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The political test.
| You are a Social Liberal (83% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (16% permissive) You are best described as a:
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Using the power of government to take wealth from those who produce it (e.g. my family) and give it to those who do not produce it. That's socialism.
Count me out.
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ETA: Example - question 1 is "The government should subsidize struggling museums, theaters, and artists." I put Strongly Agree on that, because I feel strongly about museums and theatre being educational and I feel that that's a HUGE priority - we need to educate the populace way the hell more than it is, and that's a good use of taxpayer dollars. Subsidizing every individual artist that comes along? Not so much.
But this quiz is equating museums and theatre with arts/entertainment, rather than arts/education, and puts me squarely in the PERMISSIVE section for that answer.
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I guess it would be rude of me to point out that social liberalism hasn't worked out too well in practice, either... (- __ -);
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(I land on the libertarian/capitalist borderline, not that anyone would have trouble guessing)
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See that (A) in the upper right? My point is smack dab on that.
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The thing is, in practice I'm more fiscally conservative than this quiz produces. It has something to do with the particular questions it asks and the way I interpret them. I'm pretty much like my mother: socially liberal, and fiscally moderate-to-conservative.
ETA: Example - question 1 is "The government should subsidize struggling museums, theaters, and artists." I put Strongly Agree on that, because I feel strongly about museums and theatre being educational and I feel that that's a HUGE priority - we need to educate the populace way the hell more than it is, and that's a good use of taxpayer dollars. Subsidizing every individual artist that comes along? Not so much.
But this quiz is equating museums and theatre with arts/entertainment, rather than arts/education, and puts me squarely in the PERMISSIVE section for that answer.
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So for me it was an accurate quiz. I really do belong up there in that area. That's me, your friendly neighborhood anarcho-capitalist.
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The scientific community runs into this constantly: people who have no clue what research really is who call for funding to be slashed because they can see no immediate practical use for whatever it is being researched. And unfortunately it's a vital part of scientific and technological progress that the big leaps forward that benefit people are often made because someone connects the dots between the little bits of knowledge that previously had no immediate benefit. And a general populace that does not understand that, which is voting on science and technology matters and funding scares the hell out of me.
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Although I do admit it makes me shudder to think about the William Gates Museum of Natural History.
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(one day I will actually go and read Marx et al and figure out why these quizzes keep landing me there)
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Most of my LJ friends who have taken this thing turn up in roughly the same area. I was a little higher up (just over the line into Dem territory) than many, possibly because my line of work makes me slightly more cynical on the effectiveness of government in running things ... .
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