Left/Center-Left/Center-Right/Right

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Say which political category (Left, Center Left, Neutral, Center Right, Right) applies to your beliefs on the following issues:

Abortion
Affirmative Action
Artwork Funding
Assault Weapons Ban
Campaign Finance Reform
Capital Punishment
Concealed Carry
D.C. Statehood
Defense Funding
Environment
Euthanasia
Faith Based Initiatives
Farm Subsidies
Flag Burning Amendment
Gay Adoption
Gay Marriage
Medicare/Medicaid
Minimum Wage
School Vouchers
Racial Profiling
United Nations
War on Iraq

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D.C. Statehood-i'm presuming left=make it a state, so center-right (give it rep., but not statehood)

The leftwing view would be to give the district statehood.  Your view is probably center-left.

Farm Subsidies-left=keep them or scrap them? I say scrap them, with a few basic exceptions.

The leftwing view is in favor of farm subsidies, rightwing view; against.

Flag Burning Amendment-left (disagree, right?)

Yes.

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If I put in the answer 'Right', would it mean that I support it?

Yes, although there are many conservative libertarians or strict constitutionalists who oppose it.

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Abortion - Left
Affirmative Action - Right
Artwork Funding - Right
Assault Weapons Ban - Right
Campaign Finance Reform - Right
Capital Punishment - Left
Concealed Carry - Right
D.C. Statehood - Center-Right
Defense Funding - Center-Left
Environment - Center-Left
Euthanasia - Left
Faith Based Initiatives - Center-Left
Farm Subsidies - Right
Flag Burning Amendment - Left
Gay Adoption - Left
Gay Marriage - Left
Minimum Wage - Left
School Vouchers - Center-Right
Racial Profiling - Left
United Nations - Center-Left
War in Iraq - Center-Left

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Abortion - Left
Affirmative Action - Center
Artwork Funding - Left
Assault Weapons Ban - Right
Campaign Finance Reform - Right
Capital Punishment - Left
Concealed Carry - Center
D.C. Statehood - Left
Defense Funding - Left
Environment - Left
Euthanasia - Left
Faith Based Initiatives - Left
Farm Subsidies - Center
Flag Burning Amendment - Left
Gay Adoption - Left
Gay Marriage - Left
Medicare/Medicaid - Left
Minimum Wage - Left
School Vouchers - Left
Racial Profiling - Left
United Nations - Left
War in Iraq - Left

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Although, I always thought that "right" meant maintain policy and "left" meant change it and "hard right" meant to repeal a policy.

Not for the purposes of this test.  That would apply to a literal interpretation of the words liberal and conservative, though.

Abortion
Left: Support the right to choose; oppose all or most restrictions
Center-Left: Support the right to choose; support some restrictions such as PBA ban
Center: Keep legal in first trimester, and for emergencies afterwards
Center-Right: Only legal for emergencies, and support most restrictions
Right: Support all commonly proposed restrictions as well as a ban on all abortions except for the woman's life

I was going to go through each of them, but got bored with this already.   Although I will say on D.C. Statehood that leftwing is to support it and rightwing is to keep the status quo of taxation without representation.

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I've always thought that the term "reactionary" was rather derogatory.  Left and right seem more neutral.

I don't really care if the analysis offends religious republicans, catholics, or "conservative humanists."  The center is nominally pro-choice.  Even I would have told you that when I was a hardcore pro-lifer.  Although this has to do more with the center not wanting to turn back rights or change the status quo on a social issue than actively supporting the right to abortion.

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They wouldn't favor a complete overturn of Roe, but they'd support a gradual chipping away through Casey and Carhart and so on.  If abortion were illegal nationwide today, the center position would be what is currently 'center right': only supportive for rape, incest, life.  Maybe health of the woman too.