A nice oversimplification of some complex issues.

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas.

— Aldous Huxley

Via Paul Downey, via Chris Ferris, via…

I don't usually take the time to play along, but I was curious about The Political Gauge.

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My Political Gauge

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (9). On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (4).

I wonder which choices made my scores so high? :-)

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yikes, it's rare to see someone further into the bottom left than me .. i'm impresssed, comrade Norm!

Posted by Paul Downey on 07 Jun 2005 @ 08:04pm UTC #

I am not a number!
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I am not a set of numbers either!

Posted by Jimmy Cerra on 07 Jun 2005 @ 09:44pm UTC #

Heh :-)

Posted by Norman Walsh on 07 Jun 2005 @ 10:46pm UTC #

Guess I'd be one of them pinko liberals too, if I happened to be American...

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (10). On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a Strong Liberal (18).

Your score is on a scale of 0 to 100, with 0 being fully liberal and 100 being fully conservative.

Posted by Adrian on 08 Jun 2005 @ 07:32am UTC #

Interesting. I'd really like to understand the scoring system, I'd certainly pegged myself differently than it did.

I didn't notice one before closing the page, but a look at the responses would be really interesting, if there isn't one there.

On Non-Fiscal Issues, you rank as a centrist (48). On Fiscal Issues, you rank as a centrist (43).

Posted by Derek on 08 Jun 2005 @ 01:18pm UTC #

It's interesting - the politic gauge by number. I am at a loss to calculate mine...

Posted by Golddoll on 11 Dec 2005 @ 11:24am UTC #
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