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.
Ditto...
#14 is dumb. For example meeting with powerful adversaries, on our own terms does not make us look weak. Meeting with 3rd rate dictators, who spew anti-Americanism, and all other types of lunacy, without conditions makes us look pathetically weak, and elevates the status of the dictators.
#30 depends on the terrorists. If it is a group that has a specific, possibly attainable, and perhaps reasonable goal, it might be helpful to know. If their only goal is to conquer the world in the name of allah and kill all the infidels who resist, (like Al Quaeda an the "Palestinians") it is useless.
#36 depends upon the regime and what will replace it. Sadly, some tyrannical regimes provide more international stability than what would replace them.
#45 depends upon many practical factors. Will our intervention stop the slaughter? How many American lives will it cost? Are the “slaughtered” simply the losers who would have slaughtered the other guys if they had won?
Me too (I thought I was the only one here)
My Political Views
I am a center-right moderate social libertarian
Right: 1.78, Libertarian: 1.62
Political Spectrum Quiz
My Foreign Policy Views
Score: 0.91
Political Spectrum Quiz
My Culture War Stance
Score: 0.14
Political Spectrum Quiz
And despite the criticisms of the questions (criticisms which I share), this is the sweet spot where I seem to end up on all these quizzes
My Political Views
I am a right moderate social authoritarian
Right: 6.95, Authoritarian: 2.11
My Foreign Policy Views
Score: 7.15
My Culture War Stance
Score: 6.54
Thanks for the ping!
:) Twice. The first time I took it I was labeled a far right social libertarian.
Right: 6.26, Libertarian: 0.72
Ok...
My Political Views
I am a far-right social libertarian
Right: 9.45, Libertarian: 6.11
Political Spectrum Quiz
A lot of those questions are a more subjective than other tests like this I've taken. Still, no surprises...
Well, as center punched as your chart looks, I can see why you couldn't decide if you were going to post that.
I think topleft square is communist square and bottomleft square is hippie square. Democrats, who took this quiz, seem to be mostly in hippie square.
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