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PoliticsMatchYour Political PhilosophyThe below is a way of thinking about your political philosophy by dividing your PoliticsMatch answers into "personal" and "economic" questions. It is only a theory - please take it with a grain of salt!
Your Score You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions: | ||
| Personal Score | 48% | |
| Economic Score | 72% | |
Personal Questions: Liberals and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while conservatives and populists agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers. | Where You Fit In Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy. Based on the above score, you are a Libertarian Conservative . | |||||
| Personal Score This measures how much you believe government should intervene in people's personal lives. Personal issues include health, love, recreation, prayer and other activities that are not measured in dollars.
Economic Score This measures how much you believe government should intervene in people's economic lives. Economic issues include retirement funding, budget allocations, and taxes.
ExamplesThe chart below indicates how four "hard-core" political philosophers would answer the questions. From this example, you can see how you fit in with each philosophy. Your answers are on the left.
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| Personal Issues | You | Hard-core Liberal | Hard-core Libertarian | Hard-Core Conservative | Hard-Core Populist |
| Abortion Is a Woman's Right |  | | |  | |
| Sexual Orientation Protected By Civil Rights Law | | | | | |
| Teach Family Values in Public Schools |  | | | | |
| Death Penalty | | | | | |
| Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws |  | | | | |
| Drug Use Is Immoral: Enforce Laws Against It | | | | | |
| Allow Churches To Provide Welfare Services | | | | | |
| The Patriot Act harms civil liberties |  | | | | |
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| Economic Issues | You | Hard-core Liberal | Hard-core Libertarian | Hard-Core Conservative | Hard-Core Populist |
| Require Companies To Hire More Women/Minorities | | | | | |
| More Federal Funding For Health Coverage | | | | | |
| Privatize Social Security | | | | | |
| Replace coal and oil with alternatives | | | | | |
| Decrease overall taxation of the wealthy | | | | | |
| Illegal immigrants earn citizenship | | | | | |
| Support and Expand Free Trade | | | | | |
| Replace US troops with UN in Iraq | | | | | |
| You | Hard-core Liberal | Hard-core Libertarian | Hard-Core Conservative | Hard-Core Populist | |
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| Issues Not Counted In Philosophy | You | Hard-core Liberal | Hard-core Libertarian | Hard-Core Conservative | Hard-Core Populist |
| Absolute Right To Gun Ownership | | | | | |
| Parents Choose Schools Via Vouchers | | | | | |
| More Spending On Armed Forces | | | | | |
| Stricter limits on political campaign funds | | | | | |
| You | Hard-core Liberal | Hard-core Libertarian | Hard-Core Conservative | Hard-Core Populist | |
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Final Notes To ensure balance among political viewpoints, we arranged the wording of the questions so that half the time, the answer involving more government is answered by "support", and half the time by "oppose." Hence, each of the "hard core" philosophers would choose "support" for 3 or 4 of the Personal questions and for 3 or 4 of the Economic questions. There are four questions which are not counted in your political philosophy. Those questions do not fit this theory -- for example, Democrats typically oppose unrestricted gun ownership, while a 'hard core liberal' would support it on grounds of the government not intervening in a personal issue. These omissions ensure that the theoretical definitions match with current-day politics. Many of these statements cross over the line between personal issues and economic issues. And many people might answer what we call a "Personal" issue based on economic reasoning. But we have tried to arrange a series of questions which separates the way you think about government activities in these two broad scales. Political Map and some content from Advocates for Self-Government.
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8 comments:
hmmmm... I actually thought that you would have broken 50% or higher on your personal score. I am a tad disappointed in you.
Personal score is pretty sharply divided. I have no opinion on the 3 strikes laws as this presents some very complex legal issues which can not be legislated. The drug use issue is tinged with the word immoral in the phrasing. That alone is enough for me to stay away from it. Drug use is a personal problem - like alcohol abuse. It needs to be dealt with in that context. The legal defense has more to do with the greater harm to the public.
As for the Patriot Act, there are no cases of civil rights violations which have been affrimed by the courts.
Where did you score?
left leaning liberal, naturally! Yet, many of my responses were not far off from yours, with the exception of my fears about the possible mis-use of the patriot act (and that every time I have returned from the UK, they have chosen to go through and mess up MY luggage!) and probably privatizing social security and national health care, which, quite frankly, I would not be living without right now....(oh yes, I found a t-shirt in Rehoboth yesterday which said "the liver is evil and it must be destroyed". I am buying it for Rebecca....)
In light of the recent political controversy, I feel I must insist on an answer - Do you swear on a Holy Book (Bible, Tenakh, Quo ran, etc) that you were no coached in any way prior to answering the questions, and most important, that you remained within the "Cone Of Silence" throughout the entire period in question?
I will freely admit that I was not in that church at the time, there was not cone of silence used, and I was in the limo with my handlers the whole time....
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... Handlers! ahhhhahhhahh!!!!
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