What is your Political Philosophy?

[Flynmonkie]

We were discussing different views in another thread so I am posting this because it always seems to be interesting to figure out just exactly what camp we fall into.:)

This test might give you a good idea of where you are at on political issues.

http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/XPolitics/start.asp

Last time I checked I was a middle left (on the line) populist. But I will take it again in the morning.

(there are also several other tests here you might take a look around!)

[Joykins]

Says I am a moderate liberal. Which is incidentally how I'd classify myself if asked.

[Flynmonkie]

I played around with it a bit and found myself stuck there when I changed my answer on star wars and went to a moderate liberal populist? I keep hanging out on the line!;)

[mlqurgw]

I am a hardcore conservative. I always thought I would make Rush Limbaugh look like a liberal. ;)

[mesue]

How do I answer these? They're so loaded :doh: Or, I'm so tired :sleep:
I tried, I really did.


Individual rights Where do you stand on these questions of individual rights? http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/quizeng/qe_images/b_star.gifClick on the question for more information!

http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/qe_images/border.gifhttp://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/qe_images/trans.gifhttp://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/qe_images/trans.gifhttp://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/qe_images/thin_border.gifAbortion is a Woman's Right (http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/VoteMatch/qn1.asp)
http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/qe_images/thin_border.gifRequire Companies to Hire More Women/Minorities (http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/VoteMatch/qn2.asp)http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/qe_images/thin_border.gif
Sexual Orientation Protected by Civil Rights Laws (http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/VoteMatch/qn3.asp)http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/qe_images/thin_border.gif
Permit Prayer In Public Schools (http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/VoteMatch/qn4.asp)http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/qe_images/thin_border.gifhttp://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/qe_images/thin_border.gif
A woman has a right to kill her baby, it just isn't the right thing to do, nor does it honor God. Is it forgivable? Absolutely!
Comapnies should hire those who are qualified. If I, as a woman, am more qualified for the job, then sweet!
If, by sexual orientation, they mean homosexual, well ... we all have a "right" to sexual sin. Some do it by practicing homosexuality, some fornicate, some adulterate. None are ranked by God, all are covered for those that believe Jesus' shed blood covers the sin.
Allow prayer back in school? As if it left! "Oh Lord, please help me with my exam!" "Oh Lord, I'm so sick. Please don't let me be pregnant!"
The Bible used to be a textbook in public school.
So, I don't know what I am. :eek: I can't rightly answer the questions right now.
:bow: But, I do love the Lord and His word.

[Flynmonkie]

The Bible used to be a textbook in public school.


This really irks me; some schools do not even have one version of the Bible in their library. One of the most important well-documented historical books to say the least and it is not even available for study of language alone! A few schools have it here but recently I thought about going on a bend of complaining about this. One of my classmates admitted his public college used it in their literature class - right on! :thumbsup:

[aReformedPatriot]

Personal Score10%
Personal Score: This measures how much you believe government should intervene in people's personal lives. Personal issues include health, love, recreation, prayer and other activities that are not measured in dollars.
A high score (above 60%) means you believe in tolerance for different people and lifestyles.
A low score (below 40%) means you believe that your standards of morality & safety should be enforced by government. Economic Score41%
Economic Score
This measures how much you believe government should intervene in people's economic lives. Economic issues include retirement funding, budget allocations, and taxes.
A high score (above 60%) means you believe in personal responsibility for your financial matters, and that free-market competition is better for people than central planning by the government.
A low score (below 40%) means you believe that a good society is best achieved by the government redistributing wealth. You believe that government's purpose is to decide which programs are good for society, and how much should be spent on each program. Hmmm.

I am a Populist Conservative

Populism is a political (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics) philosophy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy) or rhetorical (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric) style that holds that the common person (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_man)'s interests are oppressed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppression) or hindered by the elite (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite) in society (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society), and that the instruments of the state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State) need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and used for the benefit and advancement of the people as a whole. Hence a populist is one who is perceived to craft his or her rhetoric as appeals to the economic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics), social, and common sense (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_sense) concerns of average people. Most scholarship on populism since 1980 has discussed it as a rhetorical style that can be used to promote a variety of political ideologies. Leaders of populist movements in recent decades have been both on the Left and Right.

[arunma]

I am a Left-Leaning Populist, and I fall here:

http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/map/s030_010.gif

That's strange. I've always thought of myself as conservative. Oh well.

[aReformedPatriot]

I am a Left-Leaning Populist, and I fall here:

http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/map/s030_010.gif

That's strange. I've always thought of myself as conservative. Oh well.

Today you have become my enemy. You are practically the antithesis of everything I hold dear; I challenge you to a duel.

http://www.talking-bear.com/images/Duel%20personalities.jpg


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[newbeliever02072005]

Today you have become my enemy. You are practically the antithesis of everything I hold dear; I challenge you to a duel.

http://www.talking-bear.com/images/Duel%20personalities.jpg



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OOOO.....OOOOOO!!!! Can I watch??? ^_^ ^_^ ^_^













**(ok, me thinks i need to find better entertainment!!!)**

[MrJim]

Moderate Libertarian Conservative
http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/map/s050_060.gif
Libertarian surrounded by populists....surely I can't be the only one?

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Pronunciation: 'pä-py&-list
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin populus the people
1 : a member of a political party claiming to represent the common people; especially often capitalized : a member of a United States political party formed in 1891 primarily to represent agrarian interests and to advocate the free coinage of silver and government control of monopolies
2 : a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people
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Pronunciation: "li-b&r-'ter-E-&n, -'te-rE-
Function: noun
1 : an advocate of the doctrine of free will
2 a : a person who upholds the principles of individual liberty (http://www.webster.com/dictionary/liberty) especially of thought and action b capitalized : a member of a political party advocating libertarian principles
- libertarian adjective
- lib·er·tar·i·an·ism http://www.webster.com/images/audio.gif (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:popWin%28%27/cgi-bin/audio.pl?libert02.wav=libertarianism%27%29) /-E-&-"ni-z&m/ noun

I thought I would have shaken off the libertarian tag by now. That first definition makes me wonder if calvinists can be libertarian:D

When I ran with the survivalists and WNs (all those years ago) being libertarian was considered the only viable political option. Republican/Democrat was (is) considered different edges on the same sword.

[No, not all libertarians are White Nationals]

Still, I would probably align with libertarians before any other party if I awoke one day with some freakish fascination of immersing myself into the worldly cesspool of amerikan politics.

Still, I came in about as close to center as possible...does that make me more neutral than anything?

[Flynmonkie]

Menno, your a centerist aren't you? Or did it tell you you are a Libertarian ?


Pronunciation: "li-b&r-'ter-E-&n, -'te-rE-
Function: noun
1 : an advocate of the doctrine of free will
2 a [SIZE=1][FONT=Arial Black]I thought I would have shaken off the libertarian tag by now. That first definition makes me wonder if calvinists can be libertarian:D



^_^

You know I don't understand why the definition is that I believe in peoples personal freedoms without regulation? I find this to be a bit odd?

2 : a believer in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people

Does this mean I believe people make the right choices or that I believe I should allow them the choice to make?

From my understanding most Midwesterners are populists.

I also thought that if you are not classical Libertarian you are Conservative (same camp)?

[MrJim]

"Ayn Rand couldn't stand me....so she banned me"

-Kid Rock


:cool:

[Imblessed]

I'm centrist leaning toward populist.

It told me I was a centrist....the little red dot was right in the middle down close to populist.


whatever that means...... :)

[Imblessed]

http://www.ontheissues.org/quizeng/map/s040_040.gif






this is what I got the next time I took it...a few minutes later and it called me a Moderate Liberal Populist....which is strange, because the dot's in the exact same spot as last time and it said I was a Centrist.



Centrist is how I've described myself before.....

[Dmckay]

Interest approach to defining a person's political positions. I agree wit Mesue that the way some of these questions are worded and or graded by the program make some of them kind of iffy as to where their bias is affecting outcome.

I took the test twice to see if there would be much of a difference amd came out the same both times. I find their lumping of different groups according to Personal and Economic questions interesting, especially when you consider their views of low v high scores for each. A high personal score means you are more tolerant, but a low personal score indicates your desire to force your standards of morality on others.

This wording seems to indicate more of a Liberal thinking in the weighting of the answers and outcome of the questions. But then if you read the breakdown regarding the economic questions it seems almost the opposite. A high score means you believe in personal responsibility financially and a free-market economy. However a low score economically is defined as almost classical socialism.

It is difficult to pin down where they are coming from politically. Especially reading their purpose statement: Our mission is to provide non-partisan information for voters in the Presidential election, so that votes can be based on issues rather than on personalities and popularity. Most groups that claim to be non-Partisan are usually just the opposite. Considering the dichotomy of their grouping of results, maybe they do strive to be neutral.

Anyhow, both times I scored as a Libertarian-Leaning Conservative which surprised me somewhat. Like mlqurgw I consider myself more of a conservative. I was a long-time Republican who has left the Republican rolls because of the the tax and spend views of the current crop of Republican congressmen and President. As far as I'm concerned the only role of government is to protect the lives and safety of its people.

[arunma]

Today you have become my enemy. You are practically the antithesis of everything I hold dear; I challenge you to a duel.

http://www.talking-bear.com/images/Duel%20personalities.jpg



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Well, we are both populists. If you must shoot me, can you just wound me a bit?

[aReformedPatriot]

Well, we are both populists. If you must shoot me, can you just wound me a bit?

^_^ Alright, alright.... Since we are both populist I'll call the duel off. And don't tell me you'd have given up that easily. I don't want none of that one sided sissy shootin'.

[MrJim]

^_^ Alright, alright.... Since we are both populist I'll call the duel off. And don't tell me you'd have given up that easily. I don't want none of that one sided sissy shootin'.

Duelin' Baptists...:cool:

[arunma]

Duelin' Baptists...:cool:

It's an update on Crusadin' Christians.

[Justin The Baptist]

Libertarian-Leaning Conservative.

Not a big suprise.

Personal Score: 25%
Economic Score: 85%

[Flynmonkie]

Still, I would probably align with libertarians before any other party if I awoke one day with some freakish fascination of immersing myself into the worldly cesspool of amerikan politics.

Still, I came in about as close to center as possible...does that make me more neutral than anything?


I checked again in class about these and modern times explanation. What he said was
Libertarians tend to say "I can do it myself. They want to keep their money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarians

Liberal and Conservatives are traditional definitions

Populists, (such as myself) are the ones that develop for the good of all. Such as it was the populists that were the organizers and driving force of the land grant college, the secret ballot etc.. They are the ones that get together and say Ok, we need a road, school etc.. Lets build it.
Populism is a political philosophy or rhetorical style that holds that the common person is oppressed by the "elite" in society, and that the instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and used for the benefit and advancement of the people as a whole. The ideal projected by populism is that of reaching out to ordinary people, talking about their economic and social concerns, and appealing to their common sense. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populist

I find it interesting that when I read the definitions through wikipedia it seems I could understand a libertarian perspective too….

This is just coming from my professor don't kill the messenger!;)

[ZiSunka]

Moderate liberal populist.

What's a populist?

[Flynmonkie]

Populist---> From what I understand most midwesterners or midusa are commonly populist of one sort or another. Here is what I have:

I checked again in class about these and modern times explanation. What he said was
Libertarians tend to say "I can do it myself. They want to keep their money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarians

Liberal and Conservatives are traditional definitions

Populists, (such as myself) are the ones that develop for the good of all. Such as it was the populists that were the organizers and driving force of the land grant college, the secret ballot etc.. They are the ones that get together and say Ok, we need a road, school etc.. Lets build it.
Populism is a political philosophy or rhetorical style that holds that the common person is oppressed by the "elite" in society, and that the instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and used for the benefit and advancement of the people as a whole. The ideal projected by populism is that of reaching out to ordinary people, talking about their economic and social concerns, and appealing to their common sense. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populist

I find it interesting that when I read the definitions through wikipedia it seems I could understand a libertarian perspective too….

This is just coming from my professor don't kill the messenger!;)