Where Do You Fall Politically?
Here is another one of those "tests " They say upfront you are to answer with your feeling so be prepared that your reason will find the phrasing of many of the statements you might tend to agree with, frustrating.
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I'm curious if the site would let me go back in and print out [do a screen shot, probably] of the questions. I don't remember them well enough to say much about them - except that they over-fulfilled my frustration quotient for the day!
Military action that defies international law is NEVER justified.
Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified
It depends. That can't be answered absoluly.
I realize many of these types of quizzes rely on other questions to better zero on your thoughts. Which I suppose is fine, it seemed to flush out where I sit properly
I think this is because I did not respond well to some of the statements that were intentionally written to evoke feelings or knee jerk responses. They tell you that's how they designed them.
For example, the statement where you had to agree that business people and manufacturers were more important than writers and artists, I completely disagree with. However, if I selected strongly disagree it was going to throw me more to the middle than I actually am. there were several like that, where I wasn't sure whether to say slightly agree or slightly disagree, often because there was more than one concept in the statement. I agreed with one part but not the other part.
Regarding empire builders vs defense-only that Temlakos talked about, I expect most empire builders are also authoritarian and most territorial defense-only. There certainly will be exceptions.
I also imagine (wonder if there's any data to support it) that most people fall below the horizontal axis. To get elected, though, it's effective to try to get people upset with their neighbors about religious and personal issues, which means the politicians have to be above the line.
I found some of the questions frustrating because they didn't offer a none-of-the-above, or no-opinion response, but I scored right-libertarian, so, I guess go with gut works.
SPH: +0.75
CYL: -0.25
ADD: +1.00
Wait, that was a different test.
Then the more I went through this test, it gets worse... it starts from a pro-socialistic, pro-Leninist viewpoint and sets sail from there to the land of Marx.
I can't stand "tests" that are skewed to force you into a certain viewpoint, especially when it's against your moral fiber or sociological thinking. It reads like something put out by Soros Marketing and World Domination, llc. I admit, I didn't get to the 3rd page - after all, breakfast this morning was good, and I was at grave risk of losing it!
Economic Left/Right: 8.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.41
just barely into the bottom right quadrant
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