Are You a Deplorable? Take This Quiz To Find Out

Of Two Minds ^ | 12-18-2017 | Charles Hugh Smith

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Charles Hugh Smith
December 18, 2016

Regardless of your ethnicity, class or religion, if you perceive the institutions that govern American life as corrupted, riddled with favoritism and spin or as broken, you're a Deplorable.

Are you a Deplorable? The answer might surprise you. Take this short quiz to find out.

1. If you agree with this characterization of American Elites: "The self-satisfied cosmopolitan culture that sprang up among the affluent 20% or so of the industrial world’s population, who became convinced that the temporary ascendancy of policies that favored their interests was not only permanent but self-evidently right and just."(The Fifth Side of the Triangle The Archdruid Report)

You're a Deplorable.

2. If you question whether globalization is actually in the national interest:You're a Deplorable.

3. If you question whether endless wars of choice, drone strikes and foreign interventions that cost the lives of countless civilians are actually in the national interest: You're a Deplorable.

4. If you see the major institutions of American life as corrupt, ineffective, and blatantly favoring the financial/social elites: You're a Deplorable.

5. If you think it's wrong that some immigrants (the illegal ones) get to "jump the queue" ahead of the millions of legal immigrants who have waited patiently for years and paid the costs of following the rules: You're a Deplorable.

6. If you see the concentration of media ownership as a threat to democracy:

You're a Deplorable.

7. If you think the War on Drugs that's imprisoned millions of young men is actually a War on the American People, a war that was prosecuted for the entire 24 long years of the presidencies of Bill Clinton, G.W. Bush and Barack Obama: You're a Deplorable.

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[gunnyg]

Re

Dick.Gaines: Deplorable AMERICAN!

aka: Gunny G

Semper PRESIDENT TRUMP!

++++++++++

[gunnyg]

Addendum:
NO AINOs!
;)
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[cyclotic]

I’m as deplorable as can be, but

I don’t have a problem with targeted drone strikes enacted against those who would plot to kill us.

I think the
“war on Drugs” could be handled better, but the drug abuse problem in this country is out of control and needs to be stopped. This will require strict enforcement.

This guy’s list sounds more like a libertarian wish list disguised as conservatism.

[central_va]

I can’t agree with #7 so am I “kinda deplorable”?

[Carthego delenda est]

“This guy’s list sounds more like a libertarian wish list disguised as conservatism.”

There’s always that dead giveaway.

[VTenigma]

I was a deplorable way before it was cool.

[COBOL2Java]

This guy’s list sounds more like a libertarian wish list disguised as conservatism.

Charles Hugh Smith is a contributor for the Mises Institute (https://mises.org/about-mises), a Libertarian think tank.

You accurately caught it.

[Mafe]

Deplorable and proud of it!

[cyclotic]

Thanks. I didn’t even read who wrote the “quiz.”

[papertyger]

Are you suggesting William F. Buckley wasn’t a true conservative?

[trebb]

There were lots of “Deplorables” T-Shirts at Trump’s rally in Mobile on Saturday.

[Responsibility2nd]

I think the
“war on Drugs” could be handled better, but the drug abuse problem in this country is out of control and needs to be stopped. This will require strict enforcement.

This guy’s list sounds more like a libertarian wish list disguised as conservatism.

 

 

[GailA]

Don’t need a quiz, just being Pro Life, Pro Gun, Pro Constitution, Pro Police, Pro Military and a CCW carrier makes me one. One who thinks all 3 Clintoons and DUMBOS belong in GITMO for the rest of their lives for treason.

[Responsibility2nd]

I wonder if the author/blogger is black.

This is the kind of rhetoric we often hear. As an excuse for the over representation of blacks in our prisons.

[Responsibility2nd]

Yes.

[Noumenon]

As if I had to take a quiz.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Yes I’m a proud “deplorable”.

*I loathe illegal aliens (and most immigrants)
*I despise our evil gov’t and all of it’s programs and agencies
*I believe there is no such thing as “A Palestinian State”
*I work hard and wish to keep all of my hard earned money

And lastly and probably worthy of a death sentence:
*I’m a Christian who believes in Christ and all other religions are seeds of Satan.

Sue me!

[rktman]

“This will require strict enforcement.” Probably why more and more states are legalizing pot so they can focus on “real” drugs and not just the recreational kind? LOL!, kinda. Just passed in NV and a couple of other states. Guess we’ll see how it plays out. On the Interstate we’ll have to watch for people going 20 mph that think they’re cooking along at 100.

I am deplorable. Oh, and disgusting too.

[Robert DeLong]

Well the odds were that I, and the majority of others in this country, were going to be tested as deplorable since the deplorable make up 80% of the population.

However, that means the deplorable voted for both candidates in this election. While all the non deplorable voted for the one party they always vote for, regardless of who that candidate is.

So deplorable has no relation to ideology, other than Trump supporters being labeled as such by one consistent loser known as Hillary Rotten Rodham Clinton. She nonetheless, still sees those from a class status below hers as deplorable, albeit a useful deplorable.