Well, Gee! I Guess I'm Liberal after All!
[from a quiz I took at www.lp.org, the Libertarian Party website]
ACCORDING TO YOUR ANSWERS,
The political description that fits you best is...
LIBERAL
LIBERALS usually embrace freedom of choice in personal
matters, but tend to support significant government control of the
economy. They generally support a government-funded "safety net"to help the disadvantaged, and advocate strict regulation of business. Liberals tend to favor environmental regulations,
defend civil liberties and free expression, support government action to promote equality, and tolerate diverse lifestyles.
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 80%. Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 40%.
Personal Issues
(Choose A if you agree, M for Maybe, D if you disagree.)
Government should not censor speech, press, media or Internet A [no brainer]
Military service should be voluntary. There should be no draft M [I got exempted for medical reasons, so ... well, my instincts say there should not be any draft, but who knows?]
There should be no laws regarding sex for consenting adults A [I still don't like abortion -- but see comments]
Repeal laws prohibiting adult possession and use of drugs A [might be a maybe; depends on public safety]
There should be no National ID card M [on one hand, it sounds like 1984; on the other, it might not be, and getting blown up by terrorists doesn't sound fun]
Economic Issues
(Choose A if you agree, M for Maybe, D if you disagree.)
End "corporate welfare." No government handouts to business A [again, a no brainer]
End government barriers to international free trade D [Trading this for that is one thing. The "race to the bottom" is quite another]
Let people control their own retirement; privatize Social Security M [I don't know enough to know how the private alternatives would work; maybe no one does -- though it does seem that Social Security is, as they say, "broken"]
Replace government welfare with private charity D [Yeah, like that would work -- see below]
Cut taxes and government spending by 50% or more M [Government and the corporate order of the "market" both suck. But government seems to be the only option we have right now to override the limitations of the market when the requirements for a free market aren't filled in a particular arena of public interest]
[By the way, this is funny and topical -- a Comparison of Libertarians and Anarchists: http://laughnet.net/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=510 ]
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ACCORDING TO YOUR ANSWERS,
The political description that fits you best is...
LIBERAL
LIBERALS usually embrace freedom of choice in personal
matters, but tend to support significant government control of the
economy. They generally support a government-funded "safety net"to help the disadvantaged, and advocate strict regulation of business. Liberals tend to favor environmental regulations,
defend civil liberties and free expression, support government action to promote equality, and tolerate diverse lifestyles.
Your PERSONAL issues Score is 80%. Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 40%.
Personal Issues
(Choose A if you agree, M for Maybe, D if you disagree.)
Government should not censor speech, press, media or Internet A [no brainer]
Military service should be voluntary. There should be no draft M [I got exempted for medical reasons, so ... well, my instincts say there should not be any draft, but who knows?]
There should be no laws regarding sex for consenting adults A [I still don't like abortion -- but see comments]
Repeal laws prohibiting adult possession and use of drugs A [might be a maybe; depends on public safety]
There should be no National ID card M [on one hand, it sounds like 1984; on the other, it might not be, and getting blown up by terrorists doesn't sound fun]
Economic Issues
(Choose A if you agree, M for Maybe, D if you disagree.)
End "corporate welfare." No government handouts to business A [again, a no brainer]
End government barriers to international free trade D [Trading this for that is one thing. The "race to the bottom" is quite another]
Let people control their own retirement; privatize Social Security M [I don't know enough to know how the private alternatives would work; maybe no one does -- though it does seem that Social Security is, as they say, "broken"]
Replace government welfare with private charity D [Yeah, like that would work -- see below]
Cut taxes and government spending by 50% or more M [Government and the corporate order of the "market" both suck. But government seems to be the only option we have right now to override the limitations of the market when the requirements for a free market aren't filled in a particular arena of public interest]
[By the way, this is funny and topical -- a Comparison of Libertarians and Anarchists: http://laughnet.net/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=510 ]
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posted by jlhart7 at 11:38 AM
6 Comments:
I find it curious when people -especially men -get up on their moral soapbox about individual rights & then oppose aboriton. Ok, you don't like it. Who does? But does that mean that you have the right to take the option away?? You post facts about gestation, etc. Fine. We all know there is a life created when the egg is fertilized. But what happens after the baby is born? I am going to make some assumptions about you:
1) You aren't a foster parent, nor do you take part in the Big Brother program.
2) You don't work with abused women, teen or preteen girls.
3)You aren't close with a girl/woman who has been physically, sexually or emotionally abused.
4) You don't work with severely disabled, sick or unwanted children. Nor do you volunteer with organizations helping underprivilged children.
5) You don't work with homeless girls, women or children.
6) You don't work with rape survivors
7) You don't work with women/girls who are drug addicts or engage in other high risk behavior
You want to oppose abortion? Fine. But realize that after the pregnancy is over that is when the real trouble starts & that is when many women need help the most. The least you could do is start volunteering in your community to help solve the problem -rather than preaching & pretending you are an openminded intellectual.
Touche. I do think it's important to help women and girls who have become pregnant and need help, as well as those who have been abused. I have not done this for the same reasons I haven't done any volunteer work since college -- and I won't get into those reasons here.
But if it means anything to you, I am severely tempted to support abortion rights so I can go around having sex without having to worry about having kids. If that doesn't make me look like more of a pig.
Until this past October, I was a virgin for precisely that reason -- I've only had sex once and I'm still not sure whether I should do it again.
well, as an adopted person i firmly agree that abortion is a necessary function in our society. try growing up unwanted. the problem becomes who decides who gets abortions and who gets aborted.
banning adoption and fostering would be another good move. there are perfectly good reasons why some people cannot naturally concieve.
and anonymous.....it would appear that you have sex biases of your own to work out.
regarding rights.......we don`t have any outside of a legal context. that is, outside of a courtroom. what we have is opinion.
I couldn't get the quiz up. I might be more of an anarchist than a libertarian, but I have just joined the Conservative Party here in UK, because I like everything that its leader David Cameron says, and I hold Tony Blair to be contemptible for what he has done to my country.
I cannot understand this issue of abortion in US, I suppose it would be just one of those things that's available and not much talked about but for the fundamentalist Christians who seem way too powerful.
The Conservative Party here is not anything like the Republicans, though it used to be the party supported by the gentry and the army officers. I'd say it is becoming the party that doesn't want government to mess with everything. It upholds the old values of wisdom, common-sense and so forth.
However we have an established tradition of what the americans call "handouts", and we give money to everyone who asks for it - immigrants, drug addicts, unemployed, disabled, lazy. I think this is a good idea. I am unemployed mostly but do not claim "benefits" because I don't want to be involved with that system. It's a question of dignity and millions think the same way. But it's nice to know I will not starve.
i have noticed over the years that i`m not political. and as yves said, i don`t subscribe to benifits because i don`t want to be a part of that system......
This is great info to know.
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