The Swamp

Here’s a stupid meme

January 23rd, 2007 at 4:42 pm (Memes)

You scored 5% which means you are a hardcore liberal.

You believe in governmental action to achieve equal opportunity and equality for all, and that it is the duty of the State to alleviate social ills and to protect civil liberties and individual and human rights. Believe the role of the government should be to guarantee that no one is in need. Believe that people are basically good.

Conservative or Liberal

This is a stupid meme for the two following reasons:

1. There are really only two opinions (on each end of each debate) which are quite strongly worded and the two in the middle are wishy washy versions of the two extremes (they all begin with things like “I guess”). I am not wishy washy. I have strong opinions. Many of my opinions aren’t represented by the responses so I pick the non-hardcore-conservative one and get pegged as a Liberal.
2. I see myself as socially Liberal and fiscally Conservative. No fiscal questions are represented in the meme. Hence, Liberal.

The test says, “maybe it’ll make you think differently of yourself after filling this out.” The place where I found this meme was reported as being 90% hardcore conservative, and she was surprised as well. One hopes that this won’t actually colour people’s opinions of themselves, otherwise I’ll be seeing a lot of my friends wearing Dashikis and playing folk music.