Glenn Beck Quiz: Nolan Chart Quiz
Fox TV host Glenn Beck asks America to take the Glenn Beck quiz using the Nolan Chart to check which category you belong in: Liberal, Libertarian, Conservative, and Progressive.
Beck wrote: Conservative used to mean small government, responsible, family values. Today (at least in the media) conservative means “controversial” — that always drives me nuts. Whenever Michael Moore gets introduced on a show it’s: “Pleasantly plump, award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is here.” Me? “The controversial, divisive, polarizing Glenn Beck is here… we’d kill him if we could, but it would be caught on tape.”
How about liberal? Well, I don’t think that one ever had a good connotation, did it? It finally got so bad, liberals started calling themselves “progressives.” Hillary Clinton says she prefers to be labeled a progressive. She knows what that really means, but the schlubs of America will describe it like this: “Dude, I’m a progressive, man… we are, like, totally progressing to the future… where there’ll be progress and stuff.” And who could be against that? It’s progress!
America is so flooded with political labels that it’s hard to know what anything really stands for. How many of those activist groups have you seen? With all-American sounding names like “The Center for American Greatness” or “Citizens for a Wickedly Awesome America.” It’s all getting a little confusing and there’s a reason for that: They don’t want you to know what they really stand for. Otherwise, you wouldn’t join it.
I believe that most people in this country — no matter what their label is — are inherently for whatever gives them the most freedom. Except for the radicals who actually believe in the far-left stuff.
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Thanks for writing about the Quiz and the Nolan Chart. I just wanted to clarify a quick point though:
The Advocates created the first Nolan Chart-based Quiz, with David Nolan’s input and approval, in 1987. We also created the diamond-shape for the Nolan Chart and labeled it the World’s Smallest Political Quiz. David Nolan is on our board and is a strong supporter of the Advocates.
NolanChart.com is NOT David Nolan’s website.He has for decades publicly credited the Advocates for Self-Government with rescuing his political chart from obscurity and bringing it to the prominence it now enjoys. Nolan has said that if it weren’t for the Advocates, the Nolan Chart may well have disappeared.
On NolanChart.com, they acknowledge that they based their Quiz on ours. They use the diamond-shaped Nolan Chart that we created and publicize. Their ten questions also use much of the same wording that we originated.
You can find more information and take the shorter, more acccurate quiz at http://www.theAdvocates.org/quiz
Jeff Fulcher
Director of Programs
The Advocates for Self