Think You’re a Liberal? Take This Test and Just Try to Outscore Me

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As if I hadn’t already outed myself as the pinkiest of pinko fag commies, I stumbled upon this gem at Slate’s XX blog. It’s an interactive quiz from the Center for American Progress to gauge just how liberal or conservative you are. Here’s how the Slate-ettes scored:

“Twelve of us took the quiz, and on a scale of 0 to 400 (0 is the least progressive; 400 is the most progressive), we came out with an average score of 245. To put that in context, the mean score for liberal Democrats is 247 and 160.6 for conservative Republicans. Our median is somewhere in the mid-290s; our high is 313, and our low is 112.

Fascist heifers! I scored 332. Boo yah!

The average American drags their Neanderthal asses in at only 209.5.

So, if you outscore me, let’s put on our hemp shoes and our tie-dyed bandannas, strap our home-birthed babies on our backs, and go hug some whales.

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