Subject: Libertarian FAQ: World's Smallest Political Quiz
Summary: This posting contains the World's Smallest Political Quiz.
Supersedes: <libertarian/quiz_824080269@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 14:33:41 GMT

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        OPERATION POLITICALLY HOMELESS

"The old left-right paradigm is not working anymore" 
.-- Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X

Fed up with left/right labels?

Use the improved political compass to test your identity.
Take the World's Smallest Political Quiz.

The World's Smallest Political Quiz is now on the World Wide Web.  
.<URL:http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html>
Try it out and register your score.  Or read further if you don't
have access to the Web.



        CURRENT RESULTS
   
Current results of the World's Smallest Political Quiz (updated daily).

Registered participants (7,236):

Libertarian:         49.9%
Left-liberal:        17.0%
Centrist:            23.6%
Right-conservative:   6.7%
Authoritarian:        2.8%


                                    Average Supporters' Score
           Candidate     Vote Total     Personal Economic
-------------------- --------------     -------- --------
    Bill Clinton (D)    418 (30.7%)        73       42
   None of the Above    187 (13.7%)        76       56
    Steve Forbes (R)    172 (12.6%)        64       73
        Bob Dole (R)    140 (10.3%)        52       61
    Harry Browne (L)    132 ( 9.7%)        93       90
    Pat Buchanan (R)    115 ( 8.4%)        46       65
 Lamar Alexander (R)     56 ( 4.1%)        66       63
      Alan Keyes (R)     51 ( 3.7%)        49       71
     Ralph Nader (G)     25 ( 1.8%)        82       50
   Richard Lugar (R)     12 ( 0.9%)        70       60
   Rick Tompkins (L)     12 ( 0.9%)        86       85
     Pat Paulsen (D)     11 ( 0.8%)        72       60
   Robert Dornan (R)     10 ( 0.7%)        27       62
  Calvin Ruskaup (L)      8 ( 0.6%)        56       57
    Irwin Schiff (L)      7 ( 0.5%)        95       94
  Maurice Taylor (R)      5 ( 0.4%)        58       62
-------------------- --------------     -------- --------
               Total   1362 (100.0%)       68       60

If you don't have acces to the Web, you can try the quiz below and mail
your scores (Personal/Economic), your name, address, and whether you
want more information about libertarian ideas to pschmidt@world.std.com.
Your scores will then be registered in this world-wide poll.



                        WORLD'S SMALLEST POLITICAL QUIZ
                                       
   
   
   Take the World's Smallest Political Quiz to find your political
   identity. Choose Y when you agree with a statement, M for Maybe,
   Sometimes or Need-More-Information, or choose N for No.
   


  ARE YOU A SELF-GOVERNOR ON PERSONAL ISSUES?
   
  20   10   0
Y __ M __ N __ Military service should be voluntary. (No draft)
Y __ M __ N __ Government should not control the press, media, or Internet.
Y __ M __ N __ Repeal regulations on sex for consenting adults.
Y __ M __ N __ Drug laws do more harm than good. Repeal them.
Y __ M __ N __ Let peaceful people cross borders freely.

____ My PERSONAL self-government score: add 20 for Y, 10 for M, 0 for N.



  ARE YOU A SELF-GOVERNOR ON ECONOMIC ISSUES?
   
  20   10   0
Y __ M __ N __ Businesses and farms should operate without govt.  subsidies.
Y __ M __ N __ People are better off with free trade than with tariffs.
Y __ M __ N __ Minimum wage laws cause unemployment. Repeal them.
Y __ M __ N __ End taxes. Pay for services with user fees.
Y __ M __ N __ U.S. government should stop policing the world.

____ My ECONOMIC self-government score: add 20 for Y, 10 for M, 0 for N.
   


How to use the Self-Government Compass
 
Mark your PERSONAL score on the left and your ECONOMIC score on the 
right.  Then, follow the grid lines (rows of dots) until they meet at 
your political identity!   An example for someone who scored 20 on 
Personal and 30 on Economic is indicated with an asterisk (*).
 
The compass measures self-government. Liberals value freedom of
expression.  Conservatives value free enterprise.  Libertarians
value both. Authoritarians are against both.
 
....
..      ./ \.
..    ./  .  \.
..  ./  .   .  \.
.../  .   .   .  \.
.      ./  .Libertarian.  \.
.    ./ \.   .   .   .   ./ \.
.  ./  .  \.___.___.___./  .  \.
../  .   . ! .   .   . ! .   .  \.
      ./  .   .   !   .   .   !   .   .  \.
    ./  .  Left . ! .   .   . ! . Right .  \.
 100 \.   Liberal !  Centrist !Conservative/ 100
       \.   .   . ! .   .   . ! .   .   ./   
      80 \.   .   !___.___.___!   .   ./ 80
.   \.   ./  .   .   .  \.   ./   
.  60 \./  .   .   *   .  \./ 60
 (%)           \. Authoritarian ./           (%)
 Personal     40 \.   .   .   ./ 40     Economic
 Self-Governor     \.   .   ./     Self-Governor
..  20 \.   ./ 20
..       \./   
..      0   0



   
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Political Philosophies

   
   
     * Libertarians are self-governers in both personal and economic
       matters. They believe government's only purpose is to protect
       people from coercion and violence. They value individual
       responsibility, and tolerate economic and social diversity.
     * Left-liberals prefer self-government in personal matters and
       central decision-making on economics. They want government to
       serve the disadvantaged in the name of fairness. Leftists tolerate
       social diversity, but work for economic equality.
     * Centrists favor selective government intervention and emphasize
       practical solutions to current problems. They tend to keep an open
       mind on new issues. Many centrists feel that government serves as
       a check on excessive liberty.
     * Right-conservatives prefer self-government on economic issues, but
       want official standards in personal matters. They want the
       government to defend the community from threats to its moral
       fiber.
     * Authoritarians want government to advance society and individuals
       through expert central planning. They often doubt whether
       self-government is practical. Left-authoritarians are also called
       socialists, while fascists are right-authoritarians.
       

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   Copyright (c) 1995 Advocates for Self-Government, Inc. OK to reprint
   quiz as-is with credit to the Advocates. The Self-Government Compass
   is adapted from an original idea by David Nolan.
   
   Last modified, September 5, 1995, by Paul Schmidt, pschmidt@world.std.com.
