An Odd Little Quiz

Your Political Profile:

Overall: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal

How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?

Well, maybe not that odd, just very reflective of the polarization of our current politics. There was no middle ground. I've always known that I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative, but I was confused by the fact that "ethics" could be a political position. So with a little trial and error I identified the "ethics" questions, which are:

1. The only social responsibility of a company should be to deliver a profit to its shareholders.
• False
• True
2. Everyone has a right to health care, even if they can't afford it
• False
• True
3. All authority, by its nature, should be questioned
• False
  
• True
  
4. Abortion should be...
• Completely legal and available
  
• Restricted, discouraged, or illegal

I can't believe that first question is "conservative" if you agree that a company's only obligation is profit. I know that is what G.W. Bush believes, but considering how fond the conservative American Family Association is of boycotting any company who markets to gays, I don't think profit is their only agenda item.

Now that second question probably is to some degree "ethical," but would conservatives truly say that if you don't have the money you don't deserve help when you are bleeding? Maybe I'm naive, but I think the core issue is more whether everyone should get government funded health care, not whether or not everyone should get health care at all.

I wasn't even sure how to answer the "question authority" question, because in my mind you should always be able to question authority, but that doesn't mean you always need to do so.

And then the abortion question. In point-of-fact, I do think abortion should be discouraged. But since the question made that equivalent to illegal, I went with option one.

So I'm 100% ethically liberal. I've just been reading up on Ann Coulter. In her world, apparently that's the same thing as having no ethics at all. I'm very proud.