Worried you are a neo-con?

The Christian monitor has the quiz to settle the question once and for all. If you find out you are... please find the EXIT door to your RIGHT!

http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/quiz/neoconQuiz.html

I was a 'liberal'. Surprise Suprise!

:)

In their documents as seen on the PNAC website and from stuff I've heard from Wolfowitz, it seems they try to emphasize the interventionism they stole from liberals. As such, I don't really trust this test enough to use as a basis to tell people to leave.

The neo-con answers are sick. And I live under their leadership. I'm not having a good night.

Based on your answers, you are most likely a liberal. Read below to learn more about each foreign policy perspective.

And I'm also an isolationist.. hmm

I never knew...I always thought I was a liberal...I must have hit the wrong buttons...or my "votes" weren't counted right...here we go again!:)

some of those answers were very close.... and I might have gone another way on several. See my post below.

And some of those answers were pretty darn close in meaning -- in several cases I spent a while choosing between at least two. It's an interesting test. Takes a while and makes you think. I honestly had no idea what my "assessment" would be given the slight shadings on some questions.

That was an interesting quiz.

that doesn't square with my understanding of Wilson (especially his strident racism and poor treatment of Latin America); and I found Carter to be an unlikeable and ineffective prude. He did better later, though.

Neocon quiz results

Based on your answers, you are most likely a liberal. Read below to learn more about each foreign policy perspective.



Isolationist

The term isolationist is most often used negatively; few people who share its beliefs use it to describe their own foreign policy perspective. They believe in "America first." For them, national sovereignty trumps international relations. Many unions, libertarians, and anti-globalization protesters share isolationist tenets.

Isolationists…

Are wary of US involvement in the United Nations
Oppose international law, alliances, and agreements
Believe the US should not act as a global cop
Support trade practices that protect American workers
Oppose liberal immigration
Oppose American imperialism
Desire to preserve what they see as America's national identity and character
Historical isolationist: President Calvin Coolidge

Modern isolationist: Author/Commentator Pat Buchanan



Liberal

Liberals…

Are wary of American arrogance and hypocrisy
Trace much of today's anti-American hatred to previous US foreign policies.
Believe political solutions are inherently superior to military solutions
Believe the US is morally bound to intervene in humanitarian crises
Oppose American imperialism
Support international law, alliances, and agreements
Encourage US participation in the UN
Believe US economic policies must help lift up the world's poor
Historical liberal: President Woodrow Wilson

Modern liberal: President Jimmy Carter

The question is how to spread this message to people who voted repub without understanding what they were voting for. My experience has been that many people voted B* despite the fact that they agreed with next to none of his policies.

"Neoconservative" means nothing to the Bush voters I've seen. Some of them hear the "conservative" part without hearing the "neo" part. What big a deal can such a small word part mean? Neo = new and new is always better, right?

Lakoff, ho, folks. New + conservative = new, shiny money-saving, cautious (even reluctant) interventionist.

Were you to pair the term "neocon" wih the description given by the CSM (posted below), not one of them would make the link.

"-Want the US to be the world's unchallenged superpower
-Share unwavering support for Israel
-Support American unilateral action
-Support preemptive strikes to remove perceived threats to US security
-Promote the development of an American empire
-Equate American power with the potential for world peace
-Seek to democratize the Arab world
-Push regime change in states deemed threats to the US or its allies"

I'd have to argue that the people I know who voted Bush here were isolationists in the CSM model. So our job might be to point out the differences between the isolationist model people thought they were voting for, and the neocon model, which they did, in fact, vote for but I doubt that they support.

Because most of them required two of the responses working together. Do something drastic about terrorism or nothing at all isn't a realistic choice. There's that word again...

Neocon quiz results

Based on your answers, you are most likely a liberal. Read below to learn more about each foreign policy perspective.

A LIBERAL!

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And that deserves a good kick!:kick: :kick: :kick:

I was actually a bit surprised... When I saw the catagories at the end, I would have figured Isolationist... but lo and behold... Liberal

Gee, I didn't already know that! :dem:

Maybe this was actually a hidden psych test from the government and our IP addresses have been logged for future "re-education" efforts.

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