Tuesday, May 03, 2005
A Truly Accurate Political Spectrum Test
(I've been somewhat behind recently in scribbling my ideals. Do excuse another reposting of something I had written last year which you may or may not have seen already. This week I hope to put some new things to paper and eventually to blogsite). In the mean time, I hope my ramblings are still entertaining to some.)
Searching for a truly accurate political spectrum test
There are many sites that offer some variation on a "political spectrum test." Most are pretty basic and can probably roughly gauge one's position, right or left. The more Libertarian ones wisely indicate degrees of authoritarianism or dogmatism as well. Some political spectrum "tests" are rather skewed to where any stance right of center is defaulted to the fascist category -- of course, anything left of center is warm and fuzzy and overwhelming in a general character of overall goodness.
I've devised a simpler, and I believe more common sense, approach to the political spectrum idea:
COMMON SENSE POLITICAL SPECTRUM TEST
* Do you favor a more powerful, more centralized government authority and more laws and regulations over fellow citizen's lives?
Test Result:
If you answered Yes to the test's only question, you are one of those people who favor a more powerful, more centralized government authority and more laws and regulations over fellow citizen's lives.
Who cares what a "spectrum" says...We know where you stand.
Searching for a truly accurate political spectrum test
There are many sites that offer some variation on a "political spectrum test." Most are pretty basic and can probably roughly gauge one's position, right or left. The more Libertarian ones wisely indicate degrees of authoritarianism or dogmatism as well. Some political spectrum "tests" are rather skewed to where any stance right of center is defaulted to the fascist category -- of course, anything left of center is warm and fuzzy and overwhelming in a general character of overall goodness.
I've devised a simpler, and I believe more common sense, approach to the political spectrum idea:
* Do you favor a more powerful, more centralized government authority and more laws and regulations over fellow citizen's lives?
Test Result:
If you answered Yes to the test's only question, you are one of those people who favor a more powerful, more centralized government authority and more laws and regulations over fellow citizen's lives.
Who cares what a "spectrum" says...We know where you stand.
