Political quiz
Mar. 16th, 2004 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drscottOkay, I'll bite. But this is really just a "social" quiz, which tells you nothing about other dimensions of policy. It shows me as a "liberal," which of course I am. But I'm also an economic liberal, meaning I tend to favor freedom in economic affairs as well. What we in America call "liberals" are typically interested in using a bigger government to achieve a wide variety of social goods, which rarely works as expected.
Where do you fall on the liberal - conservative political spectrum? (United States)
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Here's a much better quiz, which doesn't have a nice graphic. It charts out the second dimension of economic freedom. On this I end up two squares from "radical libertarian," (that is, a classic liberal)which is only radical because the center has drifted so far toward authoritarianism during the 30s and 40s when the world was in the grip of ideologies that threatened to destroy all freedom-oriented countries. These days very few citizens understand how much money has corrupted the use of power -- for example, how we all pay extra taxes and higher prices so Archer Daniels Midland can make huge profits on ethanol for gasoline and corn sweeteners that make us fat because they and their corporate farmer allies control Congress on those issues. While some segments of the US economy are relatively free, others -- agriculture, construction, broadcasting, energy, healthcare, transportation -- are heavily controlled and milked for political payoffs.
Neither party, by the way, has any interest in ending this system, which is why I rarely vote for a Republican or a Democrat -- it only validates their corrupt control of the system.
Where do you fall on the liberal - conservative political spectrum? (United States)
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Here's a much better quiz, which doesn't have a nice graphic. It charts out the second dimension of economic freedom. On this I end up two squares from "radical libertarian," (that is, a classic liberal)which is only radical because the center has drifted so far toward authoritarianism during the 30s and 40s when the world was in the grip of ideologies that threatened to destroy all freedom-oriented countries. These days very few citizens understand how much money has corrupted the use of power -- for example, how we all pay extra taxes and higher prices so Archer Daniels Midland can make huge profits on ethanol for gasoline and corn sweeteners that make us fat because they and their corporate farmer allies control Congress on those issues. While some segments of the US economy are relatively free, others -- agriculture, construction, broadcasting, energy, healthcare, transportation -- are heavily controlled and milked for political payoffs.
Neither party, by the way, has any interest in ending this system, which is why I rarely vote for a Republican or a Democrat -- it only validates their corrupt control of the system.
