Are you a conservative? Liberal? Libertarian? Something altogether different?

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Viligant_Warrior

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Again, I don't know that this is the best forum for this thread, so if an administrator happens by and wants to move it, feel free.

Got this link in my email from The National Review. Kind of interesting, and might give us another pigeonhole in which to attempt to jam one another.


Take the quiz. Post your results, if you dare.
 

Jimbone

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Mine came out, [h=1]Result: Scored 33%Result: Progressive[/h]Not 100% sure what that even means, but I hate labels and claim neither for myself.
 

JonahLynx

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Ron Paul for President! :cool:
 
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MollyConnor

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[h=1]Result: Conservative[/h]Mine didn't give me a percent, just "conservative." I liked the quiz though, thanks for sharing!
 
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Viligant_Warrior

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Interesting. It called me a "Conservatarian." That's the new label I was talking about.
 
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adamrobertk

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Thought i'd take it anyway despite being a brit. I'm apparently a progressive. My voting has always and will always be determined by which political party will give me the best deal for me and my family at the time. Our impending UK elections are causing me a real headache as I'm knackered with any of the 5 parties. It's which ever costs me the least...
 

notuptome

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Me a librarian er ah I mean a libertarian?? Very funny the thing is rigged.

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Roger
 

santuzza

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The quiz did not give me an option to say "no" to same sex marriage, so I quit the quiz. But I do believe it was rigged to make anyone even remotely Conservative into a Libertarian. Glenn Beck promoted a quiz like that once and I got Libertarian. I am NOT a Libertarian...
 

Desdichado

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Conservaterian

The quiz isn't rigged except maybe in the sense that it is a simplistic internet questionnaire and conservaterianism is an attempt to reconcile two wings of the Right that largely agree in spirit and tap into the values of most conservative and libertarian Americans. For that reason, people who receive the quiz in their email box should expect to have the conservaterian label affixed to them.

I have to admit, it's more catchy than Frank Meyer's term "Fusionism" that he used to describe roughly the same set of principles in the late fifties and early sixties. It has a better chance of breaking that philosophical quandary on the right for that reason. Some of the midcentury intellectuals would be pleased.

As more of a conservative of a more American traditionalist disposition, I'm not. That said, I would support a conservaterian party if it were to rise up and replace the GOP as a second party. Philosophically, I would still identify as a conservative though to the chagrin of my libertarian friends who continually try to adopt me as one of their own.

Remember: when you label yourself politically (and it is wise that you do). Focus on the thought structure that leads you to similar policy positions. Not the policy positions themselves necessarily.
 

Desdichado

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The quiz did not give me an option to say "no" to same sex marriage, so I quit the quiz. But I do believe it was rigged to make anyone even remotely Conservative into a Libertarian. Glenn Beck promoted a quiz like that once and I got Libertarian. I am NOT a Libertarian...
Beck and his corner of the Right are, like many, confused over the philosophical distinctions. Mark Levin did a fine job of tearing him a new one over it a couple years ago. It's in a You Tube video. I'll try to find a link.

Like I said, I wouldn't be opposed to a conservaterian political party, but the notion that it can be one consistent philosophy befuddles me.
 

p_rehbein

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Don't need a quiz to tell me what my beliefs are.........why would anyone?

I am a Christian, Independent, Conservationists...........My faith and my social/political beliefs all wrapped up in a nice tidy label.
 
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AnnaBou

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It is too American. In England I am conservative. If I had a vote I would never ever vote socialist or liberal. I am a monarchist and a patriot too. If I was old enough to vote I wouldn't know whether to vote Conservative like my parents do or UK Independence or something more against immigration and against multiculturalism.
 

Desdichado

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It is too American. In England I am conservative. If I had a vote I would never ever vote socialist or liberal. I am a monarchist and a patriot too. If I was old enough to vote I wouldn't know whether to vote Conservative like my parents do or UK Independence or something more against immigration and against multiculturalism.
The man who wrote The Conservaterian Manifesto, Charles C.W. Cooke, is actually from England. An Oxford grad who immigrated to the United States not too awful long ago. How is that for irony?

By the way, you seem like you have a good head on your shoulders for someone your age. Keep it up. God Save the Queen. :)
 

Oncefallen

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I wasn't surprised to be labeled as a Conservatarian, I've always known that I had a Libertarian leaning. That being sai, it was obvious that some of the answer options kind of forced people to give an answer that didn't match with their convictions. As someone else commented about the question relating to homosexual marriage there wasn't a no option whatsoever.
 
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Viligant_Warrior

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"Progressive" = liberal, apparently. The quiz designers wanted to use a term the liberal could live with.


I kind of like the "Conservatarian" label. Fits with my small government outlook without being confused with some guy who says abortion, pot smoking, and gay marriage is OK because we should all just do our own thing.

>>cough cough ::: Rand Paul ::: cough cough<<
 

Nautilus

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I really don't need a quiz for this.