Conseravative Quiz- What kind of conservative are you?

[Hygro]

Conservativism I can comprehend. It's the American conservative subculture I don't understand. Like, plenty of Americans are just normal people who hold conservative opinions, your Bshup-es and suchlike, and I can understand them and where they're coming from. But there's also a certain portion of the population, about ten, maybe twenty percent, who live in this distinct, seemingly enclosed subculture with its own set of political, ethical and aesthetic assumptions, and that seems to be the perspective the test is written from. The closest equivalent I can think to in the UK are the Loyalists, who nobody would mistake for typical or even representative of mainstream British conservative opinion. It's not a way of thinking I can get myself into without suspending my own identity and beliefs, without inventing a character and answering as he would answer, which would render the test pretty pointless.

This was true for a lot of us doing the test.

 

[Traitorfish]

This was true for a lot of us doing the test.

I get the impression that a lot of Americans don't really appreciate the extent to which the conservative subculture is a Thing, in a way which there's really no liberal or progressive subculture.

West Kentucky perhaps

Ah, but Kentucky is already West Kentucky, on account of Pennsylvania.

 

[Snorrius]

Unsurprisefully, as certified Cafcian Russian Nationalist™, upon temporary conversion into American I've got:

«You are an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative or Tea Partier. You believe in smaller government, states' rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"»

 

[Hygro]

I get the impression that a lot of Americans don't really appreciate the extent to which the conservative subculture is a Thing, in a way which there's really no liberal or progressive subculture.

You mean the Zerg?

They assimilate all manners of things into their... thing and look at you with wide open eyes and bright smiles and will take you at very very face value.

They run gunshops with a barbed wired parkinglot in the back with RVs that have expensive paintjobs of babies with captions that read "I am not a choice" next to a bunch of off road vehicles. The gunshop references America, Jesus, and Guns all in the same and painting and logos. To them, it is all redundant. It is all the same thing. To them, freedom is that thing and is nothing else.

 

[Zack]

You have an unhealthy obsession, Hygro.

 

[Hygro]

with?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Freedom?

Reality?

Hypocrisy?

All of these?

 

[Hygro]

Maybe the first two, and I suppose I overthink them enough to call them unhealthy obsessions

I think Zack might be referring to Starcraft, however.

 

[SamSniped]

Answered everything as ironically as possible, chose "America, **** Yeah!", and got "Freedom Crusader."

In all seriousness, I'm more socially liberal, so this doesn't really work for me

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Maybe the first two, and I suppose I overthink them enough to call them unhealthy obsessions

I think Zack might be referring to Starcraft, however.

No amount of obsession with Starcraft can be considered unhealthy. There's always intravenous feeding.

 

[Zack]

Yeah, I was referring to him always bringing up Starcraft randomly.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Yeah, I was referring to him always bringing up Starcraft randomly.

As if it were his fault that Starcraft is so iconic that it can supply a useful metaphor in any conversation.

 

[bhsup]

Answered everything as ironically as possible, chose "America, **** Yeah!", and got "Freedom Crusader."

In all seriousness, I'm more socially liberal, so this doesn't really work for me

This is your brain on New England. Don't let your brain be on New England. Move to Missouri today.

 

[SamSniped]

This is your brain on New England. Don't let your brain be on New England. Move to Missouri today.

I'm afraid that I'm a trans-European, VRWC. I feel as if I'm a European liberal brainwashed with and happily accepting muh Murican freedoms and capitalism

 

[onejayhawk]

According to these I am a Flag Waving Eco-Avenging Everyman.

I did find the liberal quiz confusing. There multiple knocks on Wall Street, which is a political ally.

J

 

[Antilogic]

Depends on the type of liberal and the issue, my good Kansian.

 

[onejayhawk]

Depends on the type of liberal and the issue, my good Kansian.

You have a point. President Obama is not a liberal's liberal, but he is the investment banker's best friend.

J

 

[Angst]

You are an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative or Tea Partier. You believe in smaller government, states' rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"


Uh. No. Lol. I'm very pro-state