Via Lee, this political attitude quiz is definitely pretty cool. I score as a Social Moderate / Capitalist Purist / Libertarian / Pacifist and am said to “most likely fit into the category of Hardcore Libertarian”, which sounds about right.
July 22, 2008 • 9:34 pm
Via Lee, this political attitude quiz is definitely pretty cool. I score as a Social Moderate / Capitalist Purist / Libertarian / Pacifist and am said to “most likely fit into the category of Hardcore Libertarian”, which sounds about right.
Social moderate, Moderate capitalist, libertarian, pacifist. They call me a libertarian, but not hardcore. I like my “Midwestern-libertarian crunchy conservative” better, though.
“Midwestern libertarian” is a fine thing to be. Have you read this post by Dan McCarthy?
(Cross-posted comment at the Reactionary Epicurean)
Actually, Will, I definitely plagiarized Dan’s post when deciding to go with Midwestern-libertarian. I opted to hyphenate clearly to indicate that that combined descriptor modified the crunchy conservative part, definitely the noun of the category.
On the whole, I rather like this particular p.q., primarily because it takes things a bit further than even the three-dimensional Vosem chart (and asks more, if not necessarily better, questions). I don’t, for one, feel comfortable with being called a moderate capitalist, or any sort of capitalist at all. A distinction, perhaps understandable, that most of this quizzes seems to fail to make is that between capitalism and the broader term “free market”. Where lies room for the Mutualists, the Distributists, and the Ordoliberals, amongst others, who oppose both government and economic consolidation — the Small is Beautiful crowd, if you will. (How about those few who believe in autarky?) I’d also like to see, maybe a decentralist/federalist-vs.-consolidation/nationalist dimension. Militarist-vs.-pacifist is fine, but what about “compassionate” intervention-vs.-”isolationism”?
I’ve passed these thoughts along to the creator, but I’m curious to hear what others here have to say.
I scored the same as you did. I’m not sure I like the idea of being considered a pacifist — though it’s better than warmonger. Too many years with Quakers…
That everyone who reads this blog is scoring approximately the same thing – and that we all appear to be libertarian pacifists – ought to be seen as revealing of something …
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(way out of date response, but why not?)
Progressive, Social Capitalist, Libertarian, Moderate -> Pacifist(5).
You may commence ritual denunciation of the visiting liberaltarian.
(What can I say? I like and admire crunchies even though I’m not one at all)
I do think the quiz is a little biased toward categorizing people away from
pacifism, though. The only US military action of the last thirty years
that I’ve unambivalently supported was Gulf I (though I would have supported
a rapid response into Rwanda), and I still come out just slightly on the
pacifist side of center.
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