[shaggy eel]

,,, "often in the absence of any real problem" - BINGO!!! Design your own crisis. Thanx for this and the link Dan - I'll get into it.

Regards

[Dan Day]

This is also worth checking out: The world's smallest political quiz.

It gives a quick, intuitive feel for the difference between liberals, conservatives, authoritarians, libertarians, and centrists.

People get confused a lot because they try to fit complex concepts onto one-dimensional maps (liberal/conservative, or left/right, or good/evil, etc.), when often the situation consists of more than one "variable". As this link shows, political views are more clearly understood when viewed on a two-dimensional map than a one-dimensional one.