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RE: What's to the right of fascist?
September 17, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Slight conservative lean on economic issues (I believe in regulated capitalism), liberal on social issues (I'm against religion and criminalizing victimless activities), I think I'd be best classed as a "moderate libertarian".
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RE: What's to the right of fascist?
September 17, 2010 at 1:29 pm
I think I see a pattern.
Free thinkers will vary widely on the economic scale but uniformly tend toward libertarian rather than authoritarian on the social scale. I've not seen anyone who's above the horizontal line.
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RE: What's to the right of fascist?
September 17, 2010 at 2:07 pm
(September 17, 2010 at 1:29 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: I think I see a pattern.
Free thinkers will vary widely on the economic scale but uniformly tend toward libertarian rather than authoritarian on the social scale. I've not seen anyone who's above the horizontal line.
It is interesting. I hope more people wander by and take the test because it seems this pattern may be very telling of where many atheists and skeptical theists lie on the political scale.
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RE: What's to the right of fascist?
September 17, 2010 at 2:45 pm
I for one hate politics, but it was a fun test none-the-less, and I love quizes.
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RE: What's to the right of fascist?
September 18, 2010 at 2:00 am
What's to the right of Fascism?
Theocracy.
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