{"id":672,"date":"2005-11-07T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=672"},"modified":"2005-11-07T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T00:31:00","slug":"the-american-political-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"The American political scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d just been debating with the Blogcritics editors where I stood on the American political scale (off the left-hand end, I was suggesting), then I came across this unusually intelligent (but very American) politiical quiz. (Sorry, I&#8217;ve forgotten how I got there now.)<\/p>\n<p>So it seems I&#8217;m not off the scale, just at its very edges. (And I&#8217;m still trying to work out how the question of computers writing novels relates to your politics &#8230;)<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><FONT size=\"3\">You are a<br \/>\n<FONT size=\"4\"><B>Social Liberal<\/B><\/FONT><br \/>\n<FONT size=\"3\">(80% permissive)<\/FONT><\/p>\n<p>and an&#8230;<br \/>\n<FONT size=\"4\"><B>Economic Liberal<\/B><\/FONT><br \/>\n<FONT size=\"3\">(10% permissive)<\/FONT><\/p>\n<p>You are best described as a:<\/p>\n<p><FONT size=\"+2\"><U>  <B>Socialist<\/B><\/U><\/FONT><br \/>\n<TABLE cellSpacing=\"0\" cellPadding=\"0\" width=\"375\" border=\"0\">  <TBODY>  <TR>  <TD width=\"281\"><\/TD>  <TD width=\"93\"><\/TD><\/TR>  <TR>  <TD width=\"281\"><\/TD>  <TD vAlign=\"top\" align=\"left\" width=\"93\"><IMG src=\"http:\/\/is1.okcupid.com\/graphics\/politics_you.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><br \/>\n<TABLE cellSpacing=\"0\" cellPadding=\"0\" width=\"375\" border=\"0\">  <TBODY>  <TR>  <TD width=\"281\"><\/TD>  <TD width=\"93\"><\/TD><\/TR>  <TR>  <TD width=\"281\"><\/TD>  <TD vAlign=\"top\" align=\"left\" width=\"93\"><IMG src=\"http:\/\/is1.okcupid.com\/graphics\/politics_you.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href='http:\/\/www.okcupid.com\/politics'><b>The Politics Test<\/b><\/a>  on <a href='http:\/\/www.okcupid.com'><b>Ok Cupid<\/b><\/a><br \/>\nAlso: <a href='http:\/\/www.okcupid.com\/oktest3'>The OkCupid Dating Persona Test<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d just been debating with the Blogcritics editors where I stood on the American political scale (off the left-hand end, I was suggesting), then I came across this unusually intelligent (but very American) politiical quiz. (Sorry, I&#8217;ve forgotten how I got there now.) So it seems I&#8217;m not off the scale, just at its very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}