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Tuesday, March 03, 2015

POLITICS MATCH: MODERATE LIBERTARIAN CONSERVATIVE


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PoliticsMatch

Your Political Philosophy
The below is a way of thinking about your political philosophy by dividing your PoliticsMatch answers into "personal" and "economic" questions.  It is only a theory - please take it with a grain of salt!
Personal Questions:  Liberals and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while conservatives and populists agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.
Economic Questions:  Conservatives and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while liberals and populists agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.
 
Your Score
You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:
 
Personal Score50%
Economic Score68%

Where You Fit In
Where your Personal score meets your Economic score on the grid below is your political philosophy.  Based on the above score, you are a Moderate Libertarian Conservative .
Political Map
 
Personal Score
This measures how much you believe government should intervene in people's personal lives. Personal issues include health, love, recreation, prayer and other activities that are not measured in dollars.
  • high score (above 60%) means you believe in tolerance for different people and lifestyles.
  • low score (below 40%) means you believe that your standards of morality & safety should be enforced by government. 
Economic Score
This measures how much you believe government should intervene in people's economic lives. Economic issues include retirement funding, budget allocations, and taxes
  • high score (above 60%) means you believe in personal responsibility for your financial matters, and that free-market competition is better for people than central planning by the government. 
  • low score (below 40%) means you believe that a good society is best achieved by the government redistributing wealth. You believe that government's purpose is to decide which programs are good for society, and how much should be spent on each program.
Examples
The chart below indicates how four "hard-core" political philosophers would answer the questions. From this example, you can see how you fit in with each philosophy.  Your answers are on the left.
  • A "hard-core liberal" would answer personal questions to minimize government involvement, but would answer economic questions to include government intervention.
  • A "hard-core libertarian" would answer both personal and economic questions to minimize government involvement.
  • A "hard-core conservative" would answer personal questions to include government intervention, but would answer economic questions to minimize government involvement.
  • A "hard-core populist" would answer both personal and economic questions with proposals that include government intervention.
 = Strongly Support     = Support     = No Opinion     = Oppose     = Strongly Oppose
 
Personal IssuesYouHard-core LiberalHard-core LibertarianHard-Core ConservativeHard-Core Populist
Abortion Is a Woman's Right
 
Sexual Orientation Protected By Civil Rights Law
 
Teach Family Values in Public Schools
 
Death Penalty 
 
Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws
 
Drug Use Is Immoral: Enforce Laws Against It
 
Allow Churches To Provide Welfare Services 
 
The Patriot Act harms civil liberties
 
Illegal immigrants earn citizenship
 
US out of Iraq and Afghanistan
 
 = Strongly Support     = Support     = No Opinion     = Oppose     = Strongly Oppose
Economic IssuesYouHard-core LiberalHard-core LibertarianHard-Core ConservativeHard-Core Populist
Require Companies To Hire More Women/Minorities 
 
More Federal Funding For Health Coverage
 
Privatize Social Security
 
Replace coal and oil with alternatives
 
Make taxation more progressive
 
Support and Expand Free Trade
 
Absolute Right To Gun Ownership
 
YouHard-core LiberalHard-core LibertarianHard-Core ConservativeHard-Core Populist
 = Strongly Support     = Support     = No Opinion     = Oppose     = Strongly Oppose
Issues Not Counted In PhilosophyYouHard-core LiberalHard-core LibertarianHard-Core ConservativeHard-Core Populist
Parents Choose Schools Via Vouchers
 
More Spending On Armed Forces
 
Stricter limits on political campaign funds
 
YouHard-core LiberalHard-core LibertarianHard-Core ConservativeHard-Core Populist
 = Strongly Support     = Support     = No Opinion     = Oppose     = Strongly Oppose
Final Notes
To ensure balance among political viewpoints, we arranged the wording of the questions so that half the time, the answer involving more government is answered by "support", and half the time by "oppose." Hence, each of the "hard core" philosophers would choose "support" for 3 or 4 of the Personal questions and for 3 or 4 of the Economic questions.

There are four questions which are not counted in your political philosophy. Those questions do not fit this theory -- for example, Democrats typically oppose unrestricted gun ownership, while a 'hard core liberal' would support it on grounds of the government not intervening in a personal issue. These omissions ensure that the theoretical definitions match with current-day politics.

Many of these statements cross over the line between personal issues and economic issues. And many people might answer what we call a "Personal" issue based on economic reasoning. But we have tried to arrange a series of questions which separates the way you think about government activities in these two broad scales.

Political Map and some content from Advocates for Self-Government.

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