From: bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (James Woodyatt)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.elections
Subject: Re: FW: Plain text version of World's Smallest Political Quiz
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:17:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: wdl.1992Apr9.231751.5008
Organization: Space Systems/Loral

I will now demonstrate how this test works by publicly answering the
questions for myself.

In article <1992Apr9.060129.23140@eskimo.celestial.com>, delisle@eskimo.celestial.com (Ben Delisle) writes:
|> 
|>       Got this off of an E-mailing list. I thought I would send it
|> on to you all.
|>  ------ --- --- ---                       --- --- --- -------
|> 
|>   +--------------------------------------------------------------+
|>   |             The World's Smallest Political Quiz              |
|>   |  (originally designed by the Advocates for Self Government)  |
|>   +--------------------------------------------------------------+
|>  
|> What's your position on the political map?  The old way of looking at 
|> politics doesn't work anymore.  You really do have more options than 
|> the one-dimensional choice between "left" and "right".  Find out who 
|> in the world of politics agrees with you.  Take this short quiz.  
|>  
|> Circle "Y" when you agree with a statement, "N" if you disagree, and 
|> "M" for maybe, sometimes, not sure, or if you need more information.
|>  
|>  
|> PART 1: Are you a self governor on PERSONAL issues?
|>  
|>                                                 20      10       0
|>                                                 
|> 1.  Military service should be voluntary.        Y       M       N
|>     No draft or compulsory registration.

No. I support compulsory registration for the draft, but not compulsory
military service except as part of a draft call-up. (0 points.)

|> 2.  Government should keep hands off radio       Y       M       N
|>     and TV program content.

Completely.(20 points)

|> 3.  Government should not interfere in sexual    Y       M       N
|>     conduct between consenting adults.

Without exception. (20 points)

|> 4.  Drug laws don't work.  They do more          Y       M       N
|>     harm than good.  Repeal them.

Which drug laws? I guess this means narcotics criminalization. So, yes,
I agree with this statement more or less. (20 points)

|> 5.  People should have the right to travel,      Y       M       N
|>     immigrate, and emigrate freely.

Yup. (20 points)
                                         
|> YOUR PERSONAL SELF-GOVERNOR SCORE:  __80__  (20 for each Y, 10 for each M,
|>                                              0 for each N).
|>  
|>  
|> PART 2: Are you a self-governor on ECONOMIC issues?
|>  
|>                                                 20      10       0
|> 
|> 6.  People are better off with free trade        Y       M       N
|>     than with tariffs and other barriers.

Yup. (20 points)

|> 7.  Minimum wage laws eliminate jobs.            Y       M       N
|>     Repeal them.

Negative. Emphatically no. (0 points)

|> 8.  End taxes.  Replace them with voluntary      Y       M       N
|>     payment for services.

Complete lunacy. (0 points)

|> 9.  Let farmers farm without subsidies,          Y       M       N
|>     quotas, or other government limits.

Yup. (20 points)

|> 10. Western Europe and Japan should pay          Y       M       N
|>     for their own defense.

Yup. (20 points)

|> YOUR ECONOMIC SELF-GOVERNOR SCORE:  __60__  (20 for each Y, 10 for each M,
|>                                              0 for each N).
|>  
|>  
|> PART 3:  Now, find your REAL political position.

|>                                 .             LIB = Libertarian
|>                               ./ \.           CON = Conservative (Right)
|>                             ./  .  \.         CEN = Centrist
|>                           ./  .   .  \.       LEF = Liberal (Left)
|>                         ./  .   .   .  \.     AUT = Authoritarian
|>                       ./  .   .LIB.   .  \.
|>                     ./ \.   *   .   .   ./ \.
|>                   ./  .  \./_\.___.___./  .  \.
|>                 ./  .   ./! .  \.   . ! .   .  \.
|>               ./  .   ./  !   .  \.   !   .   .  \.
|>             ./  .   ./  . ! .   .  \. ! .   .   .  \.
|>          100 \.   .LEF.   !   .CEN.  \!   .CON.   ./ 100
|>             90 \./  .   . ! .   .   . !\.   .   ./ 90
|>               80 \.   .   !___.___.___!  \.   ./ 80
|>                 70 \.   ./  .   .   .  \.  \./ 70
|>                   60 \./  .   .   .   .  \./ 60
|>         Personal    50 \.   .   .   .   ./ 50    Economic
|>      Self-Governor    40 \.   .AUT.   ./ 40    Self-Governor
|>                Score    30 \.   .   ./ 30    Score
|>                           20 \.   ./ 20
|>            **80**           10 \./ 10              **60**
|>                               0   0
|>  

80 on the PERSONAL
60 on the ECONOMIC

This puts *me* in the `Libertarian' camp.

Yeah, right. Next you'll be telling me Michael Kinsley is a liberal.

-- 
James Woodyatt  Space Systems/Loral   Palo Alto, CA   bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com

``And when he dreamed his ears drooled thirty weight engine oil
He took personality tests and stapled them to his lower lip''
				    --Stan Ridgway,
				      `Jack Talked (Like A Man On Fire)'