A very cool political ideology test

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#1   Social-Liberal
#2   American "Liberal"
#3   Left-wing Neoliberal (Clinton)
#4   Social Democratic
#5   Liberal
#6   Liberal Socialist
#7   Anarcho-Communist
#8   Right-wing Neoliberal (Thatcher)
#9   Christian Democratic
#10   Marxist
#11   American "Conservative"
#12   Burkean (liberal) Conservative
#13   Liberal Nationalist
#14   Soviet "Communist"
#15   Fascist
#16   National Socialist
#17   Christian Socialist
#18   Revolutionary Conservative/Monarchist (far right)


If this test didn't put Social-Liberal first, it would have been an utter failure. At least it managed to get that right. I'm a bit surprised by all the far-leftist stuff near the top; maybe that's the result of strong support for universal health care and education while opposing basically everything all of the lower-ranked ideologies stand for.

In other words, after the first five, I relate almost not at all with any of the ideologies, and even Social Democracy is a stretch. The problem, of course, is that we aren't given the opportunity to provide the reasoning behind our answers, which would explain why my support for universal health care isn't a social democratic position; my reasoning is decidedly non-social democratic.

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Oh yeah, I am a Clinton liberal

Yeah, I laughed too.

They just mean strongly pro-free trade and socially libertarian, which is closer to you than any of the others, I would think.

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As a history prof told me:

You can tell a lot about a person by what side they take in regards to the French Revolution.

"Side" is a poor way of describing it. There were many sides to the French Revolution, both at the beginning and at the end. The number of people today who would have supported the aristocracy at the very beginning are unfathomably few in number. Personally, I would have been one of the constitutional monarchists and probably have ended up with my head chopped off in the Reign of Terror.

Anyway...

#1   Social-Liberal
#2   Left-wing Neoliberal (Clinton)
#3   American "Liberal"
#4   Social Democratic
#5   Liberal
#6   Liberal Socialist
#7   Right-wing Neoliberal (Thatcher)
#8   Anarcho-Communist
#9   Marxist
#10   Christian Democratic
#11   Soviet "Communist"
#12   American "Conservative"
#13   Liberal Nationalist
#14   Burkean (liberal) Conservative
#15   Christian Socialist
#16   National Socialist
#17   Fascist
#18   Revolutionary Conservative/Monarchist (far right)

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worst.political quiz.ever.

OMG IT DOSEN"T MENTiON LIBARTARIANZ!!!!1!

Because that's what "Liberal" means on the test. It's European.

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worst.political quiz.ever.

OMG IT DOSEN"T MENTiON LIBARTARIANZ!!!!1!

Because that's what "Liberal" means on the test. It's European.

What's a social liberal then? Someone like Tester or Webb who is socially liberal and economically centrist?

Yes, sort of. I think I'm a bit of a poster child for social liberalism. Good examples of social-liberal parties in Europe are the Liberal Democrats in Britain or the Mouvement Democrate in France or Democraten 66 in the Netherlands.

Liberal in the European sense is somewhat more economically right-wing: the Freie Demokratische Partei in Germany or the Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie in the Netherlands, though liberalism in Europe is a slightly below-right ideology, not a far-below-right ideology like libertarianism.