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I tried to take this, but the first question has two false choices.
Why does helping the needy instantly mean going deeper into debt? Maybe we could trim the fat in the defense budget. An audit of just ONE dept in the pentagon recently revealed they've lost $800M! You telling me we can't feed or help our poor people with the money they lost?!
Really, you were surprised at the result? They may as well have had people click L for Liberal and C for Conservative 17 times rather than bother with such simplistic questions.
I'll have to try the other one that was linked when I have more time.
Really, you were surprised at the result? They may as well have had people click L for Liberal and C for Conservative 17 times rather than bother with such simplistic questions.
I'll have to try the other one that was linked when I have more time.
I tried to take this, but the first question has two false choices.
Most choices in such quizzes are facile simplifications, resulting in weird outcomes. As happened to so many others in this thread, my outcome is "core conservative", even - as, again, so many others in this thread - I'm more centrist/RINO.
Take for example this question: "Government often does a better job than people give it credit for."
First, this sentence is stylistically poor. It should instead be written, "The government often does a better job, than that for which people give it credit." Second, it is sloppy in its logic. If out of 1000 instances the government does the level of job commensurate with expectations 300 times, fails expectations 500 times, and exceeds expectations 200 times, then it is simultaneously true, that the government is most of the time a failure - and yet, "often does a better job than most people give it credit for".
With those momentous matters resolved, we move to the main point: the modern reputation of government is so horrendously low, that even with the government that we have being as dysfunctional as it is, it happens to be the case, that said government more often than not, exceeds its reputation. But that's not a statement of faith in government. It merely means that the populace so intensely hates government, that its hatred has become excessive. Were this question to have been asked, say, 30 years ago, I'd likely have given the opposite answer... not because we had a better government, but because we had a less cynical populace.
Interesting....
This one gave me solid liberal.
Second Political Spectrum gave me center-left social moderate.
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