Wow we are a diverse bunch aren't we? *not*

Unless I missed one------welcome the first poster to this thread who score a + on the L/R scale (YYEEEAAAHHHHH hhhhhhhhhwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaa!) the crowd stands to their feet with wild applause.

Basically, I can tell you from a conservative to libertarian's point of view, the thing was unanswerable (I suppose you all saw it that way a bit too).

I could have written an essay on most questions.

Any question with an absolute (never, always, every, none, etc) forced me to choose one of the middle choices---even though I knew the concept they were driving at.

Almost all the questions that were to "weed out" the conservative mind, essentially misrepresents, or misunderstands (intentionally?) the reasoning behind a conservative ideology.

As a Bible-believing kinda guy, you'd have thought I'd score higher on the "authoritarian" scale. But that's the type of misunderstanding that these kinds of questionaires usually lead to.

One small change that I've noticed in "liberal" thinking over the last 20 years or so....In the most general of terms (of course). The liberal considers himself so non-authoritarian that the baby that goes out with the bathwater is practical authoritarianism.

The best example I can give is the different approaches in education---specifically reading. The liberal had a tendency (especially 20-30 years ago) to follow a sort of reasoning that went; "if there is an exception to a rule, the whole "rule" is illegitimate". So, for example, because phonics has exceptions, the whole concept was abandoned.

I am seeing lately that pragmatism has made certain demands on the liberal mind and, while liberalism is taking up the fight for ever more and more social acceptance of what was previously tabu, It has moderated somewhat on just how much a government can do (the "cradle to grave" ward of the state populace is mostly abandoned----to overstate my point).