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Find your real political position on the political map.
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matthews_world



Joined: 15 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Centrist leaning toward Liberterian.

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 60%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 70%.


10 questions isn't enough.
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rockstarsmooth



Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Location: anyang, baybee!

PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ACCORDING TO YOUR ANSWERS,

The political description that
fits you best is...

.

LIBERAL
LIBERTARIAN


LIBERALS usually embrace freedom of choice in personal

matters, but tend to support significant government control of the

economy. They generally support a government-funded "safety net"
to help the disadvantaged, and advocate strict regulation

of business. Liberals tend to favor environmental regulations,

defend civil liberties and free expression, support government action

to promote equality, and tolerate diverse lifestyles.

LIBERTARIANS support maximum liberty in both personal

and economic matters. They advocate a much smaller government;

one that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion

and violence. Libertarians tend to embrace individual

responsibility, oppose government bureaucracy and taxes,

promote private charity, tolerate diverse lifestyles, support the

free market, and defend civil liberties.

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



Your PERSONAL issues Score is 100%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 50%.

fair enough. but i think that the quiz was too short.
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Pligganease



Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...

PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a Centrist.

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 60%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 40%.
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Rteacher



Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a pure STATIST - a perfect double 0

On the chart, I'm right at "home plate"...

(Liberty for materialists is sheer illusion.)
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ontheway



Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This quiz is completely accurate and was validated with hundreds of thousands of trials. It has been included in Poli Sci texts and gives some real perspective and understanding to those smart enough or brave enough to use it.

People who fall into the statist corner: socialists of all stripes: fascists, communists, populists ... are the one's who don't like this map, because it reveals their true colors.


A score of 0/0 would be a perfect totalitarian.


FDR's political score:

The political description that
fits best is...

.

STATIST

STATISTS want government to have a great deal of power

over the economy and individual behavior. They frequently

doubt whether economic liberty and individual freedom

are practical options in today's world. Statists tend to distrust

the free market, support high taxes and centralized

planning of the economy, oppose diverse lifestyles,

and question the importance of civil liberties.




FDR's PERSONAL issues Score is 10%.
FDR's ECONOMIC issues Score is 0%.
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Gopher



Joined: 04 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Big_Bird wrote:
...a centrist nowadays probably is equivalent to being a rightwing crackpot!


Ha.

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Pligannease, and I scored in the same ballpark. So I imagine we represent the rightwing.

It is true that after the 1980s, America went to the right. Before that, from FDR's time, it had been to the left. That is why several professional historians I know speak of Nixon's (think of his big-govt programs like the Clean Air Act and the EPA) being to the left of Clinton (think of his reaffirmation of classical Liberal economics, or "neoLiberalism").

But Big_Bird: whoever said that the pre-Reagan era represented the ideal baseline...?
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Pluto



Joined: 19 Dec 2006

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ontheway wrote:
This quiz is completely accurate and was validated with hundreds of thousands of trials. It has been included in Poli Sci texts and gives some real perspective and understanding to those smart enough or brave enough to use it.




Where, specifically has it been validated?

LIBERTARIANS support maximum liberty in both personal and

economic matters. They advocate a much smaller government; one

that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence.

Libertarians tend to embrace individual responsibility, oppose

government bureaucracy and taxes, promote private charity, tolerate

diverse lifestyles, support the free market, and defend civil liberties.

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

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 90%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 80%.

Something about this test seems too simple. I think the quiz is biased towards Libertarian values.
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Gopher



Joined: 04 Jun 2005

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everything is biased towards something.

But my issue with this "test" is its simplistic nature. Tests like these are good for starting conversations where people are comfortable talking about politics -- and not to be taken seriously.

Some of us who post here hold complex views on multiple issues. We overlap in this or that category, and this often changes in different contexts. How can someone put an easy label on that?
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stillnotking



Joined: 18 Dec 2007
Location: Oregon, USA

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rteacher wrote:
(Liberty for materialists is sheer illusion.)


There is no deterministic critique of materialism that doesn't apply equally to dualism.

It's also worth keeping in mind that, in the absence of foreknowledge, it makes no difference at all to me whether my actions are predetermined or not. It would be like a blackjack player expressing dismay that the order of the cards in the deck, and hence the outcome of the game, is "fixed".
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mistermasan



Joined: 20 Sep 2007
Location: 10+ yrs on Dave's ESL cafe

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 11:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

high libertarian

80/80
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Jimskins



Joined: 07 Nov 2007

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm so far right I'm wrong.
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