Worlds Smallest Political Quiz

[Celeste]

the right wing authoritarians are too busy planning how to rule all of us fucking around with internet quizzes to actually waste their time taking them

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

By the way, I got this quiz from the Robbie Fulks chatboard.
 
 http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/robbie-fulks.html
 
    Fulks, apparently refers to himself as a libertarian, though he adds:
 
 Ayn Rand's biography easily beats any of the books she wrote, if it's interesting books you like. I am comfortable enough with the libertarian tag, though after 9-11 an abridgment of the absolutist understanding of civil liberties was both inevitable and necessary.
 
 I hate musicians that dabble in political issues, or even say much about them, because it transforms them immediately from dashing figures of romance to pious retards. I'd hate to rob anyone of the pleasure of my music just because he read somewhere that I voted for Reagan. Oops.

[Venerable Bede]

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[kosmo vinyl]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
  I guess what is amusing is the people that have taken it are far more left and middle than the national averages. I wonder if that is a product of our age, location, wealth or all three.

what i find interesting is the results of a more "scientific" telephone poll of 822 likely voters in 2000.  the results are still going to skewed in the favor of liberatian because of the simplicity of the questions.  
 
 "Using the same questions and scale, a Portrait of America telephone survey of 822 likely voters found 32% of American voters are centrists; 16% are libertarians; 14% are authoritarians; 13% liberal; 7% are conservative; and, 17% border one or more categories."
 
  http://www.theadvocates.org/library/poll-results.html
 
 
 addendum:  I wonder what the results of this quiz would be post 9/11 with this question still in place "People should be free to come and go across borders; to live and work where they choose."

[poorlulu]

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[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Poorlulu is my exact match...

[mankie]

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 I did notice I never had to answer "Maybe", guess I am an opinionated old bugger.

[walkman]

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 hell, you're only young once...

[poorlulu]

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
  Poorlulu is my exact match...

i knew i was a.........  <img src="http://www.lehighvalleyicearena.com/images/snow-flake.gif" alt=" - " />

[Justin Tonation]

Originally posted by Harriet Balls:
   

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  well the overall results would have to be a bit skewed seeing as it's a on a site advocating self-government.  plus i would have to agree with harriet on the over simplification of complex issues.

it follows that a libertarian site would oversimplify the issues, given that libertarianism itself offers some great ideas in THEORY but greatly oversimplifies reality [/b]

Me:
 
   <img src="http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/s080_020.gif" alt=" - " />
 
 Big L libertarians are often full of themselves, just check out the grid on the header of the score page:
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[Celeste]

I find the number of you leaning toward the authoritarian sector of the grid a little alarming...it seems to indicate you want to be protected, and so you'd be willing to cede your freedoms for this...bah!

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I thought it showed that we weren't gun toting militants from rural Michigan...
 
 

Originally posted by Harriet Balls:
  I find the number of you leaning toward the authoritarian sector of the grid a little alarming...it seems to indicate you want to be protected, and so you'd be willing to cede your freedoms for this...bah!

[Celeste]

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
  I thought it showed that we weren't gun toting militants from rural Michigan...

Like I said, maybe you are more comfortable with the government controlling things since you work for them...BUT...you can't give over so much control. I think "the people" need to stop looking at it as corporations/industry vs. government with government on our side. Government is no more on "our" side than industry. We should not think that government will protect us from the big, bad corporations to the point that we give government sooo much control. It has to be balanced. Hence, my centrist score (in this oversimplified quiz).

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

I'm comfortable with the goverment regulating industry, which doesn't mean controlling it.
 
    I'll trust someone whose job it is to regulate something over someone whose job it is to make as much money as possible on most days of the week.

[ggw]

Originally posted by Harriet Balls:
 Like I said, maybe you are more comfortable with the government controlling things since you work for them...BUT...you can't give over so much control. I think "the people" need to stop looking at it as corporations/industry vs. government with government on our side. Government is no more on "our" side than industry. We should not think that government will protect us from the big, bad corporations to the point that we give government sooo much control. It has to be balanced. Hence, my centrist score (in this oversimplified quiz).

Other than the question about minimum wage, what other items in the quiz are about protecting us from big bad corporations?