This is how the 2024 presidential candidates scored
on the World's Smallest Political Quiz.
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This is how the 2024 presidential candidates scored
on the World's Smallest Political Quiz.
According to the quiz, the candidates were as follows:
Adam Crowley and Timothy Kistner were left-liberals.
Jim Dallas was a moderate.
Charlie Leal and
Christian Shelton were authoritarians.
NOTE: This quiz is not perfect. Occasionally, it is wrong about a person's ideology. For example, very conservative people have been found to be liberals and vice-versa. In the 2024 election, Republican Charlie Leal and Democrat Christian Shelton were found to have the same exact ideology (Left-authoritarian; 40% personal self-governors and 20% economic self-governors).
Click here to see the candidate's responses to the specific questions.
Libertarians are self-governors in both personal and economic matters. They believe government's only purpose is to protect people from coercion and violence. They value individual responsibility, and tolerate economic and social diversity.
Left-liberals prefer self-government in personal matters and central decision-making on economics. They want government to serve the disadvantaged in the name of fairness. Leftists tolerate social diversity, but work for economic equality.
Moderates favor selective government intervention and emphasize practical solutions to current problems. They tend to keep an open mind on new issues. Many moderates feel that government serves as a check on excessive liberty.
Right-conservatives prefer self-government on economic issues, but want official standards in personal matters. They want the government to defend the community from threats to its moral fiber.
Authoritarians want government to advance society and individuals through expert central planning. They often doubt whether self-government is practical. Left-authoritarians are also called socialists, while fascists are right-authoritarians.
| Military service should be voluntary (No draft). | ||
| Crowley | Yes | "Strongly agree" |
| Dallas | Maybe | "I believe that we should retain the draft for military crises." |
| Kistner | Yes | |
| Leal | Yes | "We should not rule out a draft. We must be able to defend our country and preserve the democracy our forefathers died for." |
| Shelton | Yes | |
| Government should not control radio, TV, the press or the Internet. | ||
| Crowley | Yes | "Strongly agree" |
| Dallas | Yes | "Although recent court decisions have upheld the First Amendment, the spectre of censorship still looms over academia. Discourse is key to democracy; we must protect the freedoms of speech and press with a near religious fervor." |
| Kistner | Yes | "It depends on the level of regulation -- I believe in some to keep wealthy corporations from taking advantage of buyers (I-net) [Internet]. I think that the TV, radio, and the press are fine the way they are." |
| Leal | Yes | "The First Amendment protects us from these controls. We must never allow our freedom of speech or the freedom of the press to be controlled, but we must be responsible. There are certain subjects that hide under the First Amendment, such as the promotion of racism." |
| Shelton | Yes | |
| Repeal regulations on sex for consenting adults. | ||
| Crowley | Yes | "Strongly agree" |
| Dallas | Maybe | "There are certainly several laws on the books in some areas which criminalize behaviors which are neither immoral or unhealthy, and these laws should be repealed. However, despite my belief that sex is a highly personal issue, the government should have the power to prevent overtly unhealthy behaviors, in order to protect public safety." |
| Kistner | No | "Legalized prostitution is abominable." |
| Leal | No | |
| Shelton | No | |
| Drug laws do more harm than good. Repeal them. | ||
| Crowley | Yes | |
| Dallas | Maybe | "Although I believe in 'common sense' deregulations such as allowing the medicinal use of marijuana and the legalization of industrial hemp production, I am totally opposed to the complete legalization of drug abuse. It is unhealthy, it is immoral, and it is destroying our nation. We must continue the war on drugs, and we must win." |
| Kistner | Yes | "[Legalize] only marijuana for medicinal purposes." |
| Leal | No | "Our nation must redeclare the war on drugs. We must have mandatory jail time for all drug pushers. We must abolish parole for drug pushers that sell to children. Our country cannot afford to lose the war on drugs." |
| Shelton | No | |
| Let peaceful people cross borders freely. | ||
| Crowley | Yes | |
| Dallas | Yes | "Our nation's past was built by immigrants. Our nation's future shall be built by immigrants also." |
| Kistner | Yes | "Legal immigrants are [should be] allowed in, but there should be heavier border patrols to keep illegals out." |
| Leal | No | "We must have security at our borders. Without security we would become vulnerable to a number of problems." |
| Shelton | No | |
| Businesses and farms should operate without government subsidies. | ||
| Crowley | Yes | |
| Dallas | Maybe | "Although institutionalized aid programs, like farm subsidies, weaken private initiative, targeted subsidies, [such as] ethanol subsidies, for example, are important in overcoming the inertia inherent in the marketplace." |
| Kistner | No | "The government should aid small business and farmers but not large ones." |
| Leal | No | "In order to keep our economy strong we must subsidize business so in turn they will produce jobs. In order for American farmers to continue feeding the rest of the nation they must be subsidized. America cannot afford to be dependent on other nations for our food." |
| Shelton | Maybe | |
| People are better off with free trade than with tariffs. | ||
| Crowley | Yes | "Strongly agree" |
| Dallas | Yes | |
| Kistner | No | "Tariffs protect American workers." |
| Leal | Yes | "The prosperity of our country depends on expanding markets across the world." |
| Shelton | Maybe | |
| Minimum wage laws cause unemployment. Repeal them. | ||
| Crowley | No | "Strongly disagree" |
| Dallas | No | |
| Kistner | No | "The minimum wage is necessary to keep corporations from mistreating their employees." |
| Leal | No | "Minimum wage laws are there to protect the working and poor classes from being taken advantage of." |
| Shelton | No | |
| End taxes. Pay for services with user fees. | ||
| Crowley | No | "Strongly disagree" |
| Dallas | Maybe | "Certain public services, such as education, welfare, and Social Security, could be partially privatized, provided that the privatization doesn't lead to a system in which private interests come before public ones. In general, government should continue to meet its obligations to the people through taxes." |
| Kistner | No | "Taxes are a necessity for running the government. There should be heavier taxation on large corporations and the richest 10% of Americans but lowered on everyone else." |
| Leal | No | "The tax system has flaws and must be re-tooled, but user fees would result in the decline of quality of our public services such as schools, roads and police protection." |
| Shelton | No | |
| All foreign aid should be privately funded. | ||
| Crowley | No | "Strongly disagree" |
| Dallas | No | "It is the government's exclusive responsibility to deal with other governments." |
| Kistner | No | "America should get out of places where we don't belong, but we need to maintain strong relations with our allies." |
| Leal | No | "Our country's economy is tied to foreign markets and foreign aid keeps our economy strong." |
| Shelton | No | |