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 Hard-Core Conservative
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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.
- A high score (above 60%) means you believe in tolerance for
different people and lifestyles.
- A 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.
- A 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.
- A 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.
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= Strongly Support
= Support
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Opinion
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= Strongly Oppose
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Personal Issues |
You |
Hard-core
Liberal |
Hard-core
Libertarian |
Hard-Core
Conservative |
Hard-Core
Populist |
Abortion Is a Woman's Right
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Sexual Orientation Protected By Civil Rights Law
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Teach Family Values in Public Schools
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Death Penalty
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Mandatory "Three Strikes" Sentencing Laws
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Drug Use Is Immoral: Enforce Laws Against It
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Allow Churches To Provide Welfare Services
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The Patriot Act harms civil liberties
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Illegal immigrants earn citizenship
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US out of Iraq and Afghanistan
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= Strongly Support
= Support
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Opinion
= Oppose
= Strongly Oppose
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Economic Issues |
You |
Hard-core
Liberal |
Hard-core
Libertarian |
Hard-Core
Conservative |
Hard-Core
Populist |
Require
Companies To Hire More Women/Minorities
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More
Federal Funding For Health Coverage
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Privatize Social Security
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Replace coal and oil with alternatives
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Make taxation more progressive
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Support and Expand Free Trade
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Absolute Right To Gun Ownership
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You |
Hard-core
Liberal |
Hard-core
Libertarian |
Hard-Core
Conservative |
Hard-Core
Populist |
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= Strongly Support
= Support
= No
Opinion
= Oppose
= Strongly Oppose
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Issues Not Counted In Philosophy |
You |
Hard-core
Liberal |
Hard-core
Libertarian |
Hard-Core
Conservative |
Hard-Core
Populist |
Parents Choose Schools Via Vouchers
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More Spending On Armed Forces
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Stricter limits on political campaign funds
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You |
Hard-core
Liberal |
Hard-core
Libertarian |
Hard-Core
Conservative |
Hard-Core
Populist |
= Strongly Support
= Support
= No
Opinion
= Oppose
= Strongly Oppose
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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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