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My political profile

By evolvingthoughts on December 5, 2006.

This is one of the few tests that gives me a ranking I agree with. Even if the questions are too simplistic and the alternatives not exclusive.



Your Political Profile:
Overall: 15% Conservative, 85% Liberal
Social Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal
Personal Responsibility: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Fiscal Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Defense and Crime: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
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Your Political Profile:

Out vile (conservative) spot!

Conservatives Democrats vs. Liberal Republicans, etc.

Question below about the details of what conservative Democrats or liberal Republicans might believe, etc. I decided to look for a few questions.

Hmm.

Overall: 10% Conservative, 90% Liberal
Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Personal Responsibility: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Fiscal Issues: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Defense and Crime: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

It's reasonably accurate although the options were pretty poxy.

I got 100% liberal on everything except personal responsibility (75%) and defense and crime (75%).
However - most of the questions have answers which are not mutually exclusive, and I often felt I was making a lesser of two evils choice; e.g:

# Affirmative action
* Gives minorities and women a level playing field
* Is unfair, outdated, and hurts those with the most merit

I don't believe affirmative action levels the playing field. It can only 'level the playing field' where the benefit lost due to discrimination is some clear-cut easy to regulate benefit, like getting a particular job, or getting into a particular school. It can't help people whose confidence in themselves has been damaged or destroyed due to prejudice. It can't help people who are so poor they never get the opportunities regulated by affirmative action. It can't cure the trauma of prejudice-driven abuse. I believe that we're better off with affirmative action than without, I believe it makes life less grotesquely unfair, but I don't believe it 'levels the playing field'.

Other questions I simply didn't understand, e.g.:

# Some people have less luck than others
* False
* True

Is it asking if some people are less fortunate, even after 'merit' is accounted for? Or is it asking about some kind of superstition?

And what about questions like this:

# Everyone has a right to health care, even if they can't afford it
* False
* True

I picked true, but what I actually believe, is that as long infectious diseases are life threatening, only a fool would want his neighbor's health to go unlooked-after.