# Take the World's Smallest Political Quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2001, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213 "2001-09-27T23:27:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/21 "2001-09-28T11:37:47Z")
Whoa! I’m an Authoritarian! “Authoritarians want government to advance society and individuals through expert central planning. They often doubt whether self-government is practical. Left-authoritarians are also called socialists, while fascists are right-authoritarians.” How appropriate for my 2nd favorite bumper sticker: “It’s a Control-Freak Thing I Won’t Let You Understand” ---
**Author:** ![Iguana\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@Iguana\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iguana_Boy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/22 "2001-09-28T12:25:30Z")
Centrist - leaning to the authoritarian right. ---
**Author:** ![headshok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@headshok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/headshok)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/23 "2001-09-28T12:47:04Z")
Left-liberal, one tick away from Libertarian. That sounds about right. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/24 "2001-09-28T14:30:52Z")
Just left of center authoritarian here. ---
**Author:** ![King\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@King\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/25 "2001-09-28T14:37:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheThill \* > \*\*Any more exercises in self-labelling we can try? \*\* Good point, and my intention is not to lock people into a set of beliefs. But it is food for thought, and is making me question why do I shun the label “liberal” if that is where the bulk of my beliefs lie? Is it because the term "liberal’ has been borrowed, co-opted, hijacked (unfortunate term these days) so that it has lost it’s true meaning? Oops, there I go. I wanted to keep this out of GD and just be a fun poll. ---
**Author:** ![pestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pestie)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/26 "2001-09-28T15:41:49Z")
Libertarian, one notch above the “center” zone. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/27 "2001-09-28T15:54:49Z")
[hijack] > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheThill \* > \*\*Any more exercises in self-labelling we can try? \*\* [http://www.thespark.com/](http://www.thespark.com/), middle right-hand column [/hijack] -gigi, on the intersection of Libertarian, Centrist, Liberal; Eastern Orthodox ---
**Author:** ![breaknrun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbce88/32.png) [@breaknrun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breaknrun)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/28 "2001-09-28T16:48:12Z")
Centrist bordering on right conservative. ---
**Author:** ![plasticbryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6a8cbe/32.png) [@plasticbryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plasticbryan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/29 "2001-09-28T17:02:21Z")
Centrist bordering on the liberal side. Your Personal Self-Government Score is 60%. Your Economic Self-Government Score is 30%. Fairly accurate. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/30 "2001-09-28T17:37:59Z")
Another Left-Liberal checking in! Your Personal Self-Government Score is 100%. Your Economic Self-Government Score is 20%. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/31 "2001-09-28T18:02:56Z")
Gee, the anarcho-capitalist (moi) scored dual 100%s. Surprise there, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/32 "2001-09-28T19:18:23Z")
Is it of any significance that a plurality of the people taking this quiz come down as Libertarian, even when the thing is scored with a centrist bias? Does that say any thing about the sort of people who wile away their time taking personality tests on the Internet? ---
**Author:** ![King\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@King\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/33 "2001-09-28T19:29:56Z")
Yes, the “results so far,” that is the 1,000,000 who have taken it include people who have taken it more than once, people who give various answers to see what kind of result they get…I would’t take the “results so far” very seriously. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/34 "2001-09-28T21:21:11Z")
Left Liberal here. 🙂 I’m not really surprised, but one or two of the questions I had to think about for a second because I wasn’t sure where I stood. So I answered based mainly on my gut feeling. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/35 "2001-09-28T22:27:26Z")
Another Left Liberal. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/36 "2001-09-28T22:49:58Z")
Centrist, but also on the border of Authoritarian and Liberal, hmmm ---
**Author:** ![The\_Red\_Menace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@The\_Red\_Menace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Red_Menace)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2001, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213/37 "2001-09-28T23:49:37Z")
“Drug laws do more harm than good. Repeal them” “Military service should be voluntary. (No draft)” “Minimum wage laws cause unemployment. Repeal them.” “End taxes. Pay for services with user fees.” A lot of these things have two statements on which a person may be divided on. A person may think minimum wage laws cause unemployment, but still think they should be in place anyway. Pretty bad test, if you ask me. Left-liberal, by the way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-the-worlds-smallest-political-quiz/84213.md?page=1)