YOUR political philosophy?
POSTED BY: CrevanReaver
UPDATED: Thursday, June 11, 2026 03:42
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Hard-Core Conservative!
6%
85%
cool
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But no answer yet to my query. Conservatives often shout the loudest about freedom, but seem to have little actual liking of it. Anyone care to explain?
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Originally posted by Anarko:Quote:
Originally posted by Conscience:
The only thing wrong with the username is that it should be really accurate and be Liberalsarestupidpussies.
Right on!
Huh. Took the test myself just now:
Personal: 68%
Economic: 16%
Guess that makes me a liberalstupidpussy. Funny, I stopped calling people names in 3rd grade. Perhaps the whole conservative/liberal issue is too complicated for you? Have some milk and go to bed - we'll talk when you grow up.
"We'll all live in tubes!"
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Hmm, a Populist-Leaning Liberal. Yea, that's about right: "...means you believe in tolerance for different people and lifestyles." And "...means you believe that a good society is best achieved by the government redistributing wealth. You believe that government's purpose is to decide which programs are good for society, and how much should be spent on each program."
I came from a family from both sides of the coin and made up my own mind, btw.
Cheers, Indigo
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Since this thread popped back up I decided to go and retake the test. And that reminded me of the problems I had with the test the first time I took it 
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But, just for the record, here's my results:
Personal: 82%
Economic: 31%
So that puts me in the libertarian-leaning liberal category, which is a label I can live with.
I ended up putting "No Opinion" for eight of the questions (five of which were scored) simply because I thought the statement was poorly worded. For example, "Permit prayer in public schools": I think everyone should be able to pray at school (duh) - or, to rephrase, I don't think prayer should be outlawed at school - so that means I support this but I also think that no public employee should use their position to advocate for a particular denomination so that means I oppose this.
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"What sort of raw meat do you people feed your cruiser captains, Hamish?" - Queen Elizabeth III of Manticore
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Yeah, I take some issue with the statement, "redistribute the wealth." Actually, I'm not so much for distributing wealth per se, but rather not abandoning the bottom half of the economic pool. If I understand correctly, when the government decides how to spend money, we really mean "we" decide. Er... I mean those of us who actually participate in government.
Throwing stones at a system is only useful if you're willing to fix the holes. Otherwise, you're just a vandal.
Also, the word "tolerance" implies some level of superiority, which I don't agree with. I don't tolerate different people, I respect them. Well, unless they voted for 
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"We'll all live in tubes!"
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I am a Liberal-Leaning Libertarian.
Personal Score 95%
Economic Score 60%
I can think of worse things...
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I'm a moderate liberal populist.
I find myself slightly surprised that there are so many conservatives here, because Firefly struck me as a slightly left leaning show. But that's IMO.
Rue...
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Just wondering about the scores, is all. The US is in Iraq for, well not WMD, but FREEDOM ! So it's been told. But if people don't actually believe in personal freedoms, then what kind of freedom are they thinking about? If they only want freedom for themselves, but not others, then perhaps they really believe in the tyranny of the few over the many.
You are very right.
This is my first post, maybe I shouldn't be so very obvious about what I think but *shrugs* this is meant to be a discussion.
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I also agree that some of the survey questions were poorly phrased. However, I do generally agree with the conclusion that I am a Moderate Liberal.
I'd like to see this test re-issued with slightly different questions, e.g. "Which is more objectionable: Violent Television Program or Television Progrem With Nudity?"
One of the things that I find puzzling about some of my so-called Conservative acquaintances is that they are squeamish about frank portrayals of sex - and freaked out that young people might be exposed to nudity, even in a non-sexual context! - but have no problem with depictions of bloodletting. Whereas, many of the peacenik liberals I've known consider uberviolent programming (including graphic depictions of war) to be the REAL pornography.
Wonder where libertarians fall?
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