short "political self-awareness" quiz

I enjoyed this immensely, so I'm passing it on.

"World's Smallest Political Quiz"

http://www.theadvocates.org/quizp/index.html


Have fun! (And GO VOTE!!!)

<3

--Frayed

Hee hee, fun stuff!

I'm politics-impaired and don't know diddly about most of it...but apparently, I'm a crazy left-wing liberal.

Yay me!

I'm a 'centrist' apparently:

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 50%
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 40%

You Americans and your politics... ...when will you learn that using a 'tag' (i.e. liberal, conservative, etc) goes against the very thing Democracy tries to bring. When you use tags, your views can genuinely become skewed - i.e. you might follow some law that you otherwise wouldn't. For example, saying "I'm Kevin", as opposed to "I'm Kevin the conservative" can bring different results.

Kevin

unsurprisingly, I'm a libertarian.
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 90%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 60%.

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 70%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 90%

Libertarian, I already knew that I was underneath that umbrella though. :p

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 40%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 20%.

I'm a "statist."

That's a bit broad, since you could use that term for extremes of either side of the spectrum.

Glad you guys enjoyed it.

I was 80% / 80%, smack-dab in the middle of the Libertarian square. Didn't surprise me.

Chucky wrote:I'm a 'centrist' apparently:

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 50%
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 40%

You Americans and your politics... ...when will you learn that using a 'tag' (i.e. liberal, conservative, etc) goes against the very thing Democracy tries to bring. When you use tags, your views can genuinely become skewed - i.e. you might follow some law that you otherwise wouldn't. For example, saying "I'm Kevin", as opposed to "I'm Kevin the conservative" can bring different results.

Kevin

What do you think Democracy tries to bring? And since when have you been under the impression that the American system of government (or any other) is a democracy or even particularly democratic? Then again, you're from Britain, where you're told that your system is a democracy (lol), which makes the term even worse-defined. (virtually no sovereign state has been governed by true democracy since Athens)

Meh, democracy is overrated anyway, since it puts more focus on the process than the actual decisions . . . any decision is right if it is "democratic." Even if it's terrible. There is a perfect example of this, but mentioning it would kill the thread probably, so I won't.

insincerity wrote:You Americans and your politics... ...when will you learn that using a 'tag' (i.e. liberal, conservative, etc) goes against the very thing Democracy tries to bring. When you use tags, your views can genuinely become skewed - i.e. you might follow some law that you otherwise wouldn't. For example, saying "I'm Kevin", as opposed to "I'm Kevin the conservative" can bring different results.

Democracy is supposed to bring - essentially - freedom of mind, expression, etc. When you use a 'tag' such as liberal, people are 'told' what to think, instead of actually having that freedom that democracy is supposed to bring. I'm not from Britain at all, thankfully, as I was born in Ireland and lived there for 26 years and 6 months. I'm now 27.