Where on the political spectrum are you?

[Miulang]

Contrary to what some people believe, my views are on the cusp of centrist/liberal/libertarian, which means I'm not so far out in left field that I can't see the middle.

Take this little test (http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html) to see where you end up. Short and interesting and I found it on the Hawaiian Libertarian Party website.


Miulang

[DaveNSoKona]

Well, I took your test but I don't think that the classification is useful with such a short test with questions that are so black and white.

Example: End "corporate welfare." No government handouts to business (even if that business employs 14,000 workers and a large part of a state's economy depends on that industry) Then how would most people answer? You could make up caveats for every question to twist the results.

BTW: The test classified me as "Liberal".

[kamapuaa]

I'm on the side that doesn't have the Christian nutballs, whatever that is. Usually, that means the liberals. That test is totally lame, btw.

[MadAzza]

Libertarian. But I already knew that.

But ackshually ... I'm not 100 percent lib, IMO. Conservative in some ways, liberal in others, libertarian in many.

[pzarquon]

"World's Smallest Political Quiz"? Like that's a good thing?

Categorizing people and their views is difficult (some would say impossible) enough. To try and distill it into ten questions seems pointless.

I posted a while back about the Political Compass (http://www.politicalcompass.org/). I thought the numerical, graph-able results would be more useful. Why not take that quiz, post your numbers, and someone who's better at Microsoft Excel than I am could post a map of this board's members.

[waioli kai]

Playing "the little quiz" one can see why the site claims 4mln+ "quiz takers." Many of us no doubt take the quiz trying to get a preselected result just to find out what is the resulting stereotype that different combinations determine.

When voting a certain way that includes the military draft statement with agreement/maybe/disagreement columns : Military service should be voluntary. There should be no draft.

By agreeing with the statement (ie, there should be no draft) one is deemed
i (by the quiz's maker)
to be more to the left. Is not the US Right Wing suit and tie class having all its spokespersons praising voluntary military service to the exclusion of a draft?

[jdub]

the quiz tells me i'm a liberal...nnnnooooooooo! i agree with pz...the issues are far to complicated to pigeonhole someone into a political ideology with a scant few broad-stroke questions...

[Miulang]

the quiz tells me i'm a liberal...nnnnooooooooo! i agree with pz...the issues are far to complicated to pigeonhole someone into a political ideology with a scant few broad-stroke questions...
Unfortunately, Jaime, that's how a lot of people get pigeonholed and labeled...just because they state they believe one thing, then everybody tacks a generic name on them (i.e., "liberal", "conservative", space cadet, whatever).

The whole point I was trying to make is that I found this quiz on the Hawaii Libertarian website, and if I had answered every question "maybe", I would have been labelled a Centrist! I believe in some liberal causes, and some conservative causes (an imbalanced budget drives me nuts; I believe in living within my own means, and I expect that from government too).

Miulang

[waioli kai]

....
Conservative, militarist anti-Leftist

This era's US Conservative, r i t i s t, more "American" than thee, RWN (right -wing nut(s) ) anti-Leftist (aka fascist when militarist anti-Leftist ) had their equivalent in the latter half of the 1700's in the United States. An RWN nowadays covers himself and his carriage with faux patriotism, but during the birth of this nation which RWN claim that only they can love, they were the Loyalists, loyal to the British crown, worshippers of imperialist status quo. They have changed not a whit, except that now they wrap themselves in a different pattern of the same colors, the same imperialist, militarist ideology which the founders of the United States rejected.

[1stwahine]

Ok, I took the test. I'm a Centrist. :confused:

Auntie Lynn

[Keith H.]

Shortest Political Quiz: 80% Social, 40% Economic, which puts me at Liberal, but just outside the Centrist square.

Political Compass: -3.50 Economic Left/Right, -3.08 Authoritarian/Libertarian, which puts me at Libertarian Left.

I'd characterize my political commentaries on my blog as center-left.

[saigonwarrior]

Conservative on foriegn policy, liberal for social and civil rights issues.

[Tiger Beer]

I scored smack dab (and slight on the left side) for LIBERTARIANS.

Generally not where I'd put myself.. but thats what it says.

NOW THE FUNNY THING ABOUT THIS..

This website was designed by Libertarians.. so its basically a self-advertisement for themselves and their party! They got ya!