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    The one thing that bothers me about the test is that some items listed are actual facts, not perspectives. Example:
    A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.
    Yeah, a one-party state does avoid conflict and debate found in a democratic or multiparty system. Because it's a one-party system. That doesn't mean I agree that the idea of a one-party state is a good thing, that I agree with it or anything like that. So how do I answer that question?

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    Quote Originally Posted by foa View Post
    The one thing that bothers me about the test is that some items listed are actual facts, not perspectives. Example:
    A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.
    Yeah, a one-party state does avoid conflict and debate found in a democratic or multiparty system. Because it's a one-party system. That doesn't mean I agree that the idea of a one-party state is a good thing, that I agree with it or anything like that. So how do I answer that question?
    That part of it is a fact, yes, but whether it should be regarded as an advantage is up to personal opinion. If you don't think the outcomes of the lack of conflict and debate in a political system would be likely to be benign, then you'd disagree or strongly disagree with the statement. (I've strongly disagreed every time I've taken the test for the last several years, for the record).
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Man View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by foa View Post
    The one thing that bothers me about the test is that some items listed are actual facts, not perspectives. Example:
    A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.
    Yeah, a one-party state does avoid conflict and debate found in a democratic or multiparty system. Because it's a one-party system. That doesn't mean I agree that the idea of a one-party state is a good thing, that I agree with it or anything like that. So how do I answer that question?
    That part of it is a fact, yes, but whether it should be regarded as an advantage is up to personal opinion. If you don't think the outcomes of the lack of conflict and debate in a political system would be likely to be benign, then you'd disagree or strongly disagree with the statement. (I've strongly disagreed every time I've taken the test for the last several years, for the record).
    To add:
    the 'question' was whether you agreed that it's an ADVANTAGE, not CONSEQUENCE of a one-party system. Whenever people say 'one-party-system' I think Dictator.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hypoallergenic Cactuar View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Peegee View Post
    I don't think I'm crotchety enough. What should I do?




    btw - The Political Compass

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    I just clicked strongly agree on everything, which means you must have mostly clicked strongly disagree
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hypoallergenic Cactuar View Post
    I just clicked strongly agree on everything, which means you must have mostly clicked strongly disagree
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stiltzquin View Post
    "Astrology accurately explains many things." - What the smurfing smurf?! Firstly: smurf this question. Astrology is bulltit: don't be a moron. Secondly: what does this have to do with political views? I assume "Agree" would make me liberal? Brilliant. Liberal = for this quiz. smurf.
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    More significant for our purposes is whether or not the individual believes in mystical determinants of fate, hence the astrology proposition. There is a psychological linkage between determinism and authoritarianism. The astrology believer may hold very liberal social views in other areas, but this does not alter this more authoritarian aspect within his or her cluster of attitudes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peegee View Post
    Why the hell is Raistlin a right winged libertarian! I demand to know your answers!
    "Right-winged" libertarian is redundant. I support a government that protects individual freedom and voluntary interaction as much as reasonably possible. Government interference in the social or economic sphere should be considered a last resort.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin View Post
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    Why the hell is Raistlin a right winged libertarian! I demand to know your answers!
    "Right-winged" libertarian is redundant.
    The word "libertarian" was actually invented by French anarchists after the French government banned anarchist publications. It is only since the 1960s that the term "libertarian" has acquired an association with right-wing economic philosophies. Historically, the term was more frequently associated with left-wing economic philosophies before then, and it is perfectly possible for a governmentless society to be based around a left-wing economic philosophy - Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War is one excellent historical example, although it wasn't a perfect society.
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