So I am a Right Social Moderate? Hmmm, that is not quite how I would describe myself. In any case I found the quiz interesting. Go here to take it.
Political Spectrum Quiz
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Interesting survey. I was a little surprised. I am a centrist social authoritarian.Left: 0.46, Authoritarian: 3.62 My score:
Libertarian:
Foreign Policy: 1.48
Culture War: 5.77
I am all the way to the right political social authoritarian. But I knew that. No abortion. No sodomite marriage. Invincible military. No illegal immigration. Genesis 9:6 on the death penalty. Etc. Go Trump! Never thought I’d say that, but I will again: go Trump!
surprisingly, right social moderate: right 3.24, authoritarian 0.18, foreign policy 1.29, culture war 3.37– namby, pamby all the way! I thought I’d be more of a social conservative.
We can have a strong military without thinking we should use it as the world’s police. Wanting a strong military is for our protection first—not for other countries’ protection.
Look, if any survey labels a Traditional Catholic as a social moderate, SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE SURVEY. Just saying…LOL
Apparently I am the no good hippie of TAC.
You are a right moderate social libertarian.
Right: 5.05, Libertarian: 1.49
Foreign Policy: -1.8
Culture: 3.64
A lot of packed language in that– not sure if I am supposed to answer the obvious meaning of the words, or the political ones. For example, “protecting our source of oil” is based on the idea that we’re raiding other countries for it– when the real life reason to say “yes” is because we protect shipping, period, which includes our oil supply, and it’s a known tactic to blow up or steal the other guy’s source of energy.
I got You are a right social moderate.
Right: 3.68, Authoritarian: 0.79
Foreign Policy: 4.21
Culture: 4.56
The comparison tool is interesting; basically all the top right corner is empty.
https://www.gotoquiz.com/politics/poli-compare-parties.html
Okay, since everyone else is doing it, I guess I’ll be a lemming too. But don’t be surprised if we all end up in the Bernie Sanders Memorial Reform Academy for Wreckers and Social Disruptors, Alexia Occasio-Cortez, Headmisstress.
I’m a Right Moderate Social Authoritarian.
Right: 3.56
Authoritarian: 3.23
Which I guess is supposed to mean I tend to believe there otterbe a law but I don’t lose sleep over there not being one.
I suppose I’m a foreign policy hawk (3.36), but not excessively interventionist.
At least I’m a Culture Warrior. Scored a solid 6.97, so I got that going for me.
Interesting but I think it’s an awkwardly designed social survey. As these things tend to be.
Take question 23 for example “Immigration restrictions are economically protectionist” Well, yes they are. Culturally protectionist too. I agree. “Non-citizens should be allowed to sell their labor domestically at a rate the market will pay.” I honestly don’t know what to do with that. Are they here legally? I agree. Are they here illegally? I don’t agree. What about the gray-economy discount? How does that influence the labor market? What are the larger consequences of illegal workers distorting wages?
The maps are interesting too. I think I may want to move to Wyoming.
Or at least visit there more often.
Foxfier mentions an interesting point:
“For example, ‘protecting our source of oil’ is based on the idea that we’re raiding other countries for it– when the real life reason to say ‘yes’ is because we protect shipping, period, which includes our oil supply, and it’s a known tactic to blow up or steal the other guy’s source of energy.”
I didn’t like that question. Personally, unless our ally Israel is being threatened, I think we should get out of the Middle East and let the Muslims drown in their mineral slime as we go all ahead flank in developing nuclear energy to displace fossil fuels: advanced passively safe small modular reactors, sodium and lead cooled fast neutron reactors capable of burning used nuclear fuel, molten salt breeder reactors to generate U-233 from Th-232, and gas cooled pebble bed reactors.
I do agree with Christian Teacher to an extent:
“We can have a strong military without thinking we should use it as the world’s police. Wanting a strong military is for our protection first—not for other countries’ protection.”
Supposedly John Quincy Adams wrote this:
“Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause, by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.”
However, we live in a dangerous day and age where countries like Russia, China, North Korea, etc. possess nuclear weapons which can do continent-wide damage at a moment’s notice, so sadly, there are monsters to slay (the radical Islamic Iranian govt aspiring to acquire nuclear weapons being one of them). Times are no longer as simple as they were in Adams’ day and age.
PS, I forgot to say that I live in the very state that I am: right wing political and social authoritarian South Carolina. But the headquarters of the company for which I work – Neutrons ‘R Us – is based in the Soviet Socialist Republik of Oregon out on the left coast.
Who changed my robot?
Automatically generated. Using different computers would produce different images.
Yeah I had that problem too and either marked it neutral if I felt there were complications to it, or marked it as weak “agree/disagree” otherwise. For example in this question, I agree even legal immigrants should be able to sell their labor, but there are more costs to a society than just the price of goods and growth of wealth with the entrance of new people – so sometimes you may want to be protectionist because the costs to the social fabric are greater than what benefits might be to the economy.
Or with gay marriage – just because I may not agree that gays can get married, doesn’t mean I want the government arresting them for pretending.
Aw heck, i didn’t see the maps. Maybe I should take it again.
Requires simple answers to sometimes complex questions. Should blasphemous art be “suppressed “? No. OTOH, it should not be celebrated or supported at public expense, or, basically, forced onto the public because, y’know, “Art”. Are ” gay rights ” progress? If you mean having the right not to be beaten to a pulp for SSA, yes. If you mean having the right to persecute bakers, florists, photographers, etc., for not wanting to be involved in your…event, no. And so forth. More of a knee- jerk reflex test than anything.
“Should blasphemous art be “suppressed “?”
The Blessed Trinity is three sovereign persons. No sovereign person ought to be insulted, disparaged or denied respect. Even murderers are treated with respect. So why not God?
Culture war: Self-defense is paramount. Culture war will not save anybody from real bombs.
Right moderate social libertarian. Hmm. I cannot remember which Founding Father said it, but the Constitution is only workable for morally upright people. My views maybe unrealistic.
“Right moderate social libertarian. Hmm. I cannot remember which Founding Father said it, but the Constitution is only workable for morally upright people. My views maybe unrealistic.”
John Adams