From rifkin@cco.caltech.edu Sun Feb 13 04:51:56 1994 To: dobbin@tma.com, adam@vlsi.cs.caltech.edu, kendall.bullen@his.com Subject: Libertarian Quiz >Newsgroups: alt.politics.libertarian,alt.activism,alt.anarchism,alt.individualism,misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,alt.answers,misc.answers,talk.answers,news.answers >Path: nntp-server.caltech.edu!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tijc02!pjs269 >From: pjs269@tijc02.uucp (Paul Schmidt) >Subject: Libertarian FAQ: World's Smallest Political Quiz >Message-ID: >Followup-To: poster >Summary: This posting contains the World's Smallest Political Quiz. >Supersedes: >Reply-To: pjs269@tijc02.uucp >Organization: Advocates for Self-Government - Davy Crockett Chapter >Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 19:19:58 GMT >Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu >Expires: 23 Mar 1994 19:19:54 GMT >Lines: 92 >Xref: nntp-server.caltech.edu alt.politics.libertarian:25187 alt.activism:59180 alt.individualism:14069 misc.legal:77334 talk.politics.misc:174270 misc.answers:410 talk.answers:143 news.answers:17801 Archive-name: libertarian/quiz Version: 1.0 Last-modified: 18 May 1993 WORLD'S SMALLEST POLITICAL QUIZ. Fed up with Left/Right labels? Use this improved political compass to test your identity. Take the World's Smallest Political Quiz. Circle "Y" when you agree, "M" for Maybe or unsure, "N" for No. Are you a self-governor on PERSONAL issues? 20 10 0 * Military service should be voluntary. (No draft).......... Y M N * Govt. should NOT control radio, TV, or the press.......... Y M N * Repeal regulations on sex by consenting adults............ Y M N * Drug laws do more harm than good. Repeal them............ Y M N * Let people immigrate and emigrate freely.................. Y M N My PERSONAL self-governor score: 20 for Y, 10 for M, 0 for N _________ Are you a self-governor on ECONOMIC issues? 20 10 0 * Businesses & farms should operate without govt. subsidies. Y M N * People are better off with free trade than with tariffs... Y M N * Minimum wage laws cause unemployment. Repeal them......... Y M N * End taxes. Pay for services with user fees............... Y M N * Europe & Japan should provide their own defense........... Y M N My ECONOMIC self-governor score: 20 for Y, 10 for M, 0 for N _________ How to use the Self-Government Compass Mark your PERSONAL score on the left and your ECONOMIC score on the right. Then, follow the grid lines (rows of dots) until they meet at your political identity! An example for someone who scored 20 on Personal and 30 on Economic is indicated with an asterisk (*). The compass measures self-government. Liberals (LEF) value freedom of expression. Conservatives (CON) value free enterprise. Libertarians (LIB) value both. Authoritarians (AUT) are against both. . LIB = Libertarian ./ \. CON = Conservative (Right) ./ . \. CEN = Centrist ./ . . \. LEF = Liberal (Left) ./ . . . \. AUT = Authoritarian ./ . .LIB. . \. ./ \. . . . ./ \. ./ . \.___.___.___./ . \. ./ . . ! . . . ! . . \. ./ . . ! . . ! . . \. ./ . . . ! . . . ! . . . \. 100 \. .LEF. ! .CEN. ! .CON. ./ 100 90 \. . . ! . . . ! . . ./ 90 80 \. . !___.___.___! . ./ 80 70 \. ./ . . . \. ./ 70 60 \./ . . * . \./ 60 Personal 50 \. . . . ./ 50 Economic Self-Governor 40 \. .AUT. ./ 40 Self-Governor Score 30 \. . ./ 30 Score 20 \. ./ 20 10 \./ 10 0 0 Examples: M. Thatcher (right) F.D. Roosevelt (left) Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Jefferson (top) Stalin and Hitler (bottom) Would you like an information kit about libertarian ideas, including a best-selling hardbound book, five quiz cards, and more? Send an $8.00 contribution to help with the costs to: Advocates for Self-Government, 3955 Pleasantdale Road #106 A, Atlanta, GA 30340 Tel: 404-417-1304 800-932-1776 The Advocates for Self-Government is a non-profit educational organi- zation. Our purpose is to present libertarianism -- the freedom philosophy -- honestly and persuasively. Contributions are tax deductible under section 501(c)(3). Copyright, 1992, Advocates for Self-Government, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (The original Worlds Smallest Political Quiz is available in several forms [poster, postcard, business card, paper] from the Advocates for Self-Government. This electronic/text version was created by Toby Nixon and updated by Paul Schmidt in 1992. Permission is granted to distribute this freely in any form so long as the Advocates for Self- Government credit is retained.) -- Paul Schmidt: Advocates for Self-Government, Davy Crockett Chapter President 706 Judith Drive, Johnson City, TN 37604, (615)283-0084, pjs269@tijc02.uucp "May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government." -- Thomas Jefferson