(10:55 AM) | Adam Kotsko:

Vote Intelligently

I know a lot of my readers enjoy taking online personality tests and basing their lives around the results. For those of you in that group, I propose you visit SelectSmart.com's Presidential Candidate Selector Tool. By answering a variety of questions, you too can learn to your despair that the only candidate you agree with is the Rev. Al Sharpton and that everyone else is diametrically opposed to your most heartfelt concerns.

I ended up agreeing 100% with "Green Party Candidate," 88% with Dennis Kucinich, 87% with "Socialist Candidate" (a point of pride for me), and 83% with Howard Dean. The link to learn more about "Socialist Candidate" was fairly amusing to me, showing how irrelevant the treasonous left really is in our nation. I agreed 10% with President George W. "Sugar Britches" Bush, slightly more than my 7% agreement with Pat Buchanan.

So I guess I have to vote for the "Green Party Candidate" next election, thus making me, in Orwell's charming turn of phrase, "objectively pro-fascist" (i.e., a vote against the Democrats is a vote for Bush). Sometimes I regret taking these online tests, because the voyage of self-discovery, of gnosi seautov, is always dangerous -- but following the Socratic injunction is the only way to grow as a person.

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