2004-10-06 - 6:37 p.m.

three more political tests

Following on from the political compass test, I have stumbled onto a few more, and have taken the tests.

Australian political party preference indicator

This test gives you 30 statements to give your opinion on and then tells you which parties you would end up preferring. Here's my take:

• Statement 3 contains two sentences. I agree with the first and disagree with the second, but the test does not give me an option to indicate this. It assumes that I cannot think for myself and that if I disagree with one statement I must agree with one alternative given. The writer has obvious contempt for anyone who may agree with the statement. I said that I disagreed, since I disagree with the statement in its entirety, but this would not give an accurate reflection of the opinion sought.
• I said that I disagreed with Statement 7, as such assistance should not be given at all regardless of means, again, contempt for opinions contrary to the writer's.
• I disagree with Statement 16 - they should be sent back immediately, again, I disagree but doing so gives the wrong impression.

Despite this, it still managed to tell me the parties in the same order of preference as I would put them:

• One Nation: 69%
• National Party: 63%
• Liberal Party: 60%
• Labor Party: 46%
• Democrats: 44%
• Greens: 38%

The Student Center's political test (American)

This was the least sophisticated of the tests and in shows in the fact that many of the statements mean the same thing in practice. I mean, who would consider themselves generally opposed to abortion, but think that it is ok in the case of rape? A human life is a human life. Obviously this is one area where my mental faculty lacks an understanding of how people think, or perhaps more accurately, don't think. Now I'm being terribly judgemental. Carry on.

So it came up with the incredible conclusion:

"Your political views are Conservative. Your political party is most likely Republican."

I assume they have never heard of the Constitution Party, or consider it too insignificant.

Vote Match - test your political preference (Europe)

This one is for the European Union. I obviously am a sovereignist and am saddened that so many apathetic Europeans find it so easy to throw away the millennia of history of their respective countries and defer to the twelve stars. So therefore most of the questions from thesis 2 and onwards are irrelevant, so I have answered them according to their implications. For example:

• Thesis 2: There shouldn't be an EC, so how its President is elected is academic, so I have answered the question on the implication of legitimacy of the EC, and so on.
• Thesis 6 presupposes that member nations will meekly surrender control of their own borders, which has already happened in many countries but which hardly has overwhelming support. I disagreed not because there should be no border guard, but because each member state should have exclusive control of its territories.
• Thesis 12 exists due to the hypocrisy of France and Germany who compel smaller states to the letter of EU law but themselves show it no respect. So of course one's initial reaction is to disagree in the face of the contempt of France and Germany, but doing so would further erode sovereignty, so I have agreed in spite of the implication in doing so that the EU should dictate economic policy to its members, which could not be more wrong.
• Thesis 16 proposes perhaps the worst violation of sovereignty yet in the event of a truly federal Europe it would be necessary.
• Thesis 24 has the gall to suggest that the EU should not only dictate the law to its members, but their moral values as well.

I could go on but the point for each of these issues is not whether you agree with this or that decision of the EU in regards to policing, economics, immigration or whatever, but whether an EU even has the right to make any of these decisions at all. Europe truly is lost.

The thought is probably more nervous than it ought to be.

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