an interesting quiz

[kamikat]

http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html

Just thought I'd share this quiz. Despite my leftist leanings, I came out a Libertarian. Since this is hosted by a Libertarian group, I'm wondering how many people come out with Libertarian results.

kamikat

 

[Brad Bowers]

Hmm, I came out as a Centrist, which is the way I've described myself over the past few years. I was raised a hardcore Republican, but my views have been heading to the center for quite a while. I guess the quiz works.

Brad

 

[K.D. Lightner]

I came out as a left liberal, close to centrist.

That is about the correct profile for me. Just a little left of center.

karol

 

[Renderking Fisk]

Since this is hosted by a Libertarian group, I'm wondering how many people come out with Libertarian results.

You think?

How People Have Scored
Centrist 30.24 %
Right (Conservative) 7.62 %
Libertarian 34.80 %
Left (Liberal) 18.68 %
Statist (Big Government) 8.67 %

I also came out as a libertarian. I'm neither Left or Right... I'm ABOVE!

 

[Matt Deckard]

Liberal according tho the short quiz

 

[BD Jones]

I came out CONSERVATIVE, and proud of it. Here is my nice little graph. I like how it tells you what your personal and economic issues scores are. Since I scored a 30% on my personal issues, does that mean I failed that part of the "quiz"?

 

[SappySwami]

Came out liberal. Thing is, it's fairly limited a quiz to lable a person with.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

I find that one very interesting. You can also compare with historical figures! I'm further left than Gandhi! :cool2:

 

[Andykev]

Hey I am a centrist

What the hell it this BS survey/test? Only asks some limited questions.



CENTRISTS espouse a "middle ground" regarding government

control of the economy and personal behavior. Depending on

the issue, they sometimes favor government intervention

and sometimes support individual freedom of choice.

Centrists pride themselves on keeping an open mind,

tend to oppose "political extremes," and emphasize what

they describe as "practical" solutions to problems.



The RED DOT on the Chart shows where you fit on the political map.

 

[Mycroft]

I agree it is not that accurate, because the only thing that I agrre with is that I take different stances per issue.

 

[Brad A. Cox]

I scored as a centrist. :rage:

 

[jamespowers]

Geez, I came out a conservative libertarian. I think they need to make up their mind. I have.
I was way out of the centrist box though. :cheers1:

Regards to all,

J

 

[SappySwami]

Libertarian is actually just social issues, so a conservative libertarian would be someone who is socially liberal, fiscally conservative.

What I find interesting about these tests is that it makes people think about what they believe in (though usually people take these and don't evaluate why they believe something, so the test is almost an overview of what ones assumptions and reactions are, more than anything.) I think many people who think they are on one side of the political spectrum or the other, are just going on what they are called based on their opinions, or what the media says someone who believes something is.

 

[jamespowers]

Libertarian is actually just social issues, so a conservative libertarian would be someone who is socially liberal, fiscally conservative.

Actually that does not fit me. Socially liberal I am not. I didn't say legalize all drugs and open the borders. Fiscally conservative YES.

Regards to all,

J

 

[SappySwami]

Take the http://www.politicalcompass.org one! It's about three pages, but doesn't take long, and rather in depth. I think it will have a more accurate description for you.

 

[jamespowers]

Well, ok, that was much more acurate. Interesting. I am in the exact same place as Margaret Thatcher. That makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that site calling Milton Friedman in the neo-liberal "anarchism" camp. He would really object to that. However I would agree with them that Hitler and Stalin had more in common than they didn't. Hitler was a socialist and Stalin a communist. There is not way that Hitler could have been called right wing. He and Stalin are left wingers it just depends how much further left one is over the other.

Regards to all,

J

 

[SappySwami]

Actually, Hitler was a Fascist. It is another system entirely from Capitalism (a transitional step toward free market) and socialism (a communal economic system that, unlike communism, usually allows people to own their own land.)

 

[jamespowers]

Hitler was not a true Fascist (or better put authoratarian) as Mussolini was. Hitler headed a party called the National Socialist Party after all. That is what Nazi is an acronym for. Hitler believed in socialist economics. Stalin and he differed only on some slight social issues. He was a leftist not a right winger. Check his positions on the issues. The man was a gun ownership hating vegetarian for goodness sake!

Regards to all,

J

 

[SappySwami]

You got me there, hehe. Socialism can never work without democracy, similar to communism. We might disagree that it even works then, but I'm sure there aren't any fans of totalitarian socialism here, and that's really what we were fighting in WWII.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

I came out as a libertarian.

That is not too surprising but I tend to disagree with actual libertarians over the role of private property.

Most actual libertarians, upon the basis of John Locke's "Life, Liberty, and Property," believe that vesting a man in his property is the root of liberty. (Think of Emerson's village smithy, standing stall under the spreading chestnut tree, looking everyone in the eye, for he owed not a penny to any man.) Property, to a Lockean, or to a libertarian, means that people can be secure in the means to their livelihood, which is the root condition for effective freedom.

For complex reasons, while I think the Lockean formula made good sense back in the 18th and early 19th centuries, times have changes, so that property rights in practise actually mean monopoly capital rights. (I oversimplify, but that's the gist of it.) People are in effect stripped of their property rights hence not actually free. (Employees who are forced to take drug tests illustrate this.)

Most liberals proceed from this logic to conclude that -instead of business - government should assert itself, either regulating property or actually socializing things. I, however, disagree with this for many reasons, by no means the least that the United States federal government, in a globalizing worlid, tends to be too big to address small issues yet too small to address big ones.

Hence, I think we need to consider an alternative means - other than property - to secure people in the means of their livelihood. A different means to achieve that ends. What that different means might be - I must confess - I am pretty vague on right now. That explains why I am an obscure fellow posting notes on the fedora lounge rather than someone with his face on the cover of Time Magazine or chief partner of a Wall St. law firm. .

 

[Bogie1943]

Good Stuff...

Wonderful, it read me well, a conservative I am...and proud!