Are you familiar with online "memes," those little quizzes a person takes and answers about themselves? A right popular one is the Political Profile meme. You answer like 20 questions and it breaks down your score by Social Issues, Personal Responsibility, Fiscal Issues, Ethics, and Defense and Crime. You get a Conservative percent and a Liberal percent. For example, mine looks like this:
**Your Political Profile:**
Overall: 10% Conservative, 90% Liberal
Social Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Personal Responsibility: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
Fiscal Issues: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Ethics: 0% Conservative, 100% Liberal
Defense and Crime: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?
http://www.blogthings.com/...
However, a co-worker of mine took the quiz. She is 19 and identifies as a conservative. However, like most Americans, she has not really done much political thinking. I've found most of her politics come from her religion (Christianity). For example, Thou Shall Not Kill to her means no abortions but also no capital punishment. Interestingly, she has a brother serving in Iraq. She is unsure how Thou Shall Not Kill applies to him.
But anyway, here was her score on the meme:
**Your Political Profile:**
Overall: 40% Conservative, 60% Liberal
Social Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal
Personal Responsibility: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
Fiscal Issues: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal
Ethics: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
Defense and Crime: 25% Conservative, 75% Liberal
How Liberal Or Conservative Are You?
http://www.blogthings.com/...
She posted this to her blog with the retort "whatever Im conservative." Kind of sums up the doublethink of the current conservative movement, doesn't it?