rallies?
- Yes, most recently we was at the
Unsilent Majority March on DC.
We had a couple of Black Lives Matter supporters come up
and we all got into altercation.
- But at least the anarchist I know
are some of the kindest people that I've ever met.
So anarchy is really about like love and just caring
for everyone and wanting to all share power.
- Okay.
- So I guess that you were the libertarian.
- Yes.
- But now I think you're probably the conservative.
- My fellow conservative (laughing).
- What's popping, like I said
I was looking at everything I said,
okay, this person, yeah, they don't mind making money.
- What does it mean to you when you say
that you're conservative?
- I believe, you know, anything that you get in life
is something that you work for.
Everything I had in my life, you know,
the things you see, the nice things I have
is 'cause I worked for it and I made it happen for myself
when I had the odds against me.
- Interesting, sounds like you have
a lot of ideological overlap with libertarianism.
So I feel that - Yeah Imma say--
- it's good about my choice.
- Yes.
- Well, thanks for sharing.
- Cool, yeah (chuckles) thank you.
- (sighs)
- [Host] How was this?
- Super interesting, definitely hard.
I think every one of you had something
about you that like threw me off.
- [Host] Would you say that the country
is more polarized now than it has been?
- Polarized, yeah in a long time
like on a daily I get nasty messages,
racial slurs thrown at me from black and white liberals
and people alike so it's tough.
- [Host] Topher, thank you very much for coming on.
- Thank you everybody for sharing your lives with me today.
- Thank you. - (mumbles)
- Thanks.
- Keep being conservative.
- For sure.
- Wear your mask.
(all laugh)