I thought not. Unless your name is Morgan. You can take this 30-some-odd question quiz here to find out how progressive you are... or aren't. I personally think the quiz is full o' shit, like most of these things. It asks all the wrong questions and very few of the correct ones.
I'm off the charts as far as our progressive friends are concerned, which is another reason to think the quiz is dubious, at best. That said, the upper range of this graphic is telling, innit?
I took this test yesterday; got a 91.4 or something like that. My computer started smoking. "Extremely Conservative" it said. I could hear liberals wailing and gnashing their teeth in the background....
ReplyDeleteDang! I thought I was being a little too generous on some questions and that I'd turn out to be less conservative than you, but DANG! 69/400! Whew!
ReplyDeleteThere were quite a few loaded queswtions, though.
I'd better go kiss a hippie or something.
I could hear liberals wailing and gnashing their teeth in the background....
ReplyDeleteHeh. I had EXACTLY the same feeling, Staci.
Moogie: Kiss a hippie? I did just that sorta thing in the way-back. Lots. But it doesn't seem to have saved me. ;-)
Pepper came in at 120 and our social worker daughter came in at 184! She says don't tell anyone -- the establishment might not let her be a social worker anymore!
ReplyDeleteHaven't taken this particular test, but my previous forays into internet political teeter-totter test taking state that I'm well into the Libertarian Anarchist fold.
ReplyDeleteLiberals and conservatives should fear my wrath!
It's such a sad, interesting time to be alive.
ReplyDeleteFirst time FDR heard about the concept of deficit spending, he 'bout had a fit. Nowadays, you have to shrug your shoulders and yell "so just print some more!" with a big stupid grin on your face or else you should be putting a white hood on your head and burning a cross on someone's lawn.
And yes, I'm surprised. You're extremely conservative like I'm extremely into body piercing.
Only a 75? I'm a friggin' lib compared to Moogie.
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As with most of these things, they only grade on a conservative-liberal axis, and don't take into account other possibilities, such as Libertarian (a mix of conservative and liberal positions, weighted towards freedom) or authoritarianism/fascism (a mix of conservative and liberal positions, weighted towards government control). I'll skip, thanks.
ReplyDeleteThirty-eight.
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm an "extremist," I clicked a few 0's and ten's. Like you pointed out, some of these questions are jacked up.
Typically, when they contain the word "can" or "should," we get into a situation where there is no such thing as moderate conservatism. Because in those situations, if you take the test again, you'll notice CAP is exploring some utopian ideal that has already been tested a few times and found not to work. And so the conscientious conservative is going to click the 0, as I did.
That's what conservatism really is, when you get down to it. It is having the courage -- and long-term memory -- to say "we've been down this road; if you don't have a meaningful idea about how our next attempt is going to be different, then stick it." "Moderate" means, although you know it didn't work, and won't work, you wish it would, so you click a four, six or a nine.
But you're not wimpy like that, Buck; at least I don't think you are. You probably got that puffy 125 number through some genuinely different opinions about policy, I'm guessing. Two of the questions spring immediately to mind, and it would be OT to re-hash the issues here.
She says don't tell anyone -- the establishment might not let her be a social worker anymore!
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of truth in that statement.
Liberals and conservatives should fear my wrath!
Maybe you've noticed, Daph: I don't comment on your political posts. I'm following Mom's first dictum: "If you can't say anything nice..."
Morgan: So how may ya got? Three? More?
I'm a friggin' lib compared to Moogie.
Me, too. Sorta.
Jim: You're right about the axes.
Your second comment was caught in the spam trap, Morgan. I left my thoughts about this on your post.
ReplyDeleteHey Buck - seems my comments are making it to you. I'm gonna try again; I sent this thru earlier today.
ReplyDeleteI scored a 110 which surprised me. Then again, those 10s I answered about terrorism and big government may have done that.
I usually end up on the Libertarian side of these kinds of surveys.
This was the first and only time I saw your comment, Kris. You weren't shunted off to spam-hell, either. Hang in there... I might turn moderation off soon. And me too, when it comes to the small-L libertarian thing. I'm sure as Hell not a Republican although I usually wind up voting for and with them... it's a "lesser of two evils" thing.
ReplyDeleteI haven't taken the test - pretty sure how it will turn out :)
ReplyDeleteA Social Worker! Lordy!
Buck, I'm late getting around to take the test and comment but here it is: My score of 115 put me in the "very conservative" category which is pretty close to your score as well. It is definitely a crock of a quiz but I suppose it's title "the Progressive quiz" halfway explains that. Anything thought up by that moonbat segment of the population is going to be at least 50% BS. Anyway, it was fun to take (plus, I can't disagree with my score) and thanks for posting it.
ReplyDeleteAnything thought up by that moonbat segment of the population is going to be at least 50% BS.
ReplyDeleteHeh. And don't you just LOVE how they've changed the way they self-identify these days? They're no longer "liberals" now... it's gotta be "progressive." Coz who's against PROGRESS? Dumbasses.
Lou: I have NO doubts how you'd score!
89. Eighty Nine. They seem to object to us monarchists.
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