There's a political quiz online that, despite some problematic and outdated questions, seems much more accurate and insightful in laying out one's political ideology than other such quizes I've seen. It lists political ideologies in order of how closely they fit to you. My list seems pretty accurate (assuming by "left-libertarian" we mean market anarchist in the Sam Konkin strain, rather than a centralist libertarian of the DC strain). One of the problems is it asks what local governments should be "allowed" to do. I say it depends, in a sense, on who, the people or another government, is doing the allowing or not. Here's my order when I answered the best I could:
Left-libertarian, Paleolibertarian, Libertarian, Radical, Paleoconservative, Liberal, Third Way, Centrist, Conservative , Neo-Conservative.
Notice I'm more of a paleolib than a straight-up lib, more a radical than a paleocon, but also more of a paleocon than a liberal, and more liberal than conservative. I'm also more liberal than third way, which makes sense. And neocon is at the very end. Seems amazingly accurate. Indeed, the list almost perfectly reflects, in order, how close I feel with these various groups. On other tests out there, that only do liberal and conservative, I end up in one or the other or the middle, which seems silly. And on the popular quiz of many libertarians, even a Neal Boortz would wind up libertarian. That can't be right.
