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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

I'm a moderate populist

PoliticsMatch

Your Political Philosophy
The below is a way of thinking about your political philosophy by dividing your PoliticsMatch answers into "personal" and "economic" questions. It is only a theory - please take it with a grain of salt!

Personal Questions: Liberals and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while conservatives and authoritarians agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.

Economic Questions: Conservatives and libertarians agree in choosing the less-government answers, while liberals and authoritarians agree in choosing the more-restrictions answers.

Your Score

You scored the following on the PoliticsMatch questions:

Personal Score 31%
Economic Score 26%

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 Moderate Populist .

Political Map

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.


From OntheIssues.org

So I have
a low personal score - I believe that standards of morality & safety should be enforced by government. (yes!)
a low economic score - I
believe that a good society is best achieved by the government redistributing wealth. I believe that government's purpose is to decide which programs are good for society, and how much should be spent on each program. (Not unreservedly. The government should indeed ensure justice in the social sphere, but should not encroach on civil society and the freedom of its associations and bodies in tackling societal concerns as well.)

So I'm a conservative on moral issues and a liberal on economic and social issues?

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