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.
Took the quiz and the results are::
You are a far-right social moderate.
Right: 7.83, Authoritarian: 0.61
What do I win??
My Political Views
I am a right moderate social libertarian
Right: 5.34, Libertarian: 1.09
Political Spectrum Quiz
My Foreign Policy Views
Score: -5.02
Political Spectrum Quiz
My Culture War Stance
Score: 5.37
Political Spectrum Quiz
another flawed question : “49. When corporate interests become too powerful, the state should take action to ensure the public interest is served.”
It assumes that the state stepping in will serve the public interest rather than making those corporate interests even more powerful.
Apparently I’m the only one here who doesn’t think we need our soldiers in every God forsaken hell hole on planet earth, subject to question interpretation, of course.
Another thing. between a couple af questions, I said that America should not intervene anywhere unless to protect our own interests. So it put me down as someone who thinks America ‘should intervene around the world’.
My Political Views
I am a center-right moderate social authoritarian
Right: 1.35, Authoritarian: 2.58
Political Spectrum Quiz
What gives? This test essentially labeled me a slightly more conservative Scott Brown.
8.52 on foreign policy, 8.6 on social issues: Far Right social authoritarian.
Kinda surprises me. I thought I was more authoritarian than that.
Couldn’t post graph from mobile.
Cool
You are a center-right social authoritarian.Right: 2.67, Authoritarian: 3.6
14. If our leader meets with our enemies, it makes us appear weak.
15. We must use our military from time to time to protect our supply of oil, to avoid a national crisis.
30. It does not make sense to understand the motivations of terrorists because they are self-evidently evil.
33. It is wrong to question a leader in wartime.
36. Toppling enemy regimes to spread democracy will make the world a safer place.
44. It is not our place to condemn other cultures as backwards or barbaric.
45. When one group is slaughtering another group somewhere in the world, we have a responsibility to intervene.
Some of these are so laughably vague as to be almost impossible to answer. For example, private citizens should question their leaders all the times. However, the Speaker of the House shouldn't go to a country that sponsors terrorism and bash the President's foreign policy (Nancy in Syria).
I started to take the “test” and found the questions to be written in a way that grossly distorts the issues in question. It’s far too simplistic to be of any value.
I’m a far-right moderate social libertarian.
Far right moderate social libertarian here.
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