{"id":1555,"date":"2008-10-08T21:45:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T21:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2008-10-08T21:45:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T21:45:46","slug":"man_bites_dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/08\/man_bites_dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Bites Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given that there&#8217;s no escaping politics at the moment (not even on vacation &#8212; I saw lots of evidence that Obama is going to <i>own<\/i> San Francisco), I thought I&#8217;d take the political quiz that&#8217;s been floating around to see if I am what I think I am. The results are entirely unsurprising:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiz2d.com\/quiz\/Social_Liberal.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Social Liberal on political map\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quiz2d.com\/quiz\/resultGraph.php?picfile=SocialLiberal.png&amp;personal=86.7&amp;economic=41\" border=\"0px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You want government out of people&#8217;s personal lives, but you appear to desire some continued government control over people&#8217;s economic activities. There is no political party that represents your views. The Green Party does run many candidates with similar views, but the overall Green Party platform is much more socialistic than you are. You would need a mix of Democratic, Green, and Libertarian politicians in office to get the balance of freedom and social justice you desire. The ratio between these depends on how high up your dot is on the chart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 12% of the takers of this quiz scored in this area, 18% for all liberals outside the centrist circle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even though I expected results along these lines, I do think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familygreenberg.com\/index2.php\/2008\/10\/getting-along-with-everybody\/\">Brian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/burlaki.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/outed\/\">Ilya<\/a> are correct when they note that the questions are pretty broad and omit some important issues, not to mention that the available answers didn&#8217;t always completely mirror my actual opinions. Still, I&#8217;d say this is fairly close&#8230; take it and see how you fare!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that there&#8217;s no escaping politics at the moment (not even on vacation &#8212; I saw lots of evidence that Obama is going to own San Francisco), I thought I&#8217;d take the political quiz that&#8217;s been floating around to see if I am what I think I am. The results are entirely unsurprising: You want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}