Where are you on the political spectrum

Where are you on the political spectrum? Are you on the left, center or right. Or are you something not classifiable such as a libertarian or anarchist. Your true political ideology may be different than what you perceive it to be.

Your responses to issue, policy, attitude and pop culture related questions will determine if you are a lefty, liberal, moderate, conservative, wingnut or libertarian on the political spectrum. Please note the age and gender questions were required by gotoquiz.com

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You believe a balanced budget
- is desirable
- should only be achieved by cutting spending
- should only be achieved by raising taxes
- is a worthy goal after huge tax cut induced deficits force massive government spending cuts
- can only be accomplished by both increasing taxes and cutting spending
Taxes should be
- as low as possible
- flat
- progressive
- a necessary evil
- as high as possible on the rich
What are your attitudes about healthcare
- It should be a right in any advanced society
- Our current system should not be changed. We have the best system in the world.
- Costs need to be contained
- We need a public option to keep insurance companies honest
- Single payer is the only way to go
- Let market forces improve the system
Welfare
- should be available for only a limited time
- should be available only for children
- should not exist. Nobody owes anyone anything
- and other related services should be available as a safety net
- and other similar services must be available to the poor as long as necessary to guarantee basic human dignity. People should also be provided with the education, healthcare and child care they need to find a job and leave welfare
The homeless
- are that way by choice
- are mostly mentally ill
- are that way because they can't afford housing
- should get a job or be given a one way bus ticket
- should be provided with adequate housing and services
The government suddenly has a surplus. We should
- cut taxes. It's our money.
- restore programs that were cut and fund new initiatives
- save the surplus for a rainy day.
- All of the above
- 2 and 3
Which statement is closest to your attitude
- Spending money on a situation does not improve the situation
- Spending money on a situation is the only way to improve a situation
- Spending money on a problem may not always solve a problem, but not spending money on a problem will never solve the problem
- Spend money when necessary, but lower costs first.
- I don't care if you solve the problem or not. Just don't raise my taxes.
- The government should only spend money on national security and law enforcement
Which best describes your attitude towards higher education.
- It should be a right in advanced societies.
- It should be affordable for everyone
- Nobody owes you anything. Get a job and finance it yourself.
- You need to get a job if you can't afford it, but the government should pick up the rest.
The U.S. should fight wars
- only when attacked
- when we or our allies are attacked
- when we or our allies are attacked and for humanitarian reasons
- when it is in our security or economic interests
- never
Your attitude towards the Iraq War
- There are no weapons of mass destruction and Iraq had nothing to do with September 11. We need to get out ASAP.
- Regardless of WMD status, removing Saddam Hussein was a good thing.
- Although removing Saddam Hussein was a good thing, it wasn't worth the deaths resulting from the war.
- We need to exit the war ASAP, but in an orderly fashion.
- We should not exit the war until we've won
How should the United States deal with Iran?
- Hit them with a preemptive strike
- Allow Israel to hit them with a preemptive strike
- Impose sanctions
- Negotiate with no preconditions
- Negotiate with no preconditions and impose sanctions if they fail
- Negotiate with no preconditions, while leaving no potential response off the table if talks fail
What should we do with suspected terrorists
- Hold them outside the country without formal charges, torturing them if necessary to get information
- Prosecute them with military tribunals and then hold them outside the country, torturing them if necessary to get information
- Give them due process. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Those found guilty will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law
- Give them due process. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Those found guilty will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, with the exception of the death penalty.
Your feelings on torture
- it is morally wrong and should never be permitted
- is something that should never be permitted because it endangers American and allied troops and civilians. It also produces too many false positives.
- Torture should be performed only in Jack Bauer situations
- It is repugnant, but a necessary tool to get information in rare situations.
- We should have no qualms about torturing terrorists. The terrorists don't care how much suffering they've caused.
Warrantless surveillance
- should never be an option. The current warrant system grants enough flexibility to monitor terrorist activities. Without warrants, a president could spy on political enemies as Richard Nixon did.
- should be used only in limited situations to prevent the trampling of the fourth amendment.
- should be used when necessary. There should never be any restrictions on terrorist related intelligence activities. National security trumps the fourth amendment.
Dick Cheney
- Should shut up and go hunting, preferably with other right wing loud mouths
- should be prosecuted
- and other Bush officials should have been prosecuted when in office, but pursuing them would distract us from pursuing important policy goals
- performs a useful service when he criticizes the Obama administration
Israel
- Is an important Democratic ally in a hostile region.
- is surrounded by 300 million hostile Arabs and Muslims. most of whom deny its right to exist. There should be a two state solution only after its enemies agree to normalized relations and cease terrorist activities. It should not be forced to give up any of Jerusalem.
- is surrounded by 300 million hostile Arabs and Muslims. most of whom deny its right to exist. There should be a two state solution only after its enemies agree to normalized relations and cease terrorist activities.
- is surrounded by 300 million hostile Arabs and Muslims. most of whom deny its right to exist. There should be a two state solution only after its enemies agree to normalized relations and cease terrorist activities. It should freeze settlement expansion.
- should not give up one inch of Biblical land. A Palestinian state already exists. Its called Jordan.
- is a colonial Apartheid state, responsible for most Middle East violence. It should be replaced by a secular Palestinian State.
Global Warming
- is human produced, scientific fact and already impacting the planet
- is potentially dangerous, but won't affect us until the future
- may not be the result of human activity, but still poses a threat.
- Global warming doesn't exist. I have scientific evidence to the contrary.
- Global warming is a myth. Have you been outside this summer.
Your attitude towards offshore drilling
- Drill baby drill
- We can not drill anywhere that will damage the environment. Fossil fuel independence is also a matter of national security.
- We need to reduce fossil fuel dependence regardless if we drill offshore. Its a matter of national security.
- We need to drill and reduce long term fossil fuel dependence by developing new technology.
Nuclear Weapons
- should never be used
- should be used only in response to a nuclear attack
- can be used tactically
- should be used anytime it suits the national interest.
Tea partiers are
- a grassroots movement protesting budget deficits, taxes and socialism
- a bunch of right wing loons supported by corporate interests
- grass roots activists with some funding from conservative groups, which is no different than groups like Move On funding liberal protests
- a movement as small as the brains of its members
The minimum wage
- is too low for anyone to live on and should be replaced by a living wage
- costs jobs because employers will cut workers when forced to increase the money spent on compensation
- should be adjusted for inflation
- should be set by supply and demand
Which best describes your opinion on Abortion
- It should be safe, legal and rare
- It should be outlawed in all situations
- It should be legal in all situations. No one has the right to tell a woman what to do with their body.
- It should be legal, but I don't want to pay for it.
- It should be legal only if the woman's life or health is in danger.
- I'm pro choice but think there should be restrictions. I don't think it should be used as a birth control method.
What is your opinion about drug legalization.
- Medical marijuana should be available
- The softer ones should be legal
- The softer ones should be legal and possession of other drugs should be decriminalized
- Everything should be legal
- Medical marijuana should be illegal. First time drug use offenders should be given the option of treatment or prison. otherwise all users and dealers should serve time.
- Medical marijuana should be illegal. All users and dealers should serve time and be punished severely.
What is your opinion about Gay Marriage?
- They should be legal. Its a mater of fairness and civil rights.
- Rights enjoyed by married couples can be be provided to Gays via civil unions or domestic partnerships. Marriage should be defined only as a union between a man and a woman.
- It should never be legal and Gay relationships should never receive any of the rights and privileges endemic to marriage. Read Leviticus.
- States should decide if they want same-sex marriage, civil unions or no legal remedy at all.
Your opinion on gun control
- Guns don't kill people; People kill people
- People with guns kill people
- The second amendment says I have the write to an automatic weapon
- The second amendment discusses militia. The right to bear arms only refers to militia. It was not meant to guarantee the rights of individuals to possess weapons.
- No matter how strict gun control laws become, criminals will always find away of obtaining fire arms.
- We need stricter policies nationwide to prevent crazy people like the Pittsburgh Health Club and Virginia Tech killers from embarking on killing sprees.
Your feelings on the death penalty
- I'm against it
- I'm for it.
- I'm for it only in instances of mass murder or terror
- I favor the death penalty in concept, but am against its implementation because minorities convicted of murder receive capital sentences disproportionately more frequently than whites convicted of similar crimes.
- I'm against it, but have problems telling victims' friends and relatives they don't deserve revenge.
Affirmative Action
- causes white males to be discriminated against
- is needed to correct past and current discrimination and bias
- is still necessary, but I'm against formal quotas
- has outlived its usefulness
- is wrong. We live in a meritocracy and hiring and admissions decisions should be made based on objective criteria independent of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, etc.
How do we fix Social Security?
- It ain't broke
- Privatize it.
- Allow people to make their own investment decisions on a portion of their Social Security money.
- Eliminate the regressive wage cap, where payroll taxes are no longer collected on income above certain levels ($106,800 in 09)
- Raise income cap levels and tweak retirement age and eligibility standards
No one is accusing you of being the type of person who would believe in conspiracy theories. However, just for fun, pick the conspiracy theory you think is the most likely to be true
- Humans never landed on the moon.
- Obama is an African born Muslim.
- September 11 was an inside job by the Bush administration.
- The world is controlled by a shadow government of industrialists and secret society members
- Large corporations and the extreme wealthy conspire to help governments friendly to their needs and hurt those hostile to them
- Aliens landed in Roswell and most technology developed since then such as computers, are the product of alien knowledge.
Favorite dead economist or political philosopher (If you are not familiar with any of the below, please Google them).
- Adam Smith
- Thomas Paine
- John Maynard Keynes
- Karl Marx
- Milton Friedman
- Jude Wanniski
Favorite living economist or economic philosopher. If your are not familiar with any of their work please Google them.
- Robert Reich
- Paul Krugman
- Arthur Laffer
- Suze Orman
- Ben Stein
Favorite President (post 1932)
- FDR
- JFK
- Reagan
- Nixon
- Eisenhower
- Clinton
Author
- Ayn Rand
- Hemingway
- Steinbeck
- Vonnegut
- Twain
TV Commentator
- Bill O'Reilly
- Keith Olbermann.
- Rachel Maddow
- Anderson Cooper
- Glenn Beck
Movie quotes
- Greed is Good (Wall Street)
- I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore (Network)
- There is only so much money a man can have, the rest is just to show off. (Forest Gump)
- Force has settled more issues in history than any other factor. The contrary opinion 'violence never solves anything' is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always pay...They pay with their lives and their freedom. (Starship Troopers)
- We've got serious problems, and we need serious people, and if you want to talk about character, Bob, you'd better come at me with more than a burning flag and a membership card. If you want to talk about character and American values, fine. Just tell me where and when, and I'll show up. This is a time for serious people, Bob, and your fifteen minutes are up. My name is Andrew Shepherd, and I *am* the President. (The American President)
Musical Performers
- Kiss
- U2
- Toby Keith
- Ted Nugent
- Bruce Springsteen
- Kanye West
School Prayer
- happens every day when a student doesn't study for a test or complete homework
- doesn't belong in public schools. We have separation of church and state
- Should be part of the curriculum. We are a Christian nation
- A non-denominational moment of silence for prayer and meditation would be ok
- It should be up to the individual school districts
Sex education
- should be abstinence only
- should be age appropriate
- Although abstinence is the only way to guarantee that an individual remains pregnancy and disease free, it's not realistic to assume that teens will be abstinent just because an adult tell them to be. Therefore sex ed curriculums must teach about birth control options and disease prevention.
Should the drinking age be changed to 18.
- Yes. 18 year olds can vote, get married and die for their country. They should be entitled to legally drink.
- No. All states increasing the drinking age to 21 more than two and half decades ago has saved lives.
- It should be up to the states to decide. States that decrease the age should not be penalized with highway reduction.
- The drinking age should be reduced for wine, beer and other beverages with similar alcohol percentages
- The age to smoke tobacco should also be 21

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