Posted on 01/07/2011 7:21:49 AM PST by OneVike
By now, you all know that I have a wide range of topics that I find interesting enough to share with you. Usually, the things that I choose come from my searching for other topics. In this case I was looking for information on dogs for a few articles I will post sometime this weekend. In the process, I stumbled upon this graph that took me to a site with a quiz that will help people to understand where they stand on the political scale. So I took the quiz and learned where I stand compared to the average person who took the quiz. It's 
my guess that most of the people who have taken this quiz are much, much more liberal then I am. I say so because most of the evidence shows that Americans are a lot more conservative than this site's average says. The problem is that the site can only get an average from those who actually respond to their quiz.
Now, those of you who follow my postings most likely already know where you stand on the political or social scale. However, have you ever really taken a test like this to see where you stand? Sadly, it's such tests as this one that have a limited amount of input, along with surveys by the MSM, that most political pundits use when they report that a majority of Americans are either moderate or liberal. Thus they claim that the real power and influence is somewhere in the middle with the Independent voter. It's my firm belief that if American voters took a quiz like this one, they would be surprised to find that they fall somewhere on the right side of the political scale. Even those who normally vote for a leftist Democrat would be shocked to learn that they actually have more in common with a conservative Republican than they do with the Democrat or liberal Republican politician many of them vote for.
It really should not shock anyone though. All you have to do is listen to what Democrats say when they are running for election. They are all conservatives, until they actually get elected and start to govern. Then they are anything but a conservative, and the MSM does all they can to give them cover by keeping the masses preoccupied with what Lindsey Lohan, Brad Pitt, or Mel Gibson are doing. If they told the truth about what they believed when they were running for office, you and I know very well that they would never get elected.
The Democrats know that the vast majority of Americans are more conservative than the Democrats are. That's why Democrats and the MSM consistently lie to you during their campaigns about being conservative. Go ahead and take the Political Spectrum Quiz to see where you stand. For those who normally vote for Democrats, maybe next time you will be more informed and then vote accordingly.
I will take it again from home I bet I’m far right conservative with some small libertarian leanings
I'm also a CC holder and use it.
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| My Political Views I am a far-right moderate social libertarian Right: 9.37, Libertarian: 3.28  |
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| My Foreign Policy Views Score: 5.33  |
My Culture War Stance Score: 4.46  |
Right Social Libertarian here. Don’t tell the moderators.
One problem, though: there's a difference between whether something should ever be done, and whether it should be done now, under current conditions.
There are policies that I could understand a country taking up when things get desperate or difficult that I would oppose if someone tried to impose them now.
I suspect libertarians are people who would oppose under all circumstances what they oppose now, while others can see some wisdom or prudence in never saying never.
Now ‘We’ can see who has been selling out the country to the democrat progressive scum! This keeps up, I’m bringing the guillotine out of mothballs ...
I ended up 1 square exactly below you.
I must have mellowed, because a few years ago I was just as Right but south of the “X” Axis.
The leftists look to be mostly on the libertarian side of the chart and I suppose they answer the questions that way but their preferred methods of attaining and maintaining that libertarian condition are pretty hard core authoritarian. You can’t get to that place by riding that bus. The chart needs to be done with an eye to methods rather than goals. The goals are dependent on the methods.
I’m not sure what to say.
We can't let them set the bar.
No, there are two of us.
The results also show that conservatives and libertarians score pretty closely. I’ve always thought that those “conservatives” who keep attacking libertarians were fullofit and counter-productive.
Yep. I think my actual position is quite a bit to the right of where the chart put me and it moved me based on foreign policy. Apparently the makers of the quiz listened to propaganda instead of reading history, which shows most wars are caused by the left, no matter how much they protest otherwise.
The questions have a liberal bias.
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