re: #247 MittDoesNotCompute

It’s a ridiculous quiz on many levels.

For example, the question:

• The government needs to do more to make health care affordable and accessible.

A ‘rock-ribbed’ conservative could honestly answer “Completely agree” to this, because in their (sadly deluded) mind, the government could do more by deregulating the insurance industry, by imposing at the federal level that insurance companies could sell to other states, etc. However, ‘conservatives’ taking this test know that the ‘completely agree’ position would label them as a Democrat, so, even if they think it’s true that the government could take action that would result in more affordable health care, they’ll answer ‘Completely disagree’.

Likewise, “I never doubt the existence of God” somehow means my Catholic parents and all the other observant, religious Democrats aren’t sincere in their religion or something. A real question would be “We should teach creationism in schools”, not about simply having faith.