Lets just go ahead and open this can of worms...

[Kevin]

yeah well get em in now because i am leaving in about a half hour for home and won't see anything until tomorrow morning :)

[Heidi]

I just wanna glomp you, Kevin. :) I mean that in a purely platonic way.

[Meen]

The stepping on one's own crank one is a good place to start, RA!

[Kevin]

hey - i need a glomp sometimes heidi

and no real damage from this thread yet. fire away TC

[Angie]

I think the fact that most of us are going "But! But!" to a lot of these questions proves that we're intelligent. I know that most people who live in my hometown, at the very least, would take a quiz like this out-right, rather than see the complexities in things.

I can't help but think that we are what we read in these cases, and most of us on goodreads might lean more towards distrusting the government because of the books we've read. I mean, what am I really supposed to think when I read statements like "People with a criminal history should not be able to vote"? I don't automatically think something like "so if you kill a person, you can't vote" and then agree/disagree with that, I think, "Well what is considered a "criminal history" and is this likely to prevent a regime change in the future by labeling former revolutionaries as criminals and thus allowing the state to remain stable and corrupt?"

My Political Views
I am a center-left social libertarian
Left: 2.42, Libertarian: 5.29

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[Félix]

Yay Angabel.

[Kevin]

yay?

[Nuri]

Is this the right thread?

No matter. My political views/demands:


So proud to be an American. : )

[Heidi]

"STOP. You're starting to scare George Orwell."

:)

[RandomAnthony]

Ha...I love that show, Nools...

[Donitello]

What show?

[Heidi]

I don't think there's a show out there called Animal Farm or 1984, or is there?

[Sally, la reina]

That took me a minute, too, Doni.

[[deleted user]]

OBAMA: Bring back the Bluth frozen banana

[Heidi]

Diana's banana babies are awesome.

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[Stephen]

My Political Views
I am a left moderate social libertarian
Left: 5.01, Libertarian: 2.74

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[Félix]

Not another one .... :)

[David]

My Political Views
I am a centrist social moderate
Left: 0.1, Libertarian: 0.4

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=-o

[Félix]

Cool.

[Wild for Wilde]

I think the way that quiz words things makes it a little biased towards one party....

[Wild for Wilde]

for example, it said news on the radio should be unbiased but what about TV news? they said radio bc the most popular radio shows are rush limbaugh and other republicans.

[Wild for Wilde]

"You are a centrist moderate social libertarian.
Right: 0.38, Libertarian: 1.44"

[Edina]

My Political Views
I am a center-left moderate social libertarian
Left: 2.36, Libertarian: 3.36

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[Heidi]

Someone should post a list of everyone's scores... and update it when someone new posts his/her results.

Any takers?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

My Political Views
I am a left moderate social libertarian
Left: 6.43, Libertarian: 3.46

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[Phil]

My Political Views
I am a left social libertarian
Left: 4.71, Libertarian: 4.01

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[Phoenix]

My Political Views
I am a center-left moderate social libertarian
Left: 2.54, Libertarian: 1.36

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[Auntie]

My Political Views
I am a left social libertarian
Left: 4.26, Libertarian: 4.56

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[Rebecca]

Well, apparently something went wrong with my pasting, but I'm in that same quadrant...

It's funny how so often the difference is not in opinion but application. Someone might think the same thing, but have it completely upside down politically. My ex, who manages one of the unemployment offices here was telling me the other day that all these people coming in complaining that their unemployment is running out are mad at Obama. It's all his fault. He kept explaining that this is something that depends on congress, and they just won't believe it. Just won't believe it! That's the kind of thing that makes me want to tear my hair out.

[Leslie]

Right centrist Libertarian here. That was fun.

[ms.petra]

My Political Views
I am a far-right moderate social libertarian
Right: 7.75, Libertarian: 2.65

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I knew that before I took the quiz! I am a TC black sheep.

[Jonathan]

You're not alone, Petra. I got an atypical result too.

But I'm not really sure what it means. Center-left authoritarian? Maybe I shouldn't have answered "strongly agree" to the statement "Everybody should eat their peas whether they like it or not, dammit."

My Political Views
I am a center-left social authoritarian
Left: 1.99, Authoritarian: 3.75

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[ms.petra]

maybe it means you are "the man"

[Jonathan]

Who knew?

[ms.petra]

I would be interested to see how the answers were scaled. I would guess from a left perspective. I would not say I am far right, but I did give answers that support the military and gun rights.

[Phil]

My thought was that the social questions ruled the day; those on abortion, religion, etc.

[ms.petra]

that too.

[Jammies]

My Political Views
I am a left moderate social libertarian
Left: 6.42, Libertarian: 3.46

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[Kristi]

My Political Views
I am a left social moderate
Left: 5.47, Libertarian: 0.02

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[Michele]

I am a left,moderate, social libertarian whatever that means.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Jonathan wrote: "You're not alone, Petra. I got an atypical result too.

But I'm not really sure what it means. Center-left authoritarian? Maybe I shouldn't have answered "strongly agree" to the statement "Everybo..."

That is an odd combination. So you believe in extending federal unemployment benefits but you feel that Wall Street CEOs should be executed without trials?

[Jonathan]

The chart doesn't lie.

[Félix]

Sheep lie.

[Joanne]

Aaag, I didn't know it was flat. I fell off the lower left corner.

[Kate]

My Political Views
I am a left social libertarian
Left: 6.97, Libertarian: 4.72

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I'm noticing I have a lot of company in my quadrant on this group.

[Kate]

Lobstergirl wrote: So you believe in extending federal unemployment benefits but you feel that Wall Street CEOs should be executed without trials?


I'm a left social libertarian but I can almost agree with that statement!

[janine]

My Political Views
I am a left social moderate
Left: 5.92, Libertarian: 0.86

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makes sense to me, though i didn't know i would be this far left.

[Ken]

I’m a left moderate social libertarian. Sounds so innocuous that I suppose I should enlist in Jaroslav Hasek’s famous Czech political party: The Party of Moderate Progress within the Bounds of the Law.

[Michele]

depends on whose laws.

[[deleted user]]

Compass:



You are a left moderate social libertarian.
Left: 3.54, Libertarian: 2.52


So can you exlain my result to me? I know nothing what so ever about politics.