Progressive and Conservatives

Today I took a quiz that would tell me how "progressive" I am. Here, you can give it a try.

I scored a mere 75 out of 400, which makes me "Extremely Conservative." I would have scored zero if the test were intelligent. Many questions were vague: "Immigrants today are a burden on our country (blah blah blah)." - okay, what kind of immigrant? One may enter the United States either legally or illegally, and each impacts our economy differently. I couldn't answer the question.

But "progressive vs. conservative" is asinine to begin with. There are two kinds of people and they don't break out as progressives or conservatives. One group are people who love freedom, and the other are progressives or conservatives who do not. Progressive and conservatives don't respect any freedom except for the handful of freedoms they happen to approve of.

Had more questions been phrased as "Should government force people to do x or should individuals choose to do x as they see fit?" then there would have been a useful difference.