# What Is Your Political Typology? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 27, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822 "2014-01-27T04:19:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/21 "2014-01-27T16:50:14Z")
The questions were disappointing. Nothing on gun control, infrastructure, outsourcing, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/22 "2014-01-27T17:00:19Z")
Post-Modern, along with the other intelligent, gifted and good-looking 13% of the population. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/23 "2014-01-27T17:27:20Z")
I agree, a lot of poor questions. For instance, good diplomacy is better than having to fight a war, but it helps to have the military strength to back up the diplomacy. Anyway, another Solid Liberal, but there were a lot of poor questions. The problem with these things (along with the need to make it short and snappy, so they don’t ask a lot of questions) is that there is very little nuance. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/24 "2014-01-27T17:31:07Z")
Solid Liberal, which is exactly what I would have answered before I took the test. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/25 "2014-01-27T18:23:32Z")
This confirmed something I’ve thought for a while: law school made me _slightly_ more conservative (which is a million miles from what it does to most people.) > [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > Post-Modern, along with the other intelligent, gifted and good-looking 13% of the population. Me too. How _you_ doin’? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/26 "2014-01-27T18:27:24Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Solid Liberal. > > I’m with Whatsit. Often it was just the less objectionable choice. Yep. There were several where the more liberal choice was a bit extreme but not as troublesome as the one in the other direction. Very B & W without any gray. Not to my liking. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/27 "2014-01-27T18:42:52Z")
Before taking the poll I would have said Solid Liberal. My results after the poll? Solid Liberal, along with 14% of the public. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/28 "2014-01-27T18:49:37Z")
Solid Liberal. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/29 "2014-01-27T18:59:35Z")
I voted in the poll (Libertarian) before seeing that there was a ‘test’. According to the Pew folks, I’m ‘Post-Modern’. I’m not even sure what that’s supposed to be. Looking at their definition, I think it’s because I’m a bit more accepting of the role of government in society than the ‘typical’ Libertarian (which is to say, I do think that there should \*\*\*be \*\*\*a government in the first place 🙂 ). But I didn’t care for their poll at all; far too many false dichotomies. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/30 "2014-01-27T19:47:05Z")
Solid Liberal ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/31 "2014-01-27T20:24:10Z")
Solid liberal, according to them. I had some problems with their questionnaire, though. For instance, #4: “The best way to ensure peace is through military strength” v. “Good diplomacy is the best way to ensure peace.” Gimme both, please. I’d rather not use military strength unless there’s no way to avoid it, but I’d like to have it in my back pocket. Or #6: “The government should do more to help needy Americans, even if it means going deeper into debt” v. “The government today can’t afford to do much more to help the needy.” Actually, the economics of it during the past five years have been that we can’t afford NOT to do more to help the needy. I won’t critique the whole thing, but there were more like that. I’d self-characterize as a small-d democrat. I don’t mind if the majority of the people see things differently than I do. But I want the rich to quit [playing an outsized role in our politics](http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/devos-michigan-labor-politics-gop). ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/32 "2014-01-27T20:26:31Z")
Semi-solid Liberal. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/33 "2014-01-27T20:39:38Z")
Solid Liberal. Except that I am a centrist democrat. But how much nuance can you expect from black or white, no room for middle questions. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/34 "2014-01-27T20:40:25Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > According to the Pew folks, I’m ‘Post-Modern’. I’m not even sure what that’s supposed to be. Looking at their definition, I think it’s because I’m a bit more accepting of the role of government in society than the ‘typical’ Libertarian (which is to say, I do think that there should \*\*\*be \*\*\*a government in the first place 🙂 ). Heh. That’s a fair descriptor of my own politics, and I got Po-Mo too, so that seems to be it. And yeah, no room for nuanced positions in the poll. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/35 "2014-01-27T21:18:10Z")
Libertarian. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/36 "2014-01-27T21:39:21Z")
Drunkard ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/37 "2014-01-27T21:44:39Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I did not like this quiz. There were several questions where I didn’t really agree with either of the given choices. This. At least 25% I answered under protest, on the grounds of not enough nuance. And ended up Solid Liberal anyway. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/38 "2014-01-27T22:37:43Z")
Post-modern “Weird for the sake of weird” 🙂 The description is a little uncomfortable. Is post-modern a code word for “New York or San Francisco trust fund hipster”? Hard-pressed seems to mean “Appalachia Blue Collar,” and Disaffected is “Had Kids by 18.” > [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I did not like this quiz. There were several questions where I didn’t really agree with either of the given choices. It’s supposed to be that way, I think. Some other tests use Likert scales. I like the forcing (no “I don’t care”), but not the dichotomy. #3 is basically telling you to answer either: “I believe affirmative action is 110% correct!” or “Man, those ethnic types sure are lazy!” I’m certainly not doing that one. Answer these to which one you disagree with less. > [@BobLibDem](#): > > The questions were disappointing. Nothing on gun control, infrastructure, outsourcing, etc. They have how the groups vote on those things in the end. I have done this quiz 3 times maybe, the first had different groups. But I don’t remember the questions being so monolithic, either on economics, whether you like the gov, and how apathetic you are. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/39 "2014-01-28T06:07:36Z")
Solid Liberal, though I thought most of the binary characterizations were inane. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822/40 "2014-01-28T06:25:00Z")
I got Solid Liberal, though I echo the objections of others to many aspects of this quiz. My being British makes much of it even less applicable than it might be otherwise. Actually, I do not think of myself as a liberal (even in the American sense of that word) but as a democratic socialist, a perfectly respectable, mainstream political option in most of the world, but not, it seems, even an imaginable possibility for the American creators of this poll. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-political-typology/679822.md?page=3)