{"id":402,"date":"2005-09-20T13:54:15","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T18:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=402"},"modified":"2005-09-20T13:59:58","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T18:59:58","slug":"im-not-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Aw&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was a fascist, social and intellectual elitist.  Can I still be those?<\/p>\n<p>I made this my first edict: I would dictate that all persons must pass a test of intelligence and social conscience before being allowed to have any say in legislation, including voting in their representation in government.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table style='border:1px solid black'>\n<tr>\n<td align=center> <FONT size=\"3\"> You are a <CENTER> <BR> <FONT size=\"4\"><B>Social Liberal<\/B><\/FONT> <BR> <FONT shmolor=\"a8a8a8\" size=\"3\">(65% permissive)<\/FONT><BR> <\/CENTER> <BR> and an&#8230; <CENTER><BR> <FONT size=\"4\"><B>Economic Liberal<\/B><\/FONT> <BR> <FONT shmolor=\"#a8a8a8\" size=\"3\">(20% permissive)<\/FONT><BR> <\/CENTER> <BR> You are best described as a:<BR> <BR><FONT size=\"+2\"><U><CENTER><B>Strong Democrat<\/B><\/CENTER><\/U><\/FONT> <\/FONT><br \/> <TABLE cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" id=\"thetable\" name=\"thetable\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" background=\"http:\/\/is3.okcupid.com\/graphics\/politics\/chart_political.gif\"> <TBODY><TR height=\"281\"><TD width=\"225\"><\/TD><TD width=\"149\"><\/TD><\/TR><TR height=\"93\"><TD width=\"225\"><\/TD><TD align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"149\"><IMG src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is3.okcupid.com\/graphics\/politics_you.gif\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE> <br \/> <TABLE cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" id=\"thetable\" name=\"thetable\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" background=\"http:\/\/is3.okcupid.com\/graphics\/politics\/chart_basic.jpg\"> <TBODY><TR height=\"281\"><TD width=\"225\"><\/TD><TD width=\"149\"><\/TD><\/TR><TR height=\"93\"><TD width=\"225\"><\/TD><TD align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"149\"><IMG src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/is3.okcupid.com\/graphics\/politics_you.gif\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE> <\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href='http:\/\/www.okcupid.com\/politics'><b>The Politics Test<\/b><\/a>  on <a  href='http:\/\/www.okcupid.com'><b>OkCupid Free Online Dating<\/b><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I was a fascist, social and intellectual elitist. Can I still be those? I made this my first edict: I would dictate that all persons must pass a test of intelligence and social conscience before being allowed to have any say in legislation, including voting in their representation in government. You are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-6u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":672,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=672","url_meta":{"origin":402,"position":0},"title":"Perhaps you can trust this Apple, Eve.","date":"10\/3\/2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Found on Digg, 8 reasons Windows users don't switch. 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