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YOUR political philosophy?

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 4:16 AM

There are various political quizes on the internet. I found a great one on Ontheissues.org that is really good at giving you a description of your personal political title.

Here it is...

http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/XPolitics/quiz_main.asp?Page=1&Clea
r=Y

I invite and ask everyone reading this to take that quiz and post the result of what their own political philosophy apparently is according to that site.

As expected mine was "Moderate Libertarian".

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 5:06 AM

BARNSTORMER

Well, I always thought of myself as a moderate conservative. And I was'nt to far off.

I edged a bit into the populist sector so I've been "Labeled" as a Conservative Leaning Populist.

Am I a Lion?... No, I think I'ma tellin' the truth.

BarnStormer

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 5:45 AM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

On the issues the quiz covers, looks like I'm a Moderate, slightly trending towards Liberal and Libertarian. I could live with that label.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:13 AM

RKLENSETH

I'm a Moderate Libertarian Conservative.

Oh, and play Cantr II at www.cantr.net.

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:19 AM

ANARKO

Quote:
Originally posted by rklenseth:
I'm a Moderate Libertarian Conservative.

Same here!

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:39 AM

CONNORFLYNN

Interesting Quiz. It seems just about right on.

Centrist here, leaning toward Libertarian :)

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:51 AM

LOSTINTHEVERSE

Moderate Libertarian Conservative... That's about what I'd have said about myself before this. It put me a little farther right than I generally like to think though...

~ Lost In The 'Verse

"About a year before we met, I spent 6 months on a moon where the primary form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to god. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled!"

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:51 AM

LOSTINTHEVERSE

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 7:28 AM

CONSCIENCE

According to that great website, I'm a Libertarian-Leaning Conservative. Which is what I usually think of myself as.

http://www.constitutionparty.com/

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Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:15 PM

CREVANREAVER

Some interesting results from all of my friends. They all came up as either a type of Libertarian or a type of Conservative.

A couple were Hard-Core Conservative, a few were Hard-Core Libertarian, some more few were either Conservative-Leaning Libertarian or Libertarian-Leaning Conservative, one was Moderate Libertarian like myself, but everyone else was Moderate Libertarian Conservative.

Not one of my friends that took the test showed up as being liberal in any of its variations.

Maybe I should try and find some liberal friends to broaden my horizons.

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Thursday, November 11, 2004 5:10 PM

DARKJESTER

I'll be your friend, CrevanReaver! I was labelled a Moderate Liberal, and I'd agree with that.

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

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Friday, November 12, 2004 12:22 AM

SKYWALKEN

I just took the test and it scored me as a "Hard-Core Conservative".

Personal Score: 12%
Economic Score: 81%

Alright, I can live with that.

Oh, and this is my first post!

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Friday, November 12, 2004 2:03 PM

CONSCIENCE

Being a Libertarian-Leaning Conservative, mine was:

Personal Score: 32%
Economic Score: 88%

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Friday, November 12, 2004 2:09 PM

GINOBIFFARONI

Moderate Liberal Populist .

Sort of where my country is

" Don't Blame Me I Voted For Kudos "

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Friday, November 12, 2004 3:51 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Liberal populist, WAAAY over on the economic end.

Social score 60
Economic score 0

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Friday, November 12, 2004 4:33 PM

HARDWARE

According to the test I am a Moderate Populist Conservative.

Personal Score 32%
Economic Score 42%
Meh.

The more I get to know people the more I like my dogs.

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Friday, November 12, 2004 5:31 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

I was curious so played with the test. Some answers gave results I don't think are reflective of how the test is 'supposed' to score. For example (all other answers being 'no opinion' - which is the easiest way to score right in the middle of moderate) support for reducing taxes on rich folks moved the dot to 'left liberal'. Hunh?

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Saturday, November 13, 2004 6:38 AM

CONSCIENCE

Quote:
Originally posted by Skywalken:
...this is my first post!

Then let me be the first to write - WELCOME!

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Sunday, November 14, 2004 2:51 AM

CREVANREAVER

OK, after some serious and careful thought about where I stand on the issues presented in the quiz I retook it and this time my political philosophy came out as "Conservative-Leaning Libertarian."

Personal Score: 72%
Economic Score: 92%

And now that I think about it, I do lean towards conservatism. After all I almost voted for President Bush before I decided to go with Badnarik.

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Sunday, November 14, 2004 6:42 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Rue- so in other words, it sounds like you tested the test by keeping all answers in the middle except one, and looking at the results? Were there any others that seemed to move the result in a spurious direction??

That'll teach me to accept stuff like this w/o question! My hat's off to the ultimate skeptic/ scientist! You get the weekly skeptic award!

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Monday, November 15, 2004 8:01 AM

HERMAS

Resident Monarchist

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:26 AM

BARNSTORMER

Quote:
Originally posted by rue:
I was curious so played with the test. Some answers gave results I don't think are reflective of how the test is 'supposed' to score. For example (all other answers being 'no opinion' - which is the easiest way to score right in the middle of moderate) support for reducing taxes on rich folks moved the dot to 'left liberal'. Hunh?

Rue,

I did the same test as you stated above, answer no opinion on everything except "reduce taxation on the rich" which I put in support.

It came back as 1 tick up towards Libertarian and 1 tick to the right towards conservative.
So 1 up and 1 right from dead center moderate.

It seems to work ok to me. Whats up?

Am I a Lion?... No, I think I'ma tellin' the truth.

BarnStormer

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:53 AM

KNIBBLET

Moderate Populist
Personal Score 38%
Economic Score 25%

* I'm a supporter of a flat 10% income tax with NO deductions for every income level.

* I support national health and cannot fathom why King George is supporting universal healthcare in Iraq when he fights it at home -- other than he isn't getting huge fat whonking contributions from the Iraqi health industry.

* I see no positives to guns that can get through metal detectors.

"Just keep walkin, preacher man."

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 2:03 PM

BERENTAUR

It says I'm a hard-core liberal, I agree with that.

Personal Score 88%
Economic Score 6%

It's a little strange though, calling myself a liberal. In Australia the liberal party is the conservative party and the labor party is the left-wing party. Never understood how they managed to acquire the title "liberal".

"How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious."

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Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:28 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

Gino,

We have the same politcal label.

when you going to finish your fan fic?

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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 7:54 AM

HERO

Nice topic and link.

I'm a Populist Leaning Conservative.

10%, 68%

Thats "Compassionate Conservative" in Bushspeak.

Essentially its God, Guns, and low taxes.

H

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Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:13 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

Don't know what's up. I thought maybe the back and forth on the test messed up the pages, so I tried resetting EVERYTHING to no-opinion to re-establish 'moderate', which it did successfully, then changing ONE answer, which did move the dot, but not in ways I expected.

But I am having a hard time with this website at times as well, so maybe it's a computer-thing.

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Saturday, November 20, 2004 9:53 AM

SKYWALKEN

I'd just like to add that I think the other tests on that website are pretty informative as well.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Quiz.htm

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Saturday, November 20, 2004 10:25 AM

TRAGICSTORY

I didn't like that test because I couldn't argue my points.

For example: Abortion Is A Woman's Right. Yes, but in my opinion, it is also a man's.

Allow Churches To Provide Welfare Services: Churches actually have the greatest percentage of each dollar going towards the need instead of the administration. I agree with it because it is an established system that works. Church vs State doesn't influence my decision here.

Reduce use of coal and oil as energy sources: I beleive we should be self-seficiant because I don't believe in sending money to the Middle East, not because I care about the enviornment, global warming or the fuzzy wuzzys.

The list goes on but you get my drift.

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"Societies are supported by human activity, therefore they are constantly threatened by the human facts of self-intrest and stupidity." --Peter Berger

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Monday, November 22, 2004 1:40 PM

LIBERALSARESTUPID

Quote:
Originally posted by Hero:
I'm a Populist Leaning Conservative.

10%, 68%

Thats "Compassionate Conservative" in Bushspeak.

Put me on the list as another "Populist-Leaning Conservative" aka Compassionate Conservative.

Personal Score 12%
Economic Score 78%

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Thursday, November 25, 2004 11:52 PM

SKYWALKEN

SIR, I love your username!

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Friday, November 26, 2004 10:09 AM

LIBERALSARESTUPID

Quote:
Originally posted by Skywalken:
SIR, I love your username!

Thanks, I wanted to be to the point.

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Friday, November 26, 2004 10:32 AM

GHOULMAN

^^^ Most ironic username ever!

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Wednesday, December 1, 2004 8:17 PM

CONSCIENCE

Ironic?

The only thing wrong with the username is that it should be really accurate and be Liberalsarestupidpussies.

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Friday, December 3, 2004 6:40 AM

ANARKO

Quote:
Originally posted by Conscience:
The only thing wrong with the username is that it should be really accurate and be Liberalsarestupidpussies.

Right on!

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Friday, December 3, 2004 7:18 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

I don't get it. A lot of people are posting their scores and seem to LIKE the fact that they score less than 40 out of 100 on personal freedoms (as conservatives and populists.) Is that something you really want to advertise?

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Tuesday, December 21, 2004 3:02 AM

CONSCIENCE

Quote:
Originally posted by rue:
I don't get it. A lot of people are posting their scores and seem to LIKE the fact that they score less than 40 out of 100 on personal freedoms (as conservatives and populists.) Is that something you really want to advertise?

YES, I for one am very proud of my Personal Score of 32 percent.

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Tuesday, December 21, 2004 4:16 AM

EMBERS

Moderate Liberal Populist...
I'm not surprised
but I would express my political philosophy as
"do unto other as you would have them
do unto you"
or
love others as yourself....

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Thursday, December 23, 2004 4:40 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

Just wondering about the scores, is all. The US is in Iraq for, well not WMD, but FREEDOM ! So it's been told. But if people don't actually believe in personal freedoms, then what kind of freedom are they thinking about? If they only want freedom for themselves, but not others, then perhaps they really believe in the tyranny of the few over the many.

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Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:29 PM

DEVP

My result: "Moderate Libertarian Liberal"
Personal Score 66%
Economic Score 48%

That sounds about right (esp. since I'm a frequent poster at http://libertariansforamerica.blogs.com ), but I feel like these questions are not quite right. (Frex, I'm guessing that wanting to "Require Minorities being hired" registers you as less Personal libertarian, whereas I'd prefer that such a thing isn't legally required, snd would rather just use my pocketbook to foil unfair businesses.) Also, these quizes are often designed to promote libertarian viewpoints, but oh well.

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Thursday, December 23, 2004 10:44 PM

MACBAKER

According to the test, I'm a "Moderate Populist Conservative".

Can't really argue with that!

I'd given some thought to movin' off the edge -- not an ideal location -- thinkin' a place in the middle.

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Friday, December 24, 2004 4:00 PM

RAT

Hard-Core Conservative!
6%
85%

cool

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Wednesday, December 29, 2004 4:47 PM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

But no answer yet to my query. Conservatives often shout the loudest about freedom, but seem to have little actual liking of it. Anyone care to explain?

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Tuesday, January 4, 2005 11:23 AM

TUBETECHNOLOGY

Quote:
Originally posted by Anarko:
Quote:
Originally posted by Conscience:
The only thing wrong with the username is that it should be really accurate and be Liberalsarestupidpussies.

Right on!

Huh. Took the test myself just now:

Personal: 68%
Economic: 16%

Guess that makes me a liberalstupidpussy. Funny, I stopped calling people names in 3rd grade. Perhaps the whole conservative/liberal issue is too complicated for you? Have some milk and go to bed - we'll talk when you grow up.

"We'll all live in tubes!"

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Tuesday, January 4, 2005 12:21 PM

INDIGO

Hmm, a Populist-Leaning Liberal. Yea, that's about right: "...means you believe in tolerance for different people and lifestyles." And "...means you believe that a good society is best achieved by the government redistributing wealth. You believe that government's purpose is to decide which programs are good for society, and how much should be spent on each program."

I came from a family from both sides of the coin and made up my own mind, btw.

Cheers, Indigo

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Tuesday, January 4, 2005 1:00 PM

SOUPCATCHER

Since this thread popped back up I decided to go and retake the test. And that reminded me of the problems I had with the test the first time I took it

.

But, just for the record, here's my results:

Personal: 82%
Economic: 31%

So that puts me in the libertarian-leaning liberal category, which is a label I can live with.

I ended up putting "No Opinion" for eight of the questions (five of which were scored) simply because I thought the statement was poorly worded. For example, "Permit prayer in public schools": I think everyone should be able to pray at school (duh) - or, to rephrase, I don't think prayer should be outlawed at school - so that means I support this but I also think that no public employee should use their position to advocate for a particular denomination so that means I oppose this.

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Wednesday, January 5, 2005 6:01 AM

TUBETECHNOLOGY

Yeah, I take some issue with the statement, "redistribute the wealth." Actually, I'm not so much for distributing wealth per se, but rather not abandoning the bottom half of the economic pool. If I understand correctly, when the government decides how to spend money, we really mean "we" decide. Er... I mean those of us who actually participate in government.

Throwing stones at a system is only useful if you're willing to fix the holes. Otherwise, you're just a vandal.

Also, the word "tolerance" implies some level of superiority, which I don't agree with. I don't tolerate different people, I respect them. Well, unless they voted for

!

"We'll all live in tubes!"

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Saturday, January 8, 2005 7:26 AM

SSPRINGS

I am a Liberal-Leaning Libertarian.

Personal Score 95%
Economic Score 60%

I can think of worse things...

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Saturday, January 8, 2005 9:55 AM

WEASY

I'm a moderate liberal populist.
I find myself slightly surprised that there are so many conservatives here, because Firefly struck me as a slightly left leaning show. But that's IMO.

Rue...

Quote:

Just wondering about the scores, is all. The US is in Iraq for, well not WMD, but FREEDOM ! So it's been told. But if people don't actually believe in personal freedoms, then what kind of freedom are they thinking about? If they only want freedom for themselves, but not others, then perhaps they really believe in the tyranny of the few over the many.

You are very right.

This is my first post, maybe I shouldn't be so very obvious about what I think but *shrugs* this is meant to be a discussion.

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Saturday, January 8, 2005 12:41 PM

FIREFLOOZYSUZIE

I also agree that some of the survey questions were poorly phrased. However, I do generally agree with the conclusion that I am a Moderate Liberal.

I'd like to see this test re-issued with slightly different questions, e.g. "Which is more objectionable: Violent Television Program or Television Progrem With Nudity?"

One of the things that I find puzzling about some of my so-called Conservative acquaintances is that they are squeamish about frank portrayals of sex - and freaked out that young people might be exposed to nudity, even in a non-sexual context! - but have no problem with depictions of bloodletting. Whereas, many of the peacenik liberals I've known consider uberviolent programming (including graphic depictions of war) to be the REAL pornography.

Wonder where libertarians fall?

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Saturday, January 8, 2005 12:58 PM

DAG

It said I was a Moderate Conservative
Personal Score 31%
Economic Srore 64%

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