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Politics Test

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You are a

Social Liberal
(80% permissive)


and an...

Economic Liberal
(21% permissive)


You are best described as a:

Socialist


You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (112, -106)
modscore: (13, 48)
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Yay.
 
Originally posted by: miketheidiot
You are a

Social Liberal
(80% permissive)


and an...

Economic Liberal
(21% permissive)


You are best described as a:

Socialist


You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (112, -106)
modscore: (13, 48)
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Yay.
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Welcome to the club 🙂 Or should I say welcome to the club everyone seems to hate 🙂
 
You are a

Social Conservative
(31% permissive)


and an...

Economic Conservative
(88% permissive)

You are best described as a:
Strong Republican


You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.
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Why, thank you!

I voted for kerry though
 
You are a

Social Liberal
(68% permissive)

and an...

Economic Liberal
(35% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Democrat

You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.
 
Originally posted by: kotss
As with most polls this is arguably billshut. I am sick of political billshut, lets get this
country back on track, have honest people representing us and stop trying to nannyize the world. Lets put the power back into the hands of the people and not the rich who have
absolutely no ties whatsoever with the elected officials. This whole democrat/republican/
whatever is all crap and should be thrown in the toilet where it belongs.
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I agree
 
You are a
Social Moderate
(50% permissive)


and an...
Economic Liberal
(23% permissive)


You are best described as a:

Democrat

You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (0, -100)
modscore: (14, 30)
raw: (1830)
 
Originally posted by: Drekce
Strong Republican. It is funny that 2/3 of the people who have taken that test voted for Kerry in the last election.
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haha I noticed that too.

It pegged me as a Republican...ITS PSYCHIC!!
 

You are a

Social Liberal
(65% permissive)



and an...

Economic Moderate
(41% permissive)



You are best described as a:


Centrist


You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.
 
You are a

Social Liberal
(70% permissive)


and an...

Economic Liberal
(20% permissive)


You are best described as a:

Socialist


You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.



Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -4.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72
 
Hmm, I always thought I was more of a centerist .... Guess I was wrong.


You are a

Social Liberal
(71% permissive)


and an...

Economic Liberal
(33% permissive)


You are best described as a:

Democrat


You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. lo
 
Originally posted by: mwtgg
How can some of you people be for social freedoms, but not for the freedom of the market? It boggles my mind.
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Two simple words: Class envy.

"Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demand for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen."

"Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it."

--Ayn Rand
 
I always thought I was a libertarian.

You are a

Social Liberal
(83% permissive)


and an...

Economic Moderate
(43% permissive)


You are best described as a:

Strong Democrat
 
I always thought I was a libertarian... You are best described as a: Strong Democrat
  • Never saw a social program you didn't like, eh?
 
Originally posted by: chrisms
I always thought I was a libertarian.

You are a

Social Liberal
(83% permissive)


and an...

Economic Moderate
(43% permissive)


You are best described as a:

Strong Democrat
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To be libertarian, you'll need to allow people more economic freedom.

This test has a lot of trick economic questions that appeal to emotion, a false morality and class envy. See past them and retake the test.
 
You are a

Social Liberal
(63% permissive)


and an...

Economic Liberal
(30% permissive)


You are best described as a:

Democrat


You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (
 
You are a

Social Conservative
(38% permissive)

and an...

Economic Moderate
(43% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Centrist

You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.
 
I highly suspected this result:

You are a:

Social Liberal (61% permissive)

and an...

Economic Moderate (56% permissive)


You are best described as a: Centrist

You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.
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Future Shock
 
You are a

Social Liberal
(71% permissive)



and an...

Economic Moderate
(56% permissive)



You are best described as a:


Democrat


You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc
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Originally posted by: mwtgg
How can some of you people be for social freedoms, but not for the freedom of the market? It boggles my mind.
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Because the freedom of the market sometimes hides or mis-allocates true economic costs to society as a whole. For example, a logging company can get very rich cutting down all the trees in a forest. However, when erosion caused by the lack of those trees leads to the loss of vital nutrients and nothing can ever grow in that forest again, the public at large bears the cost of that, not the logging company.

If I build a coal-fired electrical plant, and put a tall smokestack on it, the sulphuric acid exhuast does not come down near my plant - but states or even countries away. Who should bear the cost of the economic damage that acid does? If it ruins a vast stretch of farm land, should I still be allowed to operate the electrical plant? Strict Ranyian theory says yes - but a more rigorous economic/social calculus says no, because you are not bearing the true cost of the plant into the profitability equations. You have managed to generate revenue, and shifted some or most of the cost onto someone else. Basically, that's considered stealing in most Sunday schools - or any moral system worth mentioning. And it's THAT that results in many with social conciousnesses to have reservations on sheer, unbridled capitalism - because the ONE way to consistently get rich is to make someone else bear the cost of something that benefits you.

These cries of "class envy" should really be cries of "education envy" of those screaming it the most. Rand was an author - not an accomplished economist, either applied or theoretical. In her perfect world, her coal-mining protagonists never destroyed huge tracts of farmland that would never be arable again, nor did her railroad-exec heroines ever run a mainline throught the center of someone else's town and destroy their property via "eminent domain". Because that just wouldn't be the perfect picture of unbridled capitalism that she so wanted to infuse on impressionable, uncritical minds. Hell, I read all of her works myself when I was younger, and loved them...until I started taking upper level business and econ courses, and realized how much of a simpleton she was. A simplistic author for simplistic people trying to look cool...too bad most people reading those pages didn't simply pick up a few good 200/300-level economic texts instead...

Future Shock
 
You are a

Social Liberal
(63% permissive)


and an...

Economic Moderate
(41% permissive)


You are best described as a:

Centrist


You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. l
 
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