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Originally Posted by questor
Actually, it's quite easy to determine who is liberal or conservative. Just a few questions about important issues. Age, height, gender doesn't matter.
You can tell by reading posts on this site. This is a philosophical difference and does not always change with age, although the young are usually more liberal and the older are more conservative. Hooray for maturity and experience!
Is it possible that all thought is generated from the initial neural mass one inherits and even though influenced by the environment is still filtered through those genetically contolled neurons?
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You know, reading this post inspired me to put your theory to the test, questor. Below are 11 simple
agree or
disagree statements (I like the number 11 because it is one louder) that I came up with that cover a good range of important social, economic, foreign, and domestic issues. These statements are simple and easy to answer with just a yes or a no, and I expect that won't be a problem for you because qualifying simple questions is something a liberal, right-brained thinker would do, right?
Please answer whether you agree or disagree with each of these statements, and we'll see how easy it is to determine from this quiz whether you are liberal or conservative.
1. The government should be obligated to maintain a balanced budget and avoid deficit spending of taxpayer dollars.
2. Offshoring is generally a good idea and should receive tax incentives because a company's ability to generate large profits from cheap foreign labor is more important than providing employment to American workers.
3. The government should give taxpayer subsidies to large, private, highly profitable corporations, particularly those who contribute the greatest campaign contributions to law makers.
4. It is a bad idea to help people in need because it just makes them lazy and dependent.
5. Access to healthcare should only be for those who can afford it.
6. Since sexual orientation is not included as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the government and private institutions should be allowed to discriminate against those who are recognized as homosexual.
7. It is better to have orphanages and/or the streets filled with unwanted children than to allow Roe vs. Wade to continue to be the law of the land.
8. The government should allow teacher led prayer in public schools to include all faiths such as Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Scientology, Wicken, etc.
9. Since the United States is exceptional and the only remaining superpower in the world, if another nation opposes the foreign policy of the US Government, we should deem them a hostile threat, and use our superior military to preemptively effect regime change, and prop up a new government that is favorable to our interests.
10. It is okay for government officials to break the law as long as they claim it is in the interests of national security.
11. War is good because it stimulates the ecomomy.
I believe it should be very easy to tell whether someone is liberal or conservative simply by whether or not they agree with these statements.
They seem very simple to respond to in my opinion. Would you agree, questor? Do your answers confirm that you are a conservative? You didn't find yourself wanting to qualify any of them, did you?
