Political Leanings QuizFollow

http://people-press.org/typology/quiz/

Post-Moderns, represent!

I thought a lot of the choices were too narrow going through it and then it ultimately gave me an answer that did fit me rather well, so there ya go. You seem to think it also pegged you accurately so you might want to reassess how crappy it is :D

I too, must agree with Gbaji. The quiz overgeneralizes everything. I'd like to see a truly in depth quiz that doesn't primarily rely upon conservative and liberal as the furthest stances to either direction.

Did you agree or disagree with its conclusion?

Apparently I'm some sort of librarian. Which makes sense given the number of books I have. That being said, the thing still makes some rather broad assumptions. I'm pretty certain not all you democrats are completely against any form of a military for one. I'm even pretty certain that at least one or two of them out there sees the benifits inherent in replacing things that are very old and require alot of maintenance with things that are newer and won't require the same amount of manpower or resources but at the same time work better and are stronger platforms. Ford class carriers, F-22, The new DDG1000, etc.

I don't know how other Democrats feel, but I see military allocation as a question of sustainability and growth. The concept is demonstrated fairly well in most RTS games. Pumping too many resources early on into your military strength slows down your economy, which in turn reduces your future military might. Typically you want to have the minimum number of units required to defend yourself so that you can pump the rest of your resources into growth. I see the goal as to maintain a minimum level of defense while building up the most fundamental force responsible for your growth. Building fighters now make you stronger in the present, but it takes resources away from conducting fighter research, which will give you strong fighters later on. Pumping funds into fighter research gives you stronger fighters in a few years, but it takes away from pumping money into infrastructure to increase the strength of your economy and thus increase the amount of money you can pump into fighter research, which increase the strength of your fighters later on. However pumping money into purely infrastructure projects takes away from resources into education, which slows the growth of your economy, which slows the growth of your fighter research, which detracts from the quality and number of fighters you can field.

I wouldn't want the U.S. to be stronger now when it means that ultimately it will be weaker in the next decades.

The benefits of being aggressive and proactive with your military also decrease as the number of opponents increase. In Risk it's a bad idea to spend all of your armies taking out a rival while another one sits there building up troops waiting for you to weaken yourself. Soft power is real power, because you want other people to spend their resources fighting your enemies for you.

The current U.S. military strategy is awful. We make absolute gains, but suffer comparative losses. We weaken ourselves to weaken one enemy, while other enemies stay the same or grow stronger. Nation building makes us weaker. Having too large of an army makes us weaker.

Edited, May 5th 2011 3:14am by Allegory

I filled out the Quiz as I would have done if it was about my country (The Netherlands) and I'm still considered a 'solid liberal'.
Given that your left wing makes our right wing look like left wing fanatics I'd guess that I'd come out even further to the left if I filled it out for America.

Post-Modern, while differing (I'm assuming here) from Joph on at least a handful of questions. Religion isn't important to me, for example.

It's pretty clever in the way it recasts questions to narrow down one's point of view. I believe a strong military is necessary, but I don't think it should be the first option.

I agree that while going through the quiz the questions seem far too limited, but I don't argue with the result.

Sure, sure.

I started it with an open mind realizing that it isn't "perfect", but I had to stop at question 3 or 4. That is indeed a horrible written quiz. At least have a neutral answer available.

That's not what I'm disagreeing with.

The bolded is.

Yep, post modern. Cool beans.

Shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.