| You are a Social Liberal (63% permissive) and an... Economic Conservative (68% permissive) You are best described as a: You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness. loc: (49, 68) modscore: (41, 38) raw: (3835)
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Good to see we're on the same team. Now what was the new law you wanted to make if you were dictator?
ReplyDelete63% & 90%, here. They call me a "capitalist." Well, yeah, but not just a capitalist! I always find something to complain about in the questions to these sorts of tests. This one was no exception.
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ReplyDeleteI actually didn't put anything in the slot for a universal law I could impose upon others. I suppose this confirms me as a libertarian.
I'm a "strong Republican." 23% socially permissive, and 84% econimiacally permissive. Hmmm, better not let my friends at NACDL know about this.
ReplyDeleteKen:
ReplyDeleteI'm only 20% permissive on social stuff--don't know how I scored that high!
And 61% permissive on economics.
It says I'm a Republican and "exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness."
Aside from the Republican part (I'm a confirmed Falangist), I'd have to say it's pretty accurate.
Tom -
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought you meant you are a member of a Lebanese death squad. But you don't look Lebanese so I did some research:
"Despite changing times, Falangism remains a living political philosophy. The Kataeb, a political party in Lebanon, also espouses a Falangist ideology, and is the most prominent right-leaning organization in the region; in Bolivia there is a political party called Falange Socialista Boliviana In America, one small group, the Christian Falangist Party of America, inspired by Kataeb, was formed in 1985. Another U.S. Falangist party, the American Falange Party, also exists. Both American Falange groups are vehement in rejecting racism, antisemitism, and neo-nazism and espousing traditional National Syndicalism, which was neither racist or socialist in nature."
I must admit I wasn't sure what "Syndicalism" meant so I looked it up.
"1 : a revolutionary doctrine by which workers seize control of the economy and the government by direct means.
2 : a system of economic organization in which industries are owned and managed by the workers."
Wow, Tom as an admitted Marxist-Leninist. Whodathunkit?
Wow, Tom as an admitted Marxist-Leninist. Whodathunkit?
ReplyDeleteThat's really funny.
I'm on the same team as Ken, too, although I scored quite a bit more extreme... forget my numbers, but the edge of the little targeting circle was brushing the Unabomber (whom I really don't think belongs there - he is hardly an anarcho-capitalist).
Close on the definition, esp. the rejection of racism bit, but not quite right on the economics, Ken. The folks I'm thinking of, Dolfuss in Austria before he was killed by the Nazis and Salazar in Portugal, were advocates of what Chesterton and his disciples call "Distributism:"
ReplyDelete"Distributism is a little-known worldview that ought to be more popular. It is the philosophy of Jeffersonian agrarianism: a nation of small, independent landowners, craftsmen and merchants with the interest in and the economic ability to take part in civic life. It is something done *by* people, and not *to* people. As such, it has an inherent hatred for the state-controlled aspects of socialism, and the plutocrat-controlled aspects of capitalism. "Small Government and Small Business!" is the rallying cry of the Distributist."
So no socialism or statism, just the opposite in fact, but not capitalism (i.e., economic liberalism) either.
Amen. So be it.
this is intresting. My name is David Bustillos. I am the National Leader of the American Falange. this is an intresting site.
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