<p>Liberal (no surprises there) 80 personal, 20 government - the 80/20 rule is alive and well at my house</p>
<p>100% conservative; by no means a shock. I am quite pleased by the results!</p>
<p>libertarian</p>
<p>Centrist/liberal. True</p>
<p>i like the political compass test more…has more questions</p>
<p>Centrist: top-right corner.</p>
<p>An entire political philosophy summed-up in 12 questions…must be a drive-thru.</p>
<p>Centrist. I thought i would be more toward right.</p>
<p>Liberal–big surprise.</p>
<p>Centrist leaning Libertarian</p>
<p>Liberals seems to be the majority here. </p>
<p>I have a thought about why most young to middle age Americans seem to be liberal bend. The liberal point of view is usually the more interesting one. It tends to aschew reason and stretch logics but it nonetheless always presents the more colorful point of view. </p>
<p>Being colorful doesn’t always mean right. While choosing the right way often means old-fashioned. Trying to uphold values seems dull and acting like authoritorian. Such is the way things are.</p>
<p>That “aschew reason” comment can go away, but we liberals will be happy to accept “colorful” and “interesting.” :)</p>
<p>conservative.</p>
<p>if i got liberal i would shoot myself.</p>
<p>You want to be colorful and interesting no matter what the costs ?</p>
<p>Lot of assumptions there, ed. I actually find myself on the “liberal” side of things most often precisely because I think it tends to be both the moral and the more thoughtful side, not because of “colorful and interesting.” The current “conservative” course seems to be coming with quite a load of costs, to those least able to bear them.</p>
<p>edvest, my problem with the conservative rationale of most things isn’t that it’s “dull” but that it’s simplistic and a poor match for the real world. I came to liberalism from watching the messy way that things actually work, instead of trying to force my opinions of things to correspond to a preconceived theory. But then, I haven’t considered myself to be “young to middle aged” since my daughter rather tactlessly pointed out that very few people live to 110…</p>
<p>Another immoral, thoughtless, simple conservative here. So shoot me. . .</p>
<p>(Oh, I forgot, you guys probably don’t have guns. . .and packer fan only shoots liberals. . .whew!)</p>
<p>Atomom:
You could always call Dick Cheney - he would be glad to help out. :-)</p>
<p>So wait a sec: when the self-declared liberals describe the reasons why they came to their political stances, in perhaps emotional terms but not by way of personal attacks, the self-declared conservatives respond by being snarky and sarcastic?</p>
<p>Edvest: "I have a thought about why most young to middle age Americans seem to be liberal bend. The liberal point of view is usually the more interesting one. It tends to aschew reason and stretch logics but it nonetheless always presents the more colorful point of view. </p>
<p>“Being colorful doesn’t always mean right. While choosing the right way often means old-fashioned. Trying to uphold values seems dull and acting like authoritorian. Such is the way things are.”</p>
<p>I’m right in the middle of “liberal” territory. This does not mean that I’m values-deprived! Sometimes I think my main function as a parent is to shelter my children from the prevailing culture, many aspects of which I consider banal, if not downright nauseating. </p>
<p>Although I’m happy with where the test put me, a few different questions might have led to a different label.</p>
<p>Many of the things we care about are timeless. </p>
<p>Truths and principles are same yesterday,today and tomorrow. </p>
<p>On the contrary, many liberal ideas are unfounded and impractical.</p>