are you a neoconservative?

Take this quiz to find out. [edited to remove broken link]

Two stupidest things about this game, at least the first two I noticed:

* Question 7, "What do you think of America's superpower status?" The four choices are:

"Unrivaled US power is crucial to America's defense."

"US superpower status was key to warding off Soviet aggression during the cold war."

"American power was vital to the victory of freedom over totalitarianism."

"American power can spread peace and democracy across the globe."

Every single answer assumes that American power is a good thing. And perhaps it is, but the absence of any alternative vision of American power makes the question silly.

* Liberals "oppose American imperialism." This is pretty much nonsense, but "liberal" is as far left as the game allows. American liberals are as imperialist as any other mainstream American political group. Some folks on the further reaches of left and right might oppose American imperialism ... liberals are nowhere near the further reaches of the left, and they don't oppose American imperialism.

Meanwhile, the game encourages the marginalization of left-wing thinking. Pat Buchanan gets his props, as an example of "modern isolationism," but there are no equivalent figures from the left. Buchanan gets to be part of the mainstream, albeit on the margins, but his left-wing counterpart, whoever that might be, isn't anywhere to be found. The political spectrum engaged in this game goes, not from left-wing to right-wing, but from Jimmy Carter to Pat Buchanan, that is, from centrist to right-wing nut-bag. This suggests that you can be part of the game if you're a neo-fascist, but if you're to the left of Jimmy Carter, you might as well stay home.