an 11 Dimensional political test

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Religion - 0
Family - 6
The Government - 0
The Military - 4 (stateless or government operated?)
The Police - 6 (stateless or government operated?)
Civil society - 8
Education - 8
Free-markets - 10
National Identity - 6
Homogeneity - 2
Social Spending - 0

0, 6, 0, 4, 6, 8, 8, 10, 6, 2, 0

Anyway, it does not ask "do you support the family", but "is 'family' important in a good society"

Religion
Family
The Government
The Military
The Police
Civil society
Education
Free-markets
National Identity
Homogeneity
Social Spending

2,5,5,2,2,10,10,7,1,1,7

Religion: 0
Family: 2
The Government: 1
The Military: 0
The Police: 1
Civil society: 1
Education: 7
Free-markets: 1
National Identity: 0
Homogeneity: 0
Social Spending : 3

Religion 6
Family 8
The Government 2
The Military 7
The Police 8
Civil society 4
Education 6
Free-markets 8
National Identity 5
Homogeneity 1
Social Spending 1

6,8,2,7,8,4,6,8,5,1,1

Religion - 0: Nuff said
Family - 10: The family unit is critical to the psychosocial development of an individual.
The Government - 3: Most things are best left unf*cked by macro-management.
The Military - 7: National security and the sustenance of sovereignty are essential for the nation.
The Police - 3: Crooks fear armed citizens a lot more than cops.
Civil society: - 9 These type of institutions have no strings attached and can do a lot of good for the communities.
Education - 6: The best lessons in life are learned outside the safe and controlled environment of an institution.
Free-markets - 8: Although there has to be some regulation to prevent things like deforestation and massive pollution, for the most part regulation only serves to stagnate the economy and drive people out of business.
National Identity - 0: It doesn't pertain to the livability of the nation at all.
Homogeneity - 3: Although diversity is a good thing, some sort of commonality makes things sail smoothly.
Social Spending - 3: I believe in an absolute bare minimum safety net and social programs geared towards teaching a man to fish rather than giving a fish a day. Although private charity is much more efficient than social welfare, it still isn't efficient enough to be relied on alone.

0, 10, 3, 7, 3, 9, 6, 8, 0, 3, 3.

AceofSpades -

I was responding to this from Astrogeek:

"Also, to say one supports "the family" is usually interpreted to mean they support bigoted and backwards social values--which I most certainly do not."

For myself I ignored such a reading.

I salute single-parent families.

To Philologos, at least in Canada the left has adopted quite a bit of "pro-family" rhetoric (for instance, the Liberal platform of 2011 was called a plan for Families or something along those lines) and the Manitoba NDP talks about what "matters to Manitoba families".

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXCOkStmI7Y&feature=channel_video_title[/youtube]

Master Pedant, intriguing.

There is a tension between the State, be he Oedipus Rex, Parliament, Glorious Leader, or the Party [outward political stance is irrelevant on this plane] wanting / needing to BE your family and wanting to be PART of your family. And where there is a tension there is a pendulum.

Noted in language history a tendency - languages tend to simplify, erode,. declutter over time. But simplification HERE means there must be an increase in complexity THERE. So languages tend to become more complex over time. Both happen at once because languages are complex and can simplify grammar while complicating phonology and so on.

I think there is a similar process in societies - there is a range within which thdey can work, take a tendency too far and things fall apart.

family how I meant it is not just the nuclear family but the extended and intentional family as well.
next time the quiz will say knobs and how much do you like a thing.

Religion- 0. 'Nuff said.
Family- 6.
The Government- 0.
The Military- 0.
The Police- 2.
Civil society- 10.
Education- 20.
Free-markets- 0.
National Identity- 0.
Homogeneity- 2.
Social Spending- 6.

Current societal structure presumed or no???

0, 6, 0, 0, 2, 10, 20, 0, 0, 2, 6.