posted September 09, 2007 03:01 AM              

What Type Are You?

You may be surprised...

posted September 09, 2007 11:07 AM              

Liberal

Based on your answers to the questionnaire, you most closely resemble survey respondents within the Liberal typology group. This does not mean that you necessarily fit every group characteristic or agree with the group on all issues.

posted September 17, 2007 01:52 AM            

For example, I was to list myself as liberal or conservative. By various definitions, I'm very strongly both. By other popular definitions, I'm not either one. At least I could eliminate "Republican/Democrat" since that was asked as a different question (and thus not a synonym for liberal/conservative).

I'm curious what changing my age, state, and sex will do to my results. After I get my true results, I'm gonna change them and see.

Hmmm...it lists me as Liberal. While some parts are true (and some are true only in a very unimaginative sense), other parts are way off.

Ok, let's change my gender to male, change my state to Texas (where I DID grow up, btw), and add 20 years to my age. Ok, got the same result.

I've read through some of their other labels. None really fit me. The site claims to be "beyond red and blue" but it's still a box that I can't fit inside.

posted September 17, 2007 04:26 AM              

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For example, I was to list myself as liberal or conservative. By various definitions, I'm very strongly both. By other popular definitions, I'm not either one.

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I'm curious what changing my age, state, and sex will do to my results.

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your answers to these questions are anonymous and do not affect your typology assignment.

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Anyways, I too- found this test somewhat frustrating. I dislike being labled, and never have fit within a box of sorts, LOL!
So in this, we share a common ground.

I'm thinking they should have placed the option of "other view", then allowed a space to write text.

I appreciate you taking the time to share your veiws.

*Now look at Moonie up there, took the test for FUN...

Gotta' Love Him...

posted September 17, 2007 07:28 PM            

Though if I were somehow in a position of political power and not seriously opposed, you probably wouldn't recognize things within 10 years. In that sense, I can be VERY radical. The WAY I'd go about handling things is very different than the way most people even consider.

I share the extreme cynicism of government and big biz (but not small biz and the "underground economy") of the Disaffecteds. I believe that not only does power corrupt, and that most governments are set up by the most powerful to serve the interests of the most powerful (but selling it as something very different to "the People"), but that even when there is sincere goodwill, human nature will mess it up. Those in power are afflicted with human ego which means those that wish to please them (and when dealing with people who can not only fire you, but set thugs, like the IRS for example, upon you, and cause you and/or your loved ones extreme misery or even death, then it's especially true) will say whatever the ego of the ones in charge want to hear. This means that even when a sincere effort to do the most good to the most people, the said leaders will be operating on false information because their underlings and agents tell them what the ones in charge want to hear.

To top it off, those who do good (and brown nose) in the hierarchy tend to be promoted until they stop doing good, which means they are effectively raised to their level of incompetence and left there (and who wants to point out that the one in charge made a mistake? Few people would, including the leader that made the mistake).

Anyway, there are SOME liberals that are against big government, and I tend to have a lot of sympathy for them (such as Charles Frankel and Cindy Hill). Likewise, there are SOME conservatives that are also for small government and I also have a lot of sympathy for them (such as Aaron Zelman and P. J. O'Rourke). But the "big government" liberals and conservatives I generally don't relate to. Natch, those outside such labels, like James Bovard or Robert Anton Wilson, are also pundits and authors I greatly like.

I even like the ideas of many political anarchists (save that too many have victim mentalities and are actually more Communist) and libertarians (though I think their habit of promoting big business isn't in the interest of liberty, as I see big biz and big government as different wings on the same bird of prey).

It's just that unlike the Disaffected, I don't blame the government for what troubles I do. The government and its workers are inconvenient to me, and I think by it's very nature any government is almost certain to creates more harm than good, but I deal with it like I deal with the weather, having to eat, etc. I also see government and trends of authoritarianism and libertarianism as cyclic. Weather the rough parts, enjoy the good parts.

It can be argued I'm in financial straights like they are. If I weren't resourceful, I certainly would be (btw, this jury rigged computer I'm using I got via opportunity and help from friends, it wasn't something I could afford). Thing is, at least for now, I'm happy with that. I keep a low overhead and thus don't need as much as others do. I manage to even save some money on a regular basis, too. Thus, despite my being "lower class," I'm not unhappy with that. That's another difference between me and the Disaffected.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I agree with the Disaffected that the government sucks, and likely always will to some extent, but I disagree with them that life sucks. Overall, I'm rather positive about life. I'm aware of the blemishes and dangers in life, natural and man made (including government policies and agents), but I don't let it get me down.