talkpolitics | Off Topic Fun? The Livejournal Wingnut Test

We've been yelling at each other a lot lately. And there have been many threads with lengthy accusations of each other occupying some bizarre place on the political spectrum. With that in mind, I thought I could dig into my rating scale creation skills and help us all identify where we are on the spectrum from "entirely reasonable political discussant" and "utter and total whackadoodle wingnut".

1) On an average week, how many hours do you spend listening to AM Talk Radio or viewing a cable news channel for anything other than the weather or a traffic report?

a) 5 hours + 3 points
b) 10 hours + 8 points
c) 20+ hours + 15 points

2) Complete the following sentence --

"The people who disagree with me politically..."

a) "...are generally good people who have drawn different conclusions than myself." - 5 points
b) "...are misled and/or ill informed or they would agree with me." + 5 points
c) "...are responsible for most of what is wrong in the world today." + 10 points
d) "...are lying power-hungry hyena vermin." + 15 points

3) On an average week on Livejournal, how many threads of 5 or more responses to the same poster do you have?

a) none - 5 points
b) 3-5 + 3 points
c) 5-10 + 8 points
d) I lost count after 12 + 15 points
e) A lot but they are all about my cat - 10 points

4) Do you currently have more image macros than pictures of your family on your lj scrapbook?

+ 5 points

5) On your hard drive? + 10 points

6) Which of the following IS a government conspiracy?

a) The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment - 5 points
b) The Moon Landing + 5 points
c) Flouridation of Drinking Water + 10 points
d) The Attacks of September 11, 2001 + 15 points
e) Obama's Birth Certificate + 15 points

7) Have you ever called people you disagreed with "sheeple"? + 5 points

8) More than once a week? + 10 points

9) Have you purchased anything from Goldline in the past two years? + 10 points

10) Are any of the following stock expressions of yours in argument (close variation counts)?

a) "So what you are saying is..." + 5 points
b) "You have obviously never studied..." + 5 points
c) "Show me where I said..." + 5 points
d) "Democraps" + 5 points
e) "Rethuglicans" + 5 points
f) "Democan & Republicrat" + 5 points
g) Anti-choicer + 5 points
h) "Pro-abortion" + 5 points
i) "FASCIST!" + 10 points
j) "SOCIALIST!" + 10 points
k) "That's a really interesting point I had never considered before, thank you." - 20 points

11) The mainstream media's biggest problem is...

a) "...that it is selling an entertainment product pitched at the lowest common denominator in the marketplace." - 5 points
b) "...that it is a left wing driven conspiracy to distort the news against conservatives." + 10 points
c) "...that it is a corporatist driven conspiracy to support big business over truth and justice." + 10 points

12) Does your car have more bumper stickers than wheels? + 5 points

13) Do you keep old email notifications to use as material in later arguments? + 5 points

14) Are they filed by username? + 10 points

15) Does LJ drama have a tag for you? + 5 points

16) Do you have more political communities than people in your friends' view? + 5 points

17) Are you arguing in more than one community at a time RIGHT NOW? + 10 points

18) If I copied some text from your most recent post into Google will I find it on several other blogging sites? + 5 points

19) Which statement is MOST accurate?

a) President Obama is the most liberal/socialist President we have ever seen. + 10 points
b) President Obama is a corporatist tool selling out the people to Wall Street. + 10 points
c) WASN'T EVEN BORN IN AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!! + 20 points
d) None of the above. - 5 points

20) When a dozen or more posters all seriously question your reasoning, you...

a) ...thoughtfully reconsider to see if they are correct? - 5 points
b) ...disregard in favor of the people who agree with you? + 5 points
c) ...ignore well thought out replies and argue with people trolling you? +10 points
d) ...mutter "If I had my gun you'd all be dead by now." + 25 points

scale 0< - 265+ total points

If you score...

Under 0 points: Congratulations! Not only are you not a wingnut, you are probably one of the most mellow and reasonable people a person is likely to meet online. Unicorns comes out of the forest to rest their heads in your lap and gold finches follow you wherever you go. It is entirely possible that you are the next incarnation of the Buddha.

0-66: You are not a wingnut in any reasonable sense of the term. It is possible that you get into some heated arguments with others, but it would take a seriously poor judge of character to accuse you of being a wingnut.

67-132: Did you know that it is almost Springtime in the Northern Hemisphere? Some time very soon, there will be daffodills and lilacs and it will be warm enough to take a nice, long walk without a coat on. I am not saying that you are a wingnut, per se, but you might want to consider enjoying the calmer things in life.

133-199: People are starting to get worried about you and it is difficult to really blame them. You have moved past provocative and stubborn and into territory where others don't think it is possible to have a discussion with you. The growing silence that your posts are met with is not the flawless victory of your stunning logic, but the large mass of livejournal giving up on ever speaking with you again.

200 points and above: I'd call you a wingnut, but I am not sure if Western Union can deliver telegrams to your remote cabin in the Idaho Panhandle. If and when you decide to return to civilization, the rest of us would appreciate it if you avoided any and all clock towers.