Posted on 04/24/2005 1:36:24 PM PDT by CHARLITE
It is my belief that about half of the Americans who call themselves liberal do not hold the great majority of positions held by mainstream liberal institutions such as the New York Times editorial page, People for the American Way, and the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. So here is a test of this thesis to be given to anyone who believes he or she is a liberal. If you feel I have omitted a liberal position or have unfairly characterized any of them here, please email me. This is still a work in progress.
Thank you,
Dennis Prager
dennisprager@dennisprager.com
You say you are a liberal.
Do you believe the following?
1.Standards for admissions to universities, fire departments, etc. should be lowered for people of color.
2.Bilingual education for children of immigrants, rather than immersion in English, is good for them and for America.
3.Murderers should never be put to death.
4.During the Cold War, America should have adopted a nuclear arms freeze.
5.Colleges should not allow ROTC programs.
6.It was wrong to wage war against Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War.
7.Poor parents should not be allowed to have vouchers to send their children to private schools.
8.It is good that trial lawyers and teachers unions are the two biggest contributors to the Democratic Party.
9.Marriage should be redefined from male-female to any two people.
10.A married couple should not have more of a right to adopt a child than two men or two women.
11.The Boy Scouts should not be allowed to use parks or any other public places and should be prohibited from using churches and synagogues for their meetings.
12.The present high tax rates are good.
13.Speech codes on college campuses are good and American values are bad.
14.The Israelis and Palestinians are morally equivalent.
15.The United Nations is a moral force for good in the world, and therefore America should be subservient to it and such international institutions as a world court.
16.It is good that colleges have dropped hundreds of men's sports teams in order to meet gender-based quotas.
17.No abortions can be labeled immoral.
18.Restaurants should be prohibited by law from allowing customers to choose between a smoking and a non-smoking section.
19.High schools should make condoms available to students and teach them how to use them.
20.Racial profiling for terrorists is wrong -- a white American grandmother should as likely be searched as a Saudi young male.
21.Racism and poverty -- not a lack of fathers and a crisis of values -- are the primary causes of violent crime in the inner city.
22.It is wrong and unconstitutional for students to be told, "God bless you" at their graduation.
23.No culture is morally superior to any other.
Those are all liberal positions. How many of them do you hold?
Good list. I think Prager could use some help adding some environmental criteria. Agenda21 comes to mind.
I think he will find more people saying "yes" than he anticipated.
Very nice.
24. Do you think we should defund the armed forces as they have done in France and Canada?
I scored a big fat zero. I do not agree with 23 out of 23. I must not have been paying attention in class.
Uh-oh. I scored two. What should I do?
1.Standards for admissions to universities, fire departments, etc. should be lowered for minorities.
3.Murderers should never be put to death. many conservatives are against the death penalty as well
22.It is wrong and unconstitutional for students to be told, "God bless you" at their graduation. They really don't want the word "God" mentioned anywhere in schools
This was the first time I've ever scored a Zero and been happy about it.
24. Do you think patchouli oil is a substitute for Right Guard?
I have pretty much come to the conclusions that "liberals" do not actually have any guiding principles at all. Guiding principles can lead you to any of the forms of conservatism, or perhaps to socialism, but not to liberalism, which means apparently nothing more that a desire to inadvertantly increase government power and responosibility in the service of foolish and random do-goodism.
I got zero too. Hurrah.
Excellent addition. Should have been part of Prager's list, but then theoretically, the list could be endless. No?
Char :)
It would be interesting to post this down at the DUmp. I can't do it myself as I am apparently much to stupid for such difficult tasks having scored a zero on this test.
to = too (DUh)
Technically, males are a minority.
It it time for males to rise up against the female chauvanist sows!!
Repent
I wish I could disagree with you.
Got my EyE on em.. (finger by left eye)...
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