NationStates Jolt Archive

4th political quiz I've taken and here is the verdict...
According to http://www.politopia.com/quiz_index.php3

NEO, a stereotypical Northwesterner

"Freedom to do whatever you'd like, as long as you don't interfere with the equal freedom of others."

My name is Neo, and I'm a software designer on the NW coast. I usually work from home, or from my sailboat while on an extended cruises. I've got friends of all stripes-some are making a lot of money in the software industry, some are gay, some are economists, some use recreational drugs, some are very religious-what they all have in common is that they're all very open-minded and tolerant.

I tend to be optimistic about the future. I believe that the most important natural resource is human creativity and that people should be able to pursue their hopes and dreams without interference from anyone else. While I recognize the importance of enforcing property rights and contracts, I think that in general, government interference in the marketplace only stifles human creativity. Politically, I describe myself as a libertarian. I loathe paying taxes, I'm disgusted by the "war on drugs," which is really just a war on people, and I think it's certainly true that "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

I am by Milton Friedman again, I am on all of these quizes. ;)


NW-You would feel most at home in the Northwest region. You advocate a large degree of economic and personal freedom. Your neighbors include folks like Ayn Rand, Jesse Ventura, Milton Friedman, and Drew Carey, and may refer to themselves as "classical liberals," "libertarians," "market liberals," "old whigs," "objectivists," "propertarians," "agorists," or "anarcho-capitalist."

4th political quiz I've taken and here is the verdict...
According to http://www.politopia.com/quiz_index.php3

NEO, a stereotypical Northwesterner

"Freedom to do whatever you'd like, as long as you don't interfere with the equal freedom of others."

My name is Neo, and I'm a software designer on the NW coast. I usually work from home, or from my sailboat while on an extended cruises. I've got friends of all stripes-some are making a lot of money in the software industry, some are gay, some are economists, some use recreational drugs, some are very religious-what they all have in common is that they're all very open-minded and tolerant.

I tend to be optimistic about the future. I believe that the most important natural resource is human creativity and that people should be able to pursue their hopes and dreams without interference from anyone else. While I recognize the importance of enforcing property rights and contracts, I think that in general, government interference in the marketplace only stifles human creativity. Politically, I describe myself as a libertarian. I loathe paying taxes, I'm disgusted by the "war on drugs," which is really just a war on people, and I think it's certainly true that "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
Go thou and read Robert Heinlein's The moon is a harsh mistress.

TANSTAAFL! :D

That one's pretty amusing. I got Northwest. Right next to Drew Carrey actually.

West, although I'm too the more southerly side of it.

West-You are a Westerner-a civil libertarian-which means that you advocate a diminished role for the government in the personal realm. You are more or less pleased the government's role in the economic realm.

Rawr. Centerville.

South-You are a Southerner-an egalitarian-which means that you advocate an increased role for the government in the economic realm. You are more or less pleased the government's role in the personal realm.

Too USian to be taken by me. None of the options are relevant.

None? That's highly unlikely.

I'm NW.

Huh ...

Centerville-You would feel most at home in Centerville, which means that you are more or less pleased the status quo-you think the US government has just about the right amount of control over your economic and personal decisions. Your neighbors include democratic and republican party leaders and others who call themselves "moderates" and "centrists."

I thought I answered a lot more to the left. I guess you have to take the most extreme answer either way to get out of Centerville.

Huh ...

Centerville-You would feel most at home in Centerville, which means that you are more or less pleased the status quo-you think the US government has just about the right amount of control over your economic and personal decisions. Your neighbors include democratic and republican party leaders and others who call themselves "moderates" and "centrists."

I thought I answered a lot more to the left. I guess you have to take the most extreme answer either way to get out of Centerville.

Same here, I dont aprove the US Goverment's economic, social nor political decisions, and, Im not an US'er.

Same here, I dont aprove the US Goverment's economic, social nor political decisions, and, Im not an US'er.
Aww, come on, we have some snazzy beaches ... amber waves of grain ... purple mountains majesty ... must be something ... ;)

SW- You would feel most at home in the Southwest region You advocate a large degree of personal freedom and a large degree of government control over the economy. Your neighbors include such folks as Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader, Hillary Clinton (ewwww - bullshit), and Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, and may refer to themselves as "liberals," "left-wing liberals," "civil libertarians," "democratic socialists," "egalitarians," or "anarcho-socialists."

SW- You would feel most at home in the Southwest region You advocate a large degree of personal freedom and a large degree of government control over the economy. Your neighbors include such folks as Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader, Hillary Clinton, and Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, and may refer to themselves as "liberals," "left-wing liberals," "civil libertarians," "democratic socialists," "egalitarians," or "anarcho-socialists."
I wanna be an "anarcho-socialist"!

None? That's highly unlikely.

No, it's typical, as all the questions were US centred. "What should the government do?" and then followed by options that only make sense in a US context.

I wanna be an "anarcho-socialist"!

then start killing authority figures and steal their stuff so you can redistribute it to the poor

No, it's typical, as all the questions were US centred. "What should the government do?" and then followed by options that only make sense in a US context.

I'm not in the US, either, but I took the questions as abstractions.

NW-You would feel most at home in the Northwest region. You advocate a large degree of economic and personal freedom. Your neighbors include folks like Ayn Rand, Jesse Ventura, Milton Friedman, and Drew Carey, and may refer to themselves as "classical liberals," "libertarians," "market liberals," "old whigs," "objectivists," "propertarians," "agorists," or "anarcho-capitalist."

Is that supposed to suprise me...

NW-You would feel most at home in the Northwest region. You advocate a large degree of economic and personal freedom. Your neighbors include folks like Ayn Rand, Jesse Ventura, Milton Friedman, and Drew Carey, and may refer to themselves as "classical liberals," "libertarians," "market liberals," "old whigs," "objectivists," "propertarians," "agorists," or "anarcho-capitalist."

Damn right.

I'm not in the US, either, but I took the questions as abstractions.

I tried doing that - the result I got was, accordingly, nonsensical.

Centerville.

I tried doing that - the result I got was, accordingly, nonsensical.

Then clearly you have no imagination. *nod*

NW-You would feel most at home in the Northwest region. You advocate a large degree of economic and personal freedom. Your neighbors include folks like Ayn Rand, Jesse Ventura, Milton Friedman, and Drew Carey, and may refer to themselves as "classical liberals," "libertarians," "market liberals," "old whigs," "objectivists," "propertarians," "agorists," or "anarcho-capitalist."

Then clearly you have no imagination. *nod*

There is very little imagination that one can have about there being a claim that one supports the actions of the US government when what one was doing was supporting those of the Swedish one.

There is very little imagination that one can have about there being a claim that one supports the actions of the US government when what one was doing was supporting those of the Swedish one.

Well...One must imagineer 'US' into the word 'Swedish'.

Well...One must imagineer 'US' into the word 'Swedish'.

Still doesn't change the absurdity of the result.

Still doesn't change the absurdity of the result.

Maybe your political views are actually very absurd. *nod* That makes sense.

Ah Centerville...

Just as well. It's a shorter distance to send riot police out to the fringes of civilization from here. Damn extremists....