Meme and My Politics

[billroper]

I took the political quiz that rmeidaking posted and the results don't surprise me, although they might surprise some of you.

Centrist You scored 53% Personal Liberty and 51% Economic Liberty!

A centrist believes in moderate government intervention in both personal and economic matters. They tend to be somewhat ambiguous, as they may have the oppurtunity to pick the side of any group surrounding them on any given issue. They generally believe in a moderate social safety net and what they consider to be a balanced stance on personal liberty. Centrists tend to emphasize compromise and cooperation between partisan groups.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Personal You scored higher than 99% on Economic

Link: The Politics Test written by brainpolice on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

I blame that whole "nuance" thing, myself... :)

Comments

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Nuance, certainly. And there should have been a middle-ground, something like "neither agree nor disagree" ...

I got:
Neo-Liberal (centred between Left and State)
You scored 59% Personal Liberty and 32% Economic Liberty!
A neo-liberal believes in moderate government intervention on personal matters and moderate to high government intervention on economic matters. They believe in a social safety net or welfare state and try to balance personal liberty with safety or security. Some neo-liberals believe in more foreign intervention or war then most other leftists. Others are more like Centrist Democrats. More authoritarian-leaning Neo-liberals (such as personal 40/economic 30) are the result of a "fusion" between "old left" and "new right"

[daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm a centrist, too.
Some of the questions were badly written and I had no good answer for them. But that's how these things are.

GHR

[pheltzer.livejournal.com]

This desperately needed a middle of the road answer you know in case you neither agreed nor disagreed

[patoadam]

I'm Neo-Liberal: 54% Personal Liberty and 27% Economic Liberty!

We are one red diamond apart; the south-east side of your diamond is the north-east side of mine.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

I ended up as a neo-liberal, I'm guessing because there were some questions that I didn't think were really written well. (And being a philosopher, when it says something like "there are ethical reasons for believing X" my agreement does not imply endorsement of those reasons...which I'm betting the writers of the test didn't think about.)

And they need to learn how to spell "pharmaceutical".

[feinan.livejournal.com]

*nods* I would've liked a fence-sitting answer myself, especially for some of them. Anyway, this wasn't that big of a surprise to me...and probably not to anybody that knows me at all well: Civil Libertarian

You scored 80% Personal Liberty and 58% Economic Liberty!

A civil libertarian believes in little to no government intervention on personal matters and moderate government intervention on economic matters. As the name implies, a Civil Libertarian's main concern is with civil liberties - personal matters. They tend to be strongly opposed to war, police powers, victimless crimes, and foreign intervention. Civil Libertarians may tend to believe in a social safety net, but to a lesser extent then most leftists. Strong Civil Libertarians are somewhat inclined towards supporting capitalism as an economic system. A civil libertarian strongly believes in protecting personal liberty. They strongly support self-ownership and privacy.

[boogiebabe-smap.livejournal.com]

Just to be different, I'm a Statist. I scored 36% Personal Liberty and 28% Economic Liberty.
A statist believes in moderate to high government intervention in both personal and economic matters. They generally believe in a centralized state with a social safety net and laws restricting personal liberty. They tend to support war and foreign intervention. Extreme statists border on being totalitarians, while others lean towards being centrists.

Does it surprise anyone that I'm a Federal employee? BTW, I definitely am one who leans toward being a centrist. My diamond is directly down from Bill's.