liberal - conservative poll for y'all

[mckitterick]

After thinking a lot about jaylake's recent political posts, I got to thinking about liberalism and conservatism and how most people really don't know what those terms mean any more. So I made up this poll to get a feel for where my LJ friends stand in real liberal or conservative terms. This is pretty general, and just covers the highest level of the social and fiscal arenas.
[Poll #837007]
Thanks!
Chris

Comments

[jaylake.livejournal.com]

I will of course point out that even the questions contain all sorts of inherent assumptions -- for example, about tax and fiscal policy. To wit, one could propose significantly reallocating Federal discretionary spending to social programming without proposing a higher tax burden overall.

Just sayin'

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree with you! I was just sorta going for the all-or-nothing approach. I could have written a dozen questions and still remained general, but the whole "middle of the road" discussion just got me thinkin'.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Many of these statements are neither what I believe nor the opposite of what I believe.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Me too - I was aiming for a sort of extremism as an approach to seeing where people fall on the spectrum.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, I see that, but...I feel like there's a good deal of coming at things orthogonally to how I see them here. Spectra tend to be linear.

[themitigator.livejournal.com]

hm... the "1-10" questions were fairly tough, actually...