California F-scale test

[opebo]

1.5

'a whining rotter'.  what is that?

[opebo]

1.5

'a whining rotter'.  what is that?

Wow, you're the first person to get a lower score than me. I had somewhere around a 1.75 or 1.8.

Yes, I was extremely pleased with myself.

[opebo]

...some were right on the money:  "nowadays people mix so much that you must protect yourself from disease."  Hell, my wife won't let me near the boy after if I've been on the subway.  "Did you wash your hands?"  "I mean, with soap."  "Thoroughly."  Too true.

Her concern about germs is ridiculous.

[opebo]

1.9333333333333333

"You are a whining rotter."

This will probably be the lowest blue avatar score.

Very impressive bullmoose!  You should change parties.

[opebo]

1.9333333333333333

"You are a whining rotter."

This will probably be the lowest blue avatar score.

Very impressive bullmoose!  You should change parties.

Maybe he cares about more important issues like economic issues instead of unimportant social wedge issues.

Then he should certainly change parties, as the Democrats are quite right wing economically - closer to him than the Republicans are socially.

[opebo]

1.9333333333333333

"You are a whining rotter."

This will probably be the lowest blue avatar score.

Very impressive bullmoose!  You should change parties.

Maybe he cares about more important issues like economic issues instead of unimportant social wedge issues.

Then he should certainly change parties, as the Democrats are quite right wing economically - closer to him than the Republicans are socially.

Uh, Opebo, remember to use US standards, not your standards. By US standards, the Democrats are left wing, the Republicans right wing.

I never said that the Democrats were to the right of the Republicans, just that they were quite right wing economically.  I think the Democrats are in fact very close to bullmoose economically, much closer than the Republicans are to him socially.  In other words the Democrats are a better match to bullmoose overall.

[opebo]

1.9333333333333333

"You are a whining rotter."

This will probably be the lowest blue avatar score.

Very impressive bullmoose!  You should change parties.

Maybe he cares about more important issues like economic issues instead of unimportant social wedge issues.

Then he should certainly change parties, as the Democrats are quite right wing economically - closer to him than the Republicans are socially.

Uh, Opebo, remember to use US standards, not your standards. By US standards, the Democrats are left wing, the Republicans right wing.

I never said that the Democrats were to the right of the Republicans, just that they were quite right wing economically.  I think the Democrats are in fact very close to bullmoose economically, much closer than the Republicans are to him socially.  In other words the Democrats are a better match to bullmoose overall.

You're still getting it wrong. 'left' and 'right' are relative. What to you is right-wing to me is quite left, for example.  Heck, I don't consider Bush to be right-wing on economic issues - he hasn't done a damn thing on non-defense spending (which in my book means he's a centrist). He's a social conservative and a hawk.

bullmoose is probably more of a liberal-leaning libertarian (halfway in between Jesse Ventura and John Hagelin on a sane day, maybe?) then he is a liberal (and by liberal i mean Barbara Boxer democrat).

Regardless, the distance separating bullmoose from the Democrats economically is minute compared to the distance separating him from the Republicans on social issues.

[opebo]

1.9333333333333333

"You are a whining rotter."

This will probably be the lowest blue avatar score.

Very impressive bullmoose!  You should change parties.

it's not a party affiliation question.  I'm sure there are whiners in all parties.  Even among socialists and libertarians.  In fact, very little of this test is meant to connect one to a particular party.  For example, one group gets offended if you burn a flag, the other gets offended if you burn a cross, but in fact, neither are particularly fire-friendly.  Or, a more relevant example, one group accuses the other of trying to control personal aspects of a person's life (e.g., whether or not I can have a fully automatic weapon in my closet), and the other group also accuses the first group of being too controlling.  You'll make yourself mad trying to read partisan affiliation into a test that simply measures ALL CONTROL versus NO CONTROL by government, since each of the two major parties are somewhat controlling, and somewhat libertarian.

Actually in my view the GOP is enormously more controlling than the Democrats.  However, you are correct that even the lesser of the two bad choices - the Democrats - are far from ideal.  I suppose that is inevitable given the monstrous electorate.