Pew has a new short test to find out your ideology

[Ashleyshubby]

There's a spectrum where you are compared to conservative republicans moderate republicans moderate democrats and liberal democrats. I scored way to the left of even liberal Democrats (very liberal category).

Take the quiz and discuss your results.

http://www.people-press.org/political-party-quiz/

[cbayer]

1. You need to add the link to your post.

[SharonAnn]

2. Link?

[slackmaster]

3. Average Democrat overall, dead center on economic, very liberal on social

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About what I expected.

[DemzRock]

4. Can I has link?

http://www.people-press.org/typology/quiz/

Is this the one?

Also, I passed too!

[Care Acutely]

11. Solid Liberal

And the "Who They Are" is me in a snapshot, excepting for current geographic location (moving to the Northwest) and I am a 4th generation American, not 1st or 2nd.

Who They Are

Highly politically engaged
75% are Democrats
Concentrated in the Northeast and West
57% are female
Best educated of the groups: 49% hold at least a bachelor's degree and 27% have post-graduate experience
A third regularly listen to NPR, about two-in-ten regularly watch The Daily Show and read The New York Times
59% have a passport
42% regularly buy organic foods
21% are first or second generation Americans

[hunter]

16. They missed the question about taxing the uber-wealthy out of existence.

Or throwing a few health care executives in jail for murder, along with all the crooked bankers and pedophile clergymen and all those government and church officials who protected them?

How about establishing a single payer national health care system?

How about raising the minimum wage, reducing the workweek, lowering the retirement age and establishing generous welfare benefits for the unemployed and those who can't work, and generous pensions for the retired.

How about cutting 90% from the Defense budget and the Prison industry?

How about ending the "War on Drugs" and treating drug abuse as a medical problem?

How about replacing all airline traffic less than 500 miles with high speed electric downtown-to-downtown train service?

Etc., etc.

And some of their questions were push-polls.

"The government should do more to help needy Americans, even if it means going deeper into debt????" I mean, really? Fuck that. Simply print more money whenever the ruling class gets stingy, and then squeeze them, not the poor and middle class to control inflation. Easy.

I don't think I'm a member of their 14%...

[slackmaster]

19. People who want to tax the uber-wealthy out of existence rarely consider what happens next

The class of people who were formerly just shy of uber-wealthy are now uber-wealthy.

It's all great until the government decides that you are uber-wealthy.

Nobody should be taxed out of existence. Everyone should contribute a share that's fair and comensurate on their ability to pay.

[hunter]

27. Fine. 90% tax on income exceeding 20 times the minimum wage.

You can be making a million dollars a year before you hit the 90% tax bracket, just so long as the Wal-Mart greeter and housekeeping staff in your hotel are making $50,000 a year with excellent public health care and pension plans.

Is that too much for you?

[slackmaster]

46. I don't really care what numbers you suggest as long as it doesn't hit the poor or middle classes

Or actually ruin anyone financially.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

21. Good points. All of them. But contrary to governmental policies.

[jberryhill]

5. That *is* a short test

Is it done by telepathy, instead of a website?

[Odin2005]

6. It's a BS test because it only has one axis.

A proper test requires at least 2 axes, 3 is best.

[dawg]

37. Agreed.

n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. I came out a

solid liberal. This is definitely a shorter test than the one in my sig-line. LOL

[renie408]

8. I am 'Solidly Liberal'. Which I always think is weird, because I feel like I am

old fashioned. +

[yellerpup]

9. Solid liberal.

I am not surprised.

[ZombieHorde]

10. Question four is fucked up...

4) This country should do whatever it takes to protect the environment ~or~ This country has gone too far in its efforts to protect the environment

Whatever it takes? Such as killing the majority of humans?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

39. A couple of the questions are a little fuzzy....

and would benefit from a little copy editing. I think it would be more helpful if it were a scale of 1-10 in terms of belief.

[progressoid]

55. And doubting the existence of God?

I know of liberals AND conservatives that don't believe in God.

[Ashleyshubby]

12. Sorry I swore I posted the link

But forgot. Here it is: http://www.people-press.org/political-party-quiz/

[porphyrian]

13. Try the Political Compass instead, then compare yourself to world leaders...

Here: http://www.politicalcompass.org/.

[SteveG]

14. very close to the left edge of the line. (nt)

(nt)

[enlightenment]

15. Fascinating and poorly written (and weighted) poll.

Played around with it out of curiosity:

Found a combination of responses that resulted in "disaffected" and one that resulted in "post modern", the two 'middle' positions on their spectrum.

From those positions, changing one response - one question - could take it from disaffected to solid liberal, or post modern to staunch conservative.

Kind of suggests that there just isn't that much that differentiates the positions.

[cali]

17. I don't get this silly business of taking tests to find out where you stand.

I know what I believe. I know where I stand and what I stand for.

[Orsino]

18. Too many of these questions are oversimplified to the point of uselessness.

I know that regulation by the current US Congress could be said to do more harm than good, but if one is trying to measure my principles, yes, more regulation is better.

Terrible quiz. If I'd answered as literally as I could, I would certainly have come out sounding less liberal.

And they did indeed "forget" to ask about taxation, the death penalty, etc.

[Grey]

20. Any further left and I'd fall off the bar. nt

[csziggy]

22. Well to the left of a "Liberal Democrat"

Pretty much where I thought I'd be.

[frogmarch]

23. Very Liberal Democrat

but shucks, I already knew that.

[Ruby the Liberal]

24. Lame questions.

[JDPriestly]

25. Liberal Democrat. No surprise.

But what is surprising is that I used to be a pretty mainstream Democrat.

Even the Democratic Party has shifted to the right. It's such a shame. Look where the rightward drift has gotten us.

[Rambis]

26. Kucinich is on my right (nm)

x

[get the red out]

28. Very Liberal

I expected that.

[LiberalLoner]

51. Me too almost falling off the end, LOL

[nykym]

29. Overall, your political values are closest to those of a…

Liberal Democrat, actually just a tad under very liberal.

[intaglio]

30. If the line is 100 units long

and numbered from left to right, then I am about a 5.

I must be a stinking, Marxist, Socialist, collectivising, atheist, sharia law supporting European living on government handouts and enthusiastically waiting for a death panel to decide my fate.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

36. Oh, come on now. You don't stink (nt)

[intaglio]

48. I'm a Brit, are you sure of that??? n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

49. Well I'm not going to walk back from it NOW....

that would be impolite.

[LeftishBrit]

53. ditto!

[RebelOne]

31. I am a liberal Democrat. n/t

[donco]

32. Overall, your political values are closest

to those of a…
Liberal Democrat

[PDJane]

33. Extremely Liberal. Like, at the very end of the scale.

[Panasonic]

34. I'm so severely liberal

maybe .5 inch from the left.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

35. Well...

It appears that I'm a teenaged, African American, female atheist...

...hiding in a 50+, white male, Christian body.

Whatev's...

[gopiscrap]

38. I tested out as

Extremely liberal all the way to the left of the meter.

[Still Sensible]

40. It says I am a liberal democrat. n/t

[PowerToThePeople]

41. Just shows how far right this country has gone

I should be just left of center, but they have me at the extreme far left.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

42. Liberal Democrat... as far to the left as the spectrum goes. nt

[hobbit709]

43. i'm pegged on the left end of the spectrum.

[Spike89]

44. Misses the point really

There's a huge difference between wanting draconian regulation on all industry/commerce and wanting strong, effective regulation on certain aspects of some businesses, yet the choice on this poll would be the same. All except for the most rabid tea-party idiots would have to agree that it is a good idea to regulate our drinking water, make sure drugs were tested, etc. It isn't whether regulation is good or bad, but is there too much or too little in specific cases. In the case of this poll, they are simply asking a nonsense, ideological question.

Another, related problem is that it (the poll) doesn't take in any information on strategy, trade-offs, or any real nuance. In the real world, there are almost never choices as clear-cut as these silly polls. Rather, politicians get to vote on questions like "do you want to spend money on regulating beef inspections or water-purity programs?"

The kicker comes when knowing that during the "sausage-making" process, the good stuff might get cut out and the crap you held your nose and voted for may be all that's left. Your pure water bill ensuring clean water for everyone, gets packaged with an attached tax break for bottled water companies and may come out the other end as a simple subsidy of bottled water. Our legislative process is a joke and half the bills put forth are put forth for reasons other than crafting good law, the other half are full of poison pills.

[MineralMan]

45. My results

Were just short of the left edge. On the other hand, the questions were so transparent that I'm pretty sure I could have answered them to put the marker anywhere on the line. Such tests are worthless, due to their transparency.

[Trailrider1951]

47. Haha, I'm very liberal, very very liberal and damn near off the chart!

That last one is social issues, by the way.

[Motown_Johnny]

50. I answered "Mostly Agree" to the one about 1 or 2 parents, so I am not at the top of the scale

but I am damn close. Every other answer was a "Completely".

[LeftishBrit]

52. Way to the left of an average Democrat (as I'm a Europaean-type Socialist, not surprising)

Almost on the furthest left of that line, both for economic and social issues, and overall.

[ibegurpard]

54. wow...very liberal

and I thought I was answering somewhat moderately...

[AsahinaKimi]

56. I am

Very liberal ... I knew that!