My score was 352, what's yours?

[HarveyDarkey]

Should have been higher, but I misread a couple of questions (it doesn't allow you to change your response).

On edit: response to my first response, oversight on my part.

Center for American Progress : Interactive Quiz: How Progressive Are You?

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/03/progressive_quiz.html

[liberal N proud]

1. 359 - You might want to give a little hint to what we are clicking on

Just as a courtesy

:hi:

[Hissyspit]

302. I got 365. 209 is the average for Americans? Yipes.

There are some evil stupid fuckers out there.

[rpannier]

2. 362

[ohheckyeah]

3. 359

is my score.

[DJ13]

4. 342

[KansDem]

5. 333

:dem:

[redwitch]

40. Hey me too!

:-)

[KatyMan]

151. Me too!

weird eh?

[sarge43]

6. 337 n/t

[xchrom]

7. Recommend - need to mark this for when

I'm on the computer and not the phone.

[USArmyParatrooper]

8. Some of the questions are too ambiguous

Example:

"The primary responsibility of corporations is to produce profits and returns for their shareholders, not to improve society"

I actually 'Strongly Agree' with this statement, but with a qualifier. As the CEO of a company (and arguably any employee) it is your JOB to make the company money. Companies aren't inherently evil, they exist to make money.

However; it's the government's job to regulate them and to protect the American consumer, the American worker and the American economy. There are many questions that force you to choose between government and private industry. In my view they go hand and hand.

[seabeyond]

87. you arent the only one i saw on the thread. i believe corps have a societal responsibility though

and not for progressive reasons, but from a more conservative, business perspective. a duty. an obligation. and ultimately, for selfish reason cause the healthier the society, the better they will do, which will bottomline be taking care of their interest.

[comtec]

190. Companies have an obligation to their clients, not their shareholders imho

the share holders will get there's but a company should work hardest, first, to take care for it's clients who are giving them money for goods or services in the first place.

I think that's what's really broken our economy more than anything. companies forgetting who their loyalties belong to.

[seabeyond]

196. agree. it is a triangle, and cannot work if all lines are not connected.

client/customer, employee, corporation. they are all connected and must be healthy to have that healthy company.

[caraher]

189. yes, that was a terrible question

I strongly agreed as well, not because I think it should be the sole focus of corporations but because the question is one of legal fact, not my preference. "The primary responsibility of corporations is to produce profits and returns for their shareholders, not to improve society" is simply a true statement about the primary responsibility of a corporation - it's certainly not to "improve society." They are profit-making engines.

A far better statement would have been something like, "The primary responsibility of corporations should be to produce profits and returns for their shareholders balanced with concern for the welfare of society." This might actually measure "progressive" sentiment rather than testing the ability to ignore the facts for the sake of scoring more progressive on the survey.

[Blue_In_AK]

258. I gave that one a 5 for that very reason.

[RadicalTexan]

281. Me, too

Perfect example of the flaws of this quiz due to unstated assumptions and inherent biases.

[marmar]

9. 381......extremely progressive

[LiberalAndProud]

10. 336

You're more progressive than I am, I guess.

Even so, it says I'm extremely progressive. That's nice to know, because I was afraid that my progressive creds had been revoked, since I'm generally supportive our our President.

whew!

[rawtribe]

11. 376

[AmericanMan1958]

12. 299,,, for me

[Ozymanithrax]

13. My score was 357... Interesting test..

Actually, I consider myself a liberal rather than a progressive. I am still unsure what the modern progressive movement is about, thought there are some good points in this test.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. Got a 367. Interesting quiz...thanks for the link. n/t

[Warpy]

15. 387, howling lefty

But y'all already knew that, right?

[PSzymeczek]

96. Yea!

:)

[BeHereNow]

130. I'm right there with you... 370

Heh...
BHN

[Zoeisright]

158. 390, definitely howling.

[BurtWorm]

242. That was my ballpark.

38-something. I went looking at the maps right after and my score disappeared.

[Donnachaidh]

303. 370

yeah baby!

[Codeine]

16. 351. We're nearly twins! nt

[csziggy]

132. Make that triplets, 351 here n/t

[charlyvi]

17. 366. n/m

[tabatha]

18. 335

wish the agree less was disagree more; easier to grade.

[Madam Mossfern]

19. I scored a 291

I didn't think that I was that progressive.

[Cronus Protagonist]

20. 340

Sounds about right.

[Lyric]

21. 376

[Juche]

22. 316

[hobbit709]

23. Same 352

[peacebird]

367

[Lebam in LA]

24. 338

If you score 209.5, you are mean?:shrug:

[Dawson Leery]

25. k/r, though my score is lower than most around here.

[Jackpine Radical]

26. 363.

Changes in the family (e.g. 2 wage earners) have hurt America.
Agree that an emphasis on violence (and violent or exploitative sex) have harmed the country.

[hyphenate]

157. I have an issue with that

Putting both violence and sex in the same question forces a person to take the question as a whole, and not on the actual problems individually.

For example, I think there is WAY too much violence on TV and in films, and that I believe it has negatively impacted our society.

I think that making sex as verboten as they have, OTOH, is deleterious, because it's only frank and open discussion of sex that allows us to be much less uptight, and can strengthen our society. I don't believe one bit that there is "too much" sex available to viewers of television, and in film, it's usually lewd and lascivious more than it is natural sex.

I would gladly trade the violence for sex, anytime. Kids become inured to the difference with "fantasy" violence and real violence, and until we can find a way to show kids that with real violence, somebody doesn't get up and walk around after they've been killed.

[Jackpine Radical]

199. I don't think there's much difference between our views.

The underlying problem is violence. The problem is complicated by the fact that sexuality is depicted as laced with violence. I'm told that a lot of internet porn portrays sadomasochistic or mock-rape sex, and I believe that real harm comes from conflating the two. I have no problem with sexuality or its depiction per se, just with depictions that tangle it up with pain and humiliation or with the exploitation of children.

[WillyT]

27. 390

:evilgrin:

:hi:

[shireen]

39. highest one so far ...

:applause:

[Liberal Veteran]

44. Commie!

:rofl:

[WillyT]

52. I Was Hoping For A Perfect Score...

:rofl:

:hi:

[TBF]

71. GMTA.... :) nt

[izquierdista]

28. I like these quizzes

I got a 369, but there are a couple of trick questions in there. The one about corporations having a responsibility to society. If you are a progressive, I suppose you are supposed to say yes, but that is not the current reality. Corporations' ONLY responsibility is to maximize shareholder value; if progressives want it to be otherwise, they have to change the reality of how corporations are chartered first.

[KarenS]

29. 357 "extremely progressive" n/t

[doc03]

30. 277 n/t

[ipaint]

31. 377 nt.

[City Lights]

32. 375...extremely progressive. nt

[shireen]

33. 361

:wow:

[NutmegYankee]

34. 364

My only real flaws are views on DP and guns, which I got from living in the south and can't shake.

[Lisa0825]

35. 355. I mostly checked 0's and 10's. Not much gray area in those questions, IMO! nt

[Liberal Veteran]

42. Same here. Like the question on homosexuality.

Instant 0 when it says "homosexuality is unnatural".

[PSzymeczek]

101. rAmen to that!

A lot of the questions evoke 0s and 10s from me.

[missheidi]

36. 253 on the Progessive end.

[Liberal Veteran]

374

[sendero]

37. 314..

.... which is about right, I do not buy into every "progressive" idea.

[scorpiogirl]

38. 347

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

41. 343

extremely progressive

[TreasonousBastard]

43. 310, but no 0's or 10's just out of spite.

[Silent3]

45. 343 n/t

[saltpoint]

46. Came in at 373. A few of the questions seemed

tailor-made for my notion of public service for our elected officials.

And with several '10s' -- including government funding of the Arts and Union influence, etc.

Thanks for posting this, HD.

[Gman]

47. Not surprising to many here --> 230

I don't claim to be a progressive either.

[eallen]

203. You're not alone: 260.

:hippie:

[Gman]

304. We're just awful DLC'ers!

LOL!

[w8liftinglady]

48. 328...extremely progressive.

[blaze]

49. 378

:hi:

[Lucy Goosey]

293. Me too!

Extremely progressive...

:)

[Pisces]

50. 321

[FLyellowdog]

51. 339 nt

[jtrockville]

53. 371: Extremely Progressive

[Papillon]

54. 358

[MrSlayer]

55. 343

Extremely progressive.

[BolivarianHero]

56. 372

[Cant trust em]

57. 308. I've decided that I'm a center-left moderate. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

58. 377

[BlueJazz]

313. same here 377

[turntxblue]

59. 309...n/t

[aikoaiko]

60. Phew, I worried it was either your cholesterol level or credit score.

:)

[Cant trust em]

66. I also thought credit score.

This guy needs counseling.

Oh wait.

[RKP5637]

98. LOL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[KaryninMiami]

61. 351 - that was fun - but some of the questions were difficult to answer due to the wording

K&R

[DireStrike]

62. 347. Badly worded questions:

The primary responsibility of corporations is to produce profits and returns for their shareholders, not to improve society.

This IS true. The corporation as an institution does nothing other than produce profit. Anything it does that seems secondary to producing profit is only done to increase goodwill and thus produce a larger profit. The sooner we as a nation realize the poisonous nature of this institution, the better.

The Federal government should guarantee affordable health coverage for every American.

No. The Federal government should guarantee FREE health coverage for every American.

Americans should adopt a more sustainable lifestyle by conserving energy and consuming fewer goods

Yes, because wastefulness is stupid. However, this will not solve any problems. Any gains in efficiency will be swiftly eaten by increases in the population.

[RadicalTexan]

282. Hear, hear

And this is, in a nutshell, what's wrong with our national political dialogue.

[seabeyond]

63. 276... still keeps me on this board. nt

[Cant trust em]

68. Get out of here you moderate!

Just kidding.

[seabeyond]

78. it said... very progressive. now, my family says i am flamin, and i say... am not

this test seems to concur....

[comtec]

192. You are far too sensable, wise, and level headed imho

You give fair consideration to both sides from what i've seen.

Definitely not flaming, but that's not a bad thing either.

To me it means you're about right ^^ you won't turn down a good idea even if it originates on the right, and you'll turn down a bad idea if it comes from the left.

but that's my two cents ^^

[seabeyond]

197. i am a libra....

lol

life is all about balance.

cant do tilted for anythng in the world

:toast:

[mysticalchick]

232. LOL me too!

Shades of gray, my friend.

[seabeyond]

80. pfff. a mere 308. nt

[Cant trust em]

103. When Bush was in office, I thought I was a crazy leftist.

Has the political climate really changed, or have I?

[seabeyond]

108. when bush was in office lying and breaking the law is when i was called the flamin liberal....

it was because so many people were buying into his lies and crimes. and i didnt. i didnt change.

[comtec]

193. Scary thought that the test thinks im more liberal than you

it must be broken.
I'm sure it meant to give you 317, and me 308 XD

[seabeyond]

198. ah hahahaha. nt

[snooper2]

217. 275 for me, you beat me by 1 :) average score for Americans 209.5

[seabeyond]

221. OMG.... in my best valley girl

you are a texan. my score is close to yours...

does that

no

tell me

no

does that make me like

a

texan

lol

teasing.

[snooper2]

224. we just tend to be more pragmatic

:)

[seabeyond]

260. not too long ago, my father actually called me pragmatic

he sounded almost apologetic as if he was insulting me, lol. reality, and i don't see it as an insult.

:toast:

[yellerpup]

64. 361

Extremely progressive.

[Dappleganger]

65. 372

[katanalori]

67. 345 "extremely progressive"

[NorthCarolina]

69. 331

[Vehl]

70. 334

Extremely Progressive

[PDittie]

72. 355

Higher than I thought, though as extremely progressive as I feel.

[malaise]

73. Your ideological score is 336/400

This makes you extremely progressive. The average score for Americans is 209.5

:applause:

[TonyMontana]

74. 390

[Bigmack]

75. 379.... But I'm disappointed there...

was no question about eating the rich. I'm for it.

[femrap]

315. do you have that bumper sticker:

End World Hunger. Eat the Rich.

I love it. I got into it w/ a dude who had a bumper sticker 'Extremely Rightwing.' I was behind him when he looked into his side mirror and I mouthed, 'Asshole.' He gave me the finger...I gave it back. Light turns green, he sits there. I lay on the horn....and I was all ready for him when he slammed on the brakes...hard. His poor Jeep rattled and some ugly crap came out of the tailpipe.

He also had a sticker: I support the troops, especially our snipers.

He was a young guy....looked like a nazi, actually.

[Rochester]

76. 313

[one_voice]

77. I scored 328. n/t

[Pryderi]

79. 326

[blueworld]

208. Me as well. n/t

[One Voice]

81. 349 .....nt

[MindandSoul]

82. 332. . .some questions were not really fair. . .needed some qualifications

for exemple: does free market work best. . .YEAH. . .if it is REALLY free, rather than being manipulated by big business as it has increasingly been for the last 20 years!

[Gin]

85. 292

[a la izquierda]

83. 351-Extremely progressive...

some of the questions were oddly phrased.

[struggle4progress]

84. 345 - extremely progressive

[RKP5637]

86. 390/400 n/t

Guess this puts me in the whacked out left now as an old time democratic moderate just wanting fairness and equality.

[Roland99]

88. 340

[LonePirate]

89. 353

Although a perfect score of 400 could easily be had if someone were to divine the scoring after the first question.

[baldguy]

90. 366

[Uzybone]

91. 367

[PSzymeczek]

92. 374/400

Extremely progressive. And damn proud of it.

[RKP5637]

102. +1000 +++ n/t

[Swede]

93. 309

[NNN0LHI]

94. A brazilian!

I was so liberal it hurt.

[pleah]

95. 351/400 :)

[Syrinx]

97. 345

[GoneOffShore]

99. 364 here

I guess that makes me some kind of pinko, liberal, hippie fuck.

[Douglas Carpenter]

100. 349

[scheming daemons]

104. 292

[Monique1]

113. I was shocked, scored a 396

[Nite Owl]

105. 376

[Historic NY]

106. 315

[Posteritatis]

107. 344. The composite index was an eye opener! (nt)

[AwakeAtLast]

109. I was just about to post about that!

Amazing breakdown!

[comtec]

195. it means that even the "low scoring" people here are miles ahead of the country

does that truly make us the fringe left on DU?

I've always thought the people here very reasonable, and thoughtful.

And I HAVE known some people that do fall off the chart (as do i on my bad days)

is the us so skewed to the right that moderates (I consider myself moderate, not very liberal) are considered leftists gorillas now?

very interesting window into what the official punditocracy sees as "moderate" and "progressive" now a days.

[mrs_p]

110. 374

[AwakeAtLast]

111. 335 - Extremely Progressive

Can't kick me offa here! :P

[NoSheep]

112. So many bullshit questions

[Raster]

114. Extremely progressive!

364

[Bitwit1234]

115. 332 BUT I missed questions 2 and 3 altogether but I was

stupid and clicked and it zoomed pass before I voted. I should have known better.

[mrmpa]

116. 345 here

[arthritisR_US]

117. 361. n/t

[tularetom]

118. 289 - please don't put me on ignore

I'm still "very progressive".

The average score was 209.5, but some of those questions really sucked.

[dsc]

119. mine was 339

but I know I was marked down on a couple for answering as it is now and not what I would like to see. The corporation question comes to mind. A corporation's primary responsibility is to make money for shareholders as things are now so that is how I answered.

[supernova]

120. 370 for me

:-)

[DotGone]

121. 348...Didn't think I would score so high

as I would classify myself as a moderate

[Alexander]

122. 360

Interesting to see the breakdown of responses by group.

[madmom]

123. Kicking for later when I have more time : )

[Godhumor]

124. 303 for me

Social policy definitely puts me way over to the progressive side.

[PADemD]

125. 324

[rasputin1952]

126. 347...

But I once took a thing like this that put me far left of Ghandi...:D

[unkachuck]

127. 375....one can never be too progressive....n/t

[blondeatlast]

128. 337/ nt

[BeHereNow]

129. 370/400 EXTREMELY Progressive.

Indeed.
BHN

[jillan]

131. 353 - extremely progressive....as are most who responded to this thread.

:toast: I guess it's official - DU is an extremely progressive website!

[Paulie]

133. 355 - So I'm a moderate at DU!

And a screaming liberal everywhere else. :)

[QC]

134. 360

[TheWraith]

135. I scored 361. nt

[Toucano]

148. Me too! n/t

[demosincebirth]

136. 301.

[TK421]

137. 10,000 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #@# and something!!!!

because, I'm more progressive than ANY OF YOU FUCKERS COULD EVER DREAM OF BEING!!!!@!$!

SERIESLY!@!!#$

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

138. 335

[nmbluesky]

139. 254/400 very progressive

Really? Am I? geez I don't know...

[izzybeans]

140. 368

[trackfan]

141. 370 n/t

[lapfog_1]

142. 390... and I wondering why it isn't 400!!! = n/t

[Lugnut]

143. 367 n/t

[Mimosa]

144. 284/400... what does that mean?

It said I am 'very progressive and the average score for Americans is 209.

I didn't want to vote 0s and 10s because they seemed so extreme. So, on many questions i was voting 1s and 2s and 8s and 9s, with a couple of 5s for questions which seemed ill defined.

[hfojvt]

165. that's what I thought too. It was rare for me to vote 0 or 10

many people here are proud of their extremism though. A score of 350 or greater makes an average of 8.75 which means the person is voting 0,1 or 9,10 for most answers with a few 8s thrown in.

[vaberella]

174. I did vote 0 and 10 for alot of them, but I had aload of 5s too.

I got a 315 for it.

[Regret My New Name]

184. Yeah, it's difficult because there are always shades of gray

So in order to take those into account, I too picked a lot of twos, threes, seven and eights. Even 1 and 9 seemed a bit much on some of them. I dunno, maybe I need to simplify how I view things?

[NobleCynic]

212. Yeah, I had a fair number of 5's and 7's as well.

Oddly worded questions on a scale like this leave so much open to interpretation.

[elana i am]

145. 365

[NotThisTime]

146. I'm a slacker, 340

[Liquorice]

147. 295 nt

[davekriss]

149. 351 here (nt)

[SDuderstadt]

150. Mine was 374

Probably reflects my pragmatic approach on some issues.

[OnyxCollie]

152. 371.

[Throd]

153. 6,071

[hyphenate]

154. I came in at 328.

I do hold pretty progressive views, but I'm worried I'm too high on the chart. It seems to me that that kind of a score could set a person up for disappointment every time, since most congressional office holders, as well as the executive branch, are not that far to the left.

I've pictured myself holding the kind of views as Hillary, so I amm further to the left than this administration in many ways.

[sakabatou]

155. 348

[CaliforniaPeggy]

156. Mine is 348/400...extremely progressive.

The average score is 209.5.

How about that?

[propagandagirl]

159. 360

[dmr]

160. 346

[Eric Condon]

161. 378/400

"Extremely progressive" according to the site.

[Citizen Worker]

162. 370. Retake!

[KillCapitalism]

163. 294...much lower than a lot of you.

Does that make me a tea partier? :rofl:

[Regret My New Name]

185. below 300 = ban :P

[AllenVanAllen]

164. 368

I scored left of Gandhi on a quiz a few weeks ago, so this doesn't surprise me at all.

[McCamy Taylor]

166. Hey, I only got 390/400 and I chose the most extreme lefty answer everytime.

Where are the other 10 points? Did I get 10 reactionary points for following directions?

[Jackpine Radical]

200. Mayge you hit a 1 instead of a ~ on one of the items.

[devilgrrl]

167. 361

eom

[kentuck]

219. Me, too.

peace

[Jamastiene]

168. 355/400

That makes you extremely progressive. The average score for Americans is 209.5.

[era veteran]

169. 321 n/t

[Divine Discontent]

170. 308. I'll take extremely progressive anyday. I can just imagine what some people I know would get

140-180!

[dkf]

171. 305. Extremely progressive? Me?

I was so sure I was a moderate.

[Adsos Letter]

172. 301 n/t

[vaberella]

173. 315

I supported a lot of capitalist questions...free market stuff. I am listed as extremely progressive and loving it.

[quaker bill]

175. 369

[PJPhreak]

176. 341

[rucky]

177. 338

[Flying Squirrel]

178. 366 nt

[Delphinus]

179. 315 - extremely progressive

Average is 209.5 - no *WONDER* I often feel I just don't belong.

[Enthusiast]

180. Extremely progressive! Yay! nt

[PVnRT]

181. 335

[craigmatic]

182. 376

[geek tragedy]

183. very progressive--293

Which makes me the resident rightwinger here, apparently.

[FreepFryer]

186. 379. (n/t)

[laylah]

187. 346 n/t

[comtec]

188. 317

"extremely progressive"
I've only ever claimed to be a moderate who thinks the best thing for the US right now is a very strong dose of liberalism to get it back on it's feet.

[LWolf]

191. 360. nt

[Shining Jack]

202. 360 ?

Another proof that the Professional Left is going around in circles !1!! :sarcasm:

[LWolf]

329. Heh.

THAT must be why I spend so much time feeling light-headed. I thought it was anger!

[WCGreen]

194. 346...

It's because I am an accountant...

I didn't answer 0 on some of the tax statements.

[UndertheOcean]

201. 326 n/t

[Generic Brad]

204. 348

Does that make me ideologically pure enough?

[Orsino]

205. 362.

Many of the questions, however, are too vaguely worded. What am I to make, for instance, of "Government regulation does more harm than good"? Do I acknowledge that weak, unenforced regulations allow for terrible abuses, or go with my general feeling that one of government's duties is to regulate to prevent harm? I went with the latter.

[myrna minx]

206. 357 - hey look at me, I'm a pinko!

:bounce:

[lonestarnot]

207. 373

:hi:

[CanonRay]

209. Got me a 336!

[Upton]

210. 334

[Robyn66]

211. 334

I didn't take the extreme numbers on some of them.

[Romulox]

213. Those questions represented a very specific kind of "progressivism"

Didn't really get at the issues that really matter to me, like workers' rights, inequality, the Drug War. 324

[carolinayellowdog]

214. 329

doesn't even seem to reach the median reported here

[jayfish]

215. 315

[hendo]

216. Why

Do these
"I'm more liberal than you" threads always show up here? And yes, most of those numbers are more liberal than I.

[seabeyond]

222. meh. really. you don't have to play. nt

[Javaman]

218. 362 nt

[philly_bob]

220. 296, maybe because I seldom chose 10 or 1. (nt)

[wndycty]

223. I came in at 360!

Nice

[olegramps]

225. 375 for ole gramps

[Hosnon]

226. 292. nt.

[SteveG]

227. 328 (nt)

(nt)

[NightHawk63]

228. 328 (nt)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

229. 366

[cyberswede]

230. 375 - no surprise there. n/t

[truebrit71]

231. 380. Part of the "un"professional left it would appear...

..

[NMMNG]

233. 374

Apparently I'm one of those evil radical progressives.

[Terry in Austin]

234. 364 here -nt

[L0oniX]

235. 335

[chimpymustgo]

236. 366. Extremely progressive.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

237. 374 a little more and I'd fall off the scale. nt

[ceile]

238. 329 interesting quiz...

[mod mom]

239. 341

[lumberjack_jeff]

240. 324. I think it's a little presumptuous to define "progressive".

Also, there's a question; "Corporations primary responsibility is to produce profit, not improve society."

That's absolutely true. It is government's job to oversee their activities and repeal their charter if they do not serve a public interest. Each corporation should exist at the suffrage of the people.

[stuntcat]

241. 332

:hi:

[PopSixSquish]

243. 317 - Extremely Progressive

Somewhere, my father, a proud self-proclaimed "Roosevelt Democrat", is smiling...

[Hansel]

244. 343

[Fleshdancer]

247. Same here! 343

:hi:

[The Wielding Truth]

245. 319 - Hey.I'm an Obama voter! This is bogus.

:wtf: :spray:

[bikebloke]

246. 352

But I've already known I was a commie heathen.

[Puglover]

248. Oh dear.

390. So left I squeak.

[Ikonoklast]

249. 344. I'm a Soshalist.

Some of the questions were somewhat fudgeable, however.

[byrok]

250. 340 n/t

[Greyskye]

251. 370 - And I had shades of gray

Not all of my answers were at one end or the either.

[JNelson6563]

252. 354

:toast:

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

253. I got a 329

:)

[WCIL]

254. 350

I thought I would be closer to 400.

[TonyMontana]

255. 390 (nm)

[nyc 4 Biden]

256. 366.

[Blue_In_AK]

257. 358 for me.

Extremely progressive.

[BrklynLiberal]

259. 337...Average for Americans is only 209???!!!!

Is that a random sample???

[seabeyond]

261. take note people. this is better than a poll. when people say this board is ALL center, welll.....

i am thinkin

not

[comtec]

277. that test, imho, is skewed to make people worried about bein lirul

several questions were pretty um... yeah (as discussed upthread)

While I love these threads just so i don't feel quite so out there (or alone), I also think that polls like this are designed to push a certain meme.

at the end of the say, all it does is scare people who score more than 200.

But I think the majority of the country is closer to my score (317) than 200 or below.

It's all about phrasing.

And those questions felt rather conservative in origin.

[seabeyond]

278. so i just took it again. as conservative as i knew how. somewhere i didnt answer right, BUT

i got 20/400

extremely conservative. average person 209.6

so, that tells me they are not just adding the numbers we hit cause i had to hit quite a few 10 to be conservative. they were switching the conserv/liberal questions around. and they used same definition as with conservative. and.... if the average is 209.6 then that tells us anyway, by a small number, people lean liberal....

living in a mass of red though... i dont know how the rest of the world feels, lol.

[xchrom]

262. 348

i had to give a little on a couple of questions.
do like a 3 instead of a 0.

[cherokeeprogressive]

263. 380 n/t

[Ezlivin]

264. 666

I was so far to the left that every direction from here was right.

:)

Actually I scored a 356.

[seabeyond]

268. show off

wink

[TheBigotBasher]

265. 318

Good quiz. Although the company question was strange as discussed above. Corporations have a legal obligation to maximise profits for their shareholders, some may choose to do otherwise but even then there is often a profit motive not too far behind.

[strawberryfield]

266. Too many feel good questions here

With many of the questions here, everybody who isn't absolutely evil would answer a particular way. The devil is always in the details, and being a progressive means taking nice platitudes and converting them into difficult choices.

[geardaddy]

267. 364

:D

[DevonRex]

269. 376

[Jankyn]

270. I got a 365. N/T

[kas125]

271. 358

[Sherman A1]

272. I came in at 370 so I suspect

I am conservative?????? :rofl:

[Zephie]

273. 328 extremely progressive

[RedEarth]

274. 301

[closeupready]

275. 338.

"Extremely progressive." :woohoo: :hi:

[AmandaMae]

276. 345 n/t

[PufPuf23]

279. 326

About 1/3 of the questions were not that well designed.

Interesting threads would be for DUers to use the same test based upon what they perceive as current US policy, teabaggerism, Obama, GOP, Palin, Dean, etc.

[RadicalTexan]

280. 297 - but I consider myself a socialist

The problem is, a lot of these questions are predicated on assumptions I don't share.

I have yet to meet anyone more "liberal" than I am in real life. I am not a progressive or a liberal - I am a radical.

Furthermore, if mainstream members of, say, the UK Conservative Party took this quiz, they'd be "extremely progressive." That's how far to the right our American political consensus is, objectively (and comparatively) speaking.

[felix_numinous]

283. 361

[EJSTES2005]

284. 340

[tilsammans]

285. 335!

I guess that means I'm a member of the Professional Left. :rofl:

[Arkana]

286. 361. Not bad.

[Bombero1956]

287. 388

[alterfurz]

288. 349

Capitalism: If it works so well, why do we have to keep bailing it out?
Socialism: If it's good enough for the bankers, it's good enough for the rest of us!

[malmapus]

289. 331 here. Very surprised.

I always have looked at myself as more "middle of the road", now I'm told that I'm extremely progressive.

[DailyGrind51]

290. 296

[Vinca]

291. 367 - not a surprise.

[stevenleser]

292. 339

[Zanzobar]

294. I'll bet you can't score lower than 10

Try it again. I couldn't get lower than 10.

[Rhiannon12866]

295. 312

I'm weak on understanding economic issues... :(

[SoxFan]

296. 261: "Very Progressive"

Of course, in the DU scheme of things, this makes me a knckledragging, right-wing troglodyte.

[proud patriot]

297. 342

I like this poll as it really shows the diversity of DU :-)

[MorningGlow]

298. 378

[alfredo]

299. 355

[HCE SuiGeneris]

300. 322 n/t

[GrantDem]

301. 354...

[southmost]

305. 376

so that makes me an extremist?

most questions seem black and white a bunch of 0 or 10 for answers

[Timbuk3]

306. 324

I'm sure it was affected by the wording of some of the questions. For example, spending in bad times and saving in good times is basic Keynesian economics, so it's hard to say I agree "more" or "less" with the government has to spend to stimulate the economy.

[Canuckistanian]

307. I'm awesomely progressive - 354

:D

[felinetta]

308. 354

[Ruby the Liberal]

309. 325. Avg is 209? Yikes!

Thanks for the link.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

310. 345.

[treestar]

311. 307 which it says makes me extremely progressive

[femrap]

312. 358. nt

[Faux pas]

314. 304 extremely progressive. Good find, thanks for sharing!

[ellie]

316. 364

[HughMoran]

317. 329 - pragmatic progressive

:thumbsup:

[Freetradesucks]

318. 356

nt

[Sandrine for you]

319. 329

[me b zola]

320. 368

Many of the questions were straight-up pre-dlc/"new democrat" Democratic Party platform stances.

[ZombieHorde]

321. 361. nt

[UrbScotty]

322. BEAT YOU! 354 here!

Well, Harvey, let's just say you and I are statistically tied!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

323. 371... baby!

I am a regular karl marx

[Pholus]

324. 350, but maybe holding back a bit... ;)

[ElboRuum]

325. 328...

What surprised me is some of the average scores for the various groups. DUers are way above those declaring themselves liberal Democrats.

[midnight armadillo]

326. 332

.

[jmowreader]

327. I got 370

I try to be slightly liberal...

[Tracyjo]

328. 355

[TrogL]

330. 309