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Old 2005-10-27, 02:24 PM   #1
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I thought this had come up on the board before, but I searched and couldn't find anything.

Are you a hardcore populist libertarian with moderate conservative leanings? A moderately liberal authoritarian? Find out for sure...

http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/XPolitics/start.asp
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I ended up a Moderate Libertarian Conservative

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Old 2005-10-27, 02:35 PM   #3
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it says Im a "Centrist" whatever the hell that is
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I'm a "Moderate Libertarian Liberal"...



We should use something like this instead of voting. Just do a census every 4 years where everyone answers a bunch of questions about how they want the country run, then all the candidate's scores are matched against the US average, and the closest candidate wins.
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We should use something like this instead of voting. Just do a census every 4 years where everyone answers a bunch of questions about how they want the country run, then all the candidate's scores are matched against the US average, and the closest candidate wins.
Make it a large pool of candidates for each possible "demographic", or whatever you want to call it, with the winner being selected randomly from among that particular selected pool, and I'd be all for that. That's the only method that could eliminate business & special interest lobbying, simply because they couldn't know who would win by polling beforehand.
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Make it a large pool of candidates for each possible "demographic", or whatever you want to call it, with the winner being selected randomly from among that particular selected pool, and I'd be all for that. That's the only method that could eliminate business & special interest lobbying, simply because they couldn't know who would win by polling beforehand.
As stupid as it sounds, I think we'd probably come out ahead if we just randomly picked our leaders rather than our current process.
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Though, I've always thought of myself as slightly more libertarian then this suggests.
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Although it looks like they have a pretty straightforward graph. From what I was reading in the explaination I think this graph reflects my personal score more than my Economic score, but whever. I give more thought to free trade than abortion.


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Interesting.. so far JC is the only one completely out of the Moderate box.
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Interesting.. so far JC is the only one completely out of the Moderate box.
Yeah, I remember the days when I was young and still in school... you know, before the real world beat the idealism out of me.

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Yeah, I remember the days when I was young and still in school... you know, before the real world beat the idealism out of me.

JC's in the real world wern't you there when he cut the college hair?
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JC's in the real world wern't you there when he cut the college hair?
Um, he's in Atlanta going to school for some crazy-ass degree in rocket science of some sort!
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I think I've been the opposite of most people in the progression of my political leanings. I used to be ridiculously conservative when I was younger, say in high school.. now I've loosened up a lot and am pretty much in the middle in my old age. I guess that's the real world effect too, ideals from either the right or left get beaten out of you.
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I think I've been the opposite of most people in the progression of my political leanings. I used to be ridiculously conservative when I was younger, say in high school.. now I've loosened up a lot and am pretty much in the middle in my old age. I guess that's the real world effect too, ideals from either the right or left get beaten out of you.
To be honest, I think people's political views are directly influenced by the amount of money and/or power they have. If you're doing well, you're conservative... after all why change what's not broken, whereas if you're broke or powerless, well something has to change.

Apparently Austin, you're not making as much money as you thought you would!
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I think you nailed it...

Not much money: Check

Not much power: Check

No wonder I've gotten more liberal...
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I ended up a Moderate Libertarian Conservative
I predict that's where I'll be.....
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Cool, that's an interesting survey, with some good assumptions that make sense...here's my graph, good to see I'm a card-carrying member of the Libertarian party!

I scored as a "Moderate Libertarian"
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I'm still trying to wrap my head around what a "populist" would be.
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Hmmm, a Moderate Populist Conservative?

Actually, I found that quiz to be pretty biased towards Liberal-Libertarian. The wording and types of questions, along with the analysis style and undertones suggest that they weren't looking for answers to open questions. They use hot-button issues, but fail to include options on important details. Some of the giveaways were:

"Abortion is a Woman's Right" vs. taking both sides in the question, such as "Abortion: Woman's Right or Premeditated Murder?"
"Reduce use of coal, oil, & nuclear energy" --- apples and oranges, I say. Oil and coal have nothing in common with nucs except hot water!
"Immigration Helps Our Economy - Encourage It" --- What about legal immigration + assimilation vs. illegal/subversive activity?


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Actually, I found that quiz to be pretty biased towards Liberal-Libertarian. The wording and types of questions, along with the analysis style and undertones suggest that they weren't looking for answers to open questions. They use hot-button issues, but fail to include options on important details. Some of the giveaways were:

"Abortion is a Woman's Right" vs. taking both sides in the question, such as "Abortion: Woman's Right or Premeditated Murder?"
"Reduce use of coal, oil, & nuclear energy" --- apples and oranges, I say. Oil and coal have nothing in common with nucs except hot water!
"Immigration Helps Our Economy - Encourage It" --- What about legal immigration + assimilation vs. illegal/subversive activity?


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Good Points, I noticed a few of the questions glazed over issues, like the immigration one, it leaves out options. I think it does lean a little bit to one side, but...
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Hmmm, a Moderate Populist Conservative?

Actually, I found that quiz to be pretty biased towards Liberal-Libertarian. The wording and types of questions, along with the analysis style and undertones suggest that they weren't looking for answers to open questions. They use hot-button issues, but fail to include options on important details. Some of the giveaways were:

"Abortion is a Woman's Right" vs. taking both sides in the question, such as "Abortion: Woman's Right or Premeditated Murder?"
"Reduce use of coal, oil, & nuclear energy" --- apples and oranges, I say. Oil and coal have nothing in common with nucs except hot water!
"Immigration Helps Our Economy - Encourage It" --- What about legal immigration + assimilation vs. illegal/subversive activity?


Not fooled.
No one said it's scientific... however all the questions were the same for all of us, and I'd say the results are pretty much matching up to what I know about everyone's political views.
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Hmm.

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I'm still trying to wrap my head around what a "populist" would be.
I don't fully get the concept of a populist myself, since this is the first time I can recall ever encountering the term, but the good ol' dictionary sez, "supporter of ordinary people: an advocate of the rights and interests of ordinary people, for example, in politics or the arts."
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Um, he's in Atlanta going to school for some crazy-ass degree in rocket science of some sort!
Ya but it's grad school. Besides bitch, which one of us owns our own home? I've been a member of the Green Party since I could vote. It'll probably never change. I'm liberal socially and don't care economically because I believe I can make myself rich regardless.
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