(last edited on April 29, 2014 at 1:29 am)
“You’re a libertarian!” someone exclaimed. I wasn’t sure if that was true, so I had to find out where I fell on the political spectrum.
The check: Taking the world’s smallest political quiz, I scored as a “liberal libertarian”.
The double-check: Taking the political compass quiz, I scored as “left 1, libertarian 3” (as opposed to right/authoritarian), which seems to confirm the results of quiz 1.
If I were to sum up how I feel about things, it would be thus:
Keep the government out of my face. Provide basic services for a stable society. Don’t legislate responsibility away from the individual. Don’t let fear/uncertainty/doubt lead to infringement on our Constitutional rights.
On the other hand, I don’t entirely trust people to be honest about their motivations, so government oversight may be necessary if they have the power to legislate. A free market economy might have a similar corrective effect on the most blatant abuses of corporate power, but I haven’t thought too much on this.
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I scored as a Centrist!
CENTRISTS espouse a “middle ground” regarding government
control of the economy and personal behavior. Depending on
the issue, they sometimes favor government intervention
and sometimes support individual freedom of choice.
Centrists pride themselves on keeping an open mind,
tend to oppose “political extremes,” and emphasize what
they describe as “practical” solutions to problems.
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