Despite being semi-humorous and containing misspellings, this quiz is, I believe a good way of determining one's political ideology, even if there is a chance that it might compare you with Hitler or Stalin. Here is the link, followed by my results (try to act surprised):

http://quizilla.com/users/adayinthel...0are%20you%3F/

Libertarian - You believe that the main use for government is for some people to lord it over others at their expense. You maintain that the government should be as small as possible, and that civil liberties, "victimless crimes", and gun ownership should be basic rights. You probably are OK with capitalism. Your historical role model is Thomas Jefferson.

The above is all correct. I appreciate all replies. Thank you very much.

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"Some people complain about the system. The system is not good, so they can't do anything. It's an excuse. Freedom is in your heart." (Jin Xing)

Democrat - You believe that there should be a free market which is reigned in by a modest state beaurocracy. You think that capitalism has some good things, but that those it helps should be obliged to help out their fellow man a little. Your historical role model is Franklin Rosevelt.

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside

"Anarcho-Syndicalist - You believe that governments and corporations are both equally evil. You think that all people should have maximum personal freedom. You think everyone should have control over their economic production, because the economy should be structured completely in terms of cooperatives and communes. Your historical role model is Noam Chomsky."

Not completely accurate, but not 100 miles away either.

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"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

Apparently I'm a Democrat....LOL useless one-dimentional label.

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Those who are last shall come first.

Try, this one:

http://www.politopia.com/quiz_index.php3

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"Some people complain about the system. The system is not good, so they can't do anything. It's an excuse. Freedom is in your heart." (Jin Xing)

your neighbors include Democrat and Republican party leaders...

Hmm....

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Those who are last shall come first.

Republicans and Democrats are very similar in the policies they implement, and they represent the American center of public opinion (which is why they are the two main parties). I'm in the NW (the libertarian "region"), by the way, as socially liberal as Ayn Rand and slightly less capitalistic than Drew Carey.

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"Some people complain about the system. The system is not good, so they can't do anything. It's an excuse. Freedom is in your heart." (Jin Xing)

I think what Democrats and Republicans represent is the false notion that we must fall into a two-party system, we must be "one or the other". It was not the intention of the founding fathers for us to have this two party system, and George Washington is turning in his grave a) because we have this system in place b) because the American people have been fooled in to thinking they must be bound by what is essentially one-party rule with a name-change every few years. And we dare mock the USSR? At least they didn't hide what their government really was.

Why is it that in other "democracies" there are several major parties? That those parties have to form coalitions to make government? Those coalitions have to compromise to get parts of their agendas accomplished.

How can that happen when you have two parties, and ever few years one becomes dominant in the legislative, making the minority impotent, cutting off the will of the other half of the nation? Sounds like a situation ripe for the tyrrany this nation was founded against, yet WeThePeople are allowing this to happen.

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I'm kind of neutral as far as two-party vs. multi-party systems. Keep in mind that even in multi-party countries where others get in, two parties dominate... sometimes one. Look at India where Congress Party has only been out of the majority once in about 60 years. In England the Conservatives and Labour rule the day with some amount of competition with Liberal Democrats.
The advantages of the multi-party system are that they force coalition between disparate groups, creating compromise that traverses a very broad scope.
The two-party strategy is different. Third parties, though once in a blue moon they can take the place of a weak major party, generally put pressure on the two big parties forcing change. The way it works: I'm generally a Democrat for practical purposes... but I disagree with a candidate. So I vote for the Libertarians. What this shows: I do vote. The Democrats lost my vote to a party that is more fiscally conservative and bigger on civil liberties. That means to get my vote, the Democrats should look toward that direction. If enough people like me do the same, the message will sink in.

You might not get what you wish for with a multi-party system. Multiple parties breed a lot of radicals that may not easily reconcile differences. The ttwo-party system, when it works right, favors moderate candidates... who in competition exaggerate the radicalness of each other.

I believe we should get rid of the systematic advantages the two major parties have... but I don't expect that this will disempower the big parties much. We still do not have the parliamentary system found in most other democracies...
And I have mixed feelings on that.
A disadvantage I see to the parliamentary system is that it encourages voting by party. The system we have was never intended to be based on parties but on individuals... Parties naturally formed. But in all honesty, most vote by party anyway.

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"Man lives in the sunlit world of that which he believes to be reality. But unseen by most is an underworld, a place that is just as real... but not as brightly lit... A DARK SIDE!"
-opening from Tales From the Darkside

You know, I am definitely a libertarian, but I'm not laissez-faire (very capitalistic, but not as capitalistic as the LP). Except on abortion, I am at least as socially liberal as the Libertarian Party. That is why I think that Politopia map is very accurate. It has me on the western edge of the map, but not on the northern edge. I don't know whether to make common ground with the Left or not.
On the one hand, I think that neoconservatism is hardly better than fascism and that all who oppose it should unite. On the other hand, I'm not sure whether such a coalition would be one of expedience or principle in my case. You see, I become really irritated by the anti-immigrant union populists who are for "workers" but have a hatred of the very poor that is possibly worse than that of judgmental conservatives. I am very pro-immigrant and my view is that workers need no government protection whereas there is an absolute moral obligation to prevent those in extreme poverty from dying. I know that, whatever tests that focus almost solely on fiscal issues claim, I don't lean Right, but I feel uneasy about throwing in my chips with the Left because of the populists I mentioned above. Do I belong in the Democratic Freedom Caucus or not, in other words?

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"Some people complain about the system. The system is not good, so they can't do anything. It's an excuse. Freedom is in your heart." (Jin Xing)