One of my favourite Ayn Rand devotees, Ruth from Freudian Slippers, pointed me towards the libertarian purity test. My score was eighty-seven, which of course, I shuddered at the utter mediocrity of this number, but then this followed:
You are a medium-core libertarian, probably self-consciously so. Your friends probably encourage you to quit talking about your views so much.
Hot damn! That is absolutely correct, especially in regard to this blog, since I have resolved to not speak directly about my political viewpoints. The little that I do communicate is in the method of parody, as I have not yet achieved the chutzpah to attempt satire do so successfully.
This purity test is geared to really weed out the pretenders, and I was very surprised to see a lot of low scores during the analysis. Of course, it makes sense that so many of us choose a political party and keep it for life… and never examine why we advocate certain parties. In addition, I cannot help but feel a bit stifled in the postmodern United States (and worldwide), since many of the test questions caused me to pause and first ask “Am I an asshole if I answer this honestly?” Then of course, I said “Fuck all,” because an accurate score interested me. Relatively so with margin of error and all that crap, heh heh.
Methinks that it can also be ascertained that the definition of libertarian is quite misinterpreted and many people have been surprised at their resoundingly low test scores. Otherwise, why would so many take the test and achieve a score of ten or fifteen. I certainly wouldn’t take a democratic purity test, because obviously I would flunk with flying colours. This just says something about society, I do suppose. Precisely what it says should be left to individual interpretation. Overall, the eighty-seven doesn’t truly disappoint me…and at least blogdaddy would be proud. (She commences to crosspost.)
UPDATE: The Lad earned an eighty-one score. Whew…I married a commie pinko once already (unbeknownst to me), and I really don’t wish to do that again. Heh.
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29, and it’s only that high because I like me the legalized drugs.
Now…why does this not surprise me;-)
28, and as with norbizness, I too got most of those points because of my support for legalization.
Otherwise, I found myself saying, “Nope, bad idea.” pretty much all the way down. I mean, sheesh, privitize the police? Yeah, sure, I’d like to throw myself in jail now please, my crime? Well, being poor!
Why any member of the working class would find any of those ideas appealing is beyond me. Sure, “I’d like all of society to be like health care; out of reach, unaffordable and a major drain on my quality of life.”
(And oh yeah, screw Ayn Rand!)
56! Acutally, I had no idea what party I should belong to, I can’t agree with all the tenets of any of them.
Damn! 89. Just short of getting my badge.