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PG saw a link on facebook. Click here, and find out what kind of liberal you are. Once there, you can click again, and find out what kind of conservative you are. PG took these tests in February of 2009. It might be fun to see what the current versions are. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress .
Both tests are courtesy of About.com, a part of The New York Times Company . (In 2009, the tests were on a site selling two books… “How to argue with a conservative”, and it’s obvious counterpart.) The first question, then and now, is a list of bumper stickers. You are asked to choose one. This is a tough question for PG, who does not want the policeman behind him to know what he thinks. The two stickers chosen are “Another Former Fetus for Life” and “May the Fetus You Save Be Gay”. Synchronicity is reality.
Question two is the same for cons, but different for libs. Neither one has an answer that PG likes, so he is stuck with the lesser evil. For a political poll, that is appropriate. Question three is, for libs, “A second civil war has just broken out in America. Who is to blame?” (PG is offended that the phrase “War between the states” was not used.) The answer today was “Sarah Palin—for going rogue and leading a secessionist movement to crown herself as “Queen of Jesusland”. This question is used for number four on the conservative side. The answer chosen was “Barack Obama — for accidentally nuking Texas after misreading his TelePrompter” (Urban renewal special William T. Sherman once said that he owned hell and Texas, he would live in hell and rent out Texas.)
For question six on the lib side, they used the same answers as in 2009. Of course, all the questions are the same, on both sides of the tennis court. The old test only had seven questions, so we may see some creativity in the update. And maybe not. In number ten, the last question of this ordeal, you are asked to choose some americans you would like to chisel onto Mt. Rushmore. (Chiseling a living person onto a cold mountainside sounds very painful.) The liberal PG chose Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks, Harvey Milk, and Angelina Jolie. The conservative PG chose Revs. James Dobson, Rick Warren, Joel Osteen, and Saint Carrie Prejean.
If you read this much, without skipping ahead to look at the pictures, you must be interested in the results. The liberal PG learns: ” You are a New Left Hipster, also known as a MoveOn.org liberal, a Netroots activist, or a Daily Show fanatic. You believe that if we really want to defend American values, conservative hatriots must be exposed and mocked for every fanatical, puritanical, paranoid, fact-allergic, reality-challenged, obstructionist ideal for which they stand.” On the conservative side, “You are a Flag-Waving Everyman, also known as a patriot. You believe in championing liberty over tyranny, apple pie over sushi, and that God gave us a two-day weekend so we could enjoy football and NASCAR.”