But wait a second, I saw you post your score on that thread about the libertarian quiz. You scored a lot more libertarian than I did, both economically and socially. I notice that the Hapsburgs would not have scored so high:
"progress is both inevitable and desirable"
The Habsburgs disagreed. They suspected that when man goes one step forward in one area, he invariably ends up going three or four steps back in another."majority rule and freedom of the press are intrinsically moral"
The Habsburgs certainly did not think so; they knew that, for example, majority support for peddling heroin to primary-schoolers does not make such peddling justifiable. They nowhere needed our own experiences to teach them that phrases like `freedom of the press' are meaningless even in theory, and in practice are a mere excuse for plutocrats to indulge their own and their customers' pornographic fantasies without limit.Habsburg rulers' public utterances, few enough in number compared to the verbal dysentery that afficts American and Australian leaders, dealt with the very concepts that most grate on intellectual, and especially liberal, nerves. The Habsburgs favoured, not an interminable bill of rights, but a clearly defined set of reciprocal duties; not the brotherhood of men, but the fatherhood of God. They knew that there has never been any such thing in human civilisation as a classless society, and that there never will be. Their religion taught them that social inequality was not something to be ashamed of, but something that God had rejoiced in ever since He preferred Abel to Cain.
Actually, I scored off in the economic freedom/social conservativism corner of that quiz. I am more an economic libertarian, but an extreme social conservative.