World's Smallest Political Quiz

I can remember when we were a "melting pot" and simply "Americans" instead of everything hyphenated and divided. We lose our potential as long as we're divided.

You just said you were Conservative and Libertarian, SSG. That's pretty much the same thing as American, so you're good.

CPT (Join to see) - Thanks sir... I needed that

SSG Pete Fleming - In fact, it's more than that. It's very closely aligned with where the Founders would have landed, probably more toward the top of the diamond than the right, but still very much in that quadrant. Aligned with those who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to create this experiment in Liberty is a pretty good place to be if you've also taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic...
Sadly, today's political definition (or at least common usage) of the term Conservative no longer means "one who conserves the tenets of the Republic and the Constitution which created it." Similarly, Liberal no longer means one willing to let others live their own lives in their own ways without being required to conform to an externally imposed standard.
Maybe that's why, when required to identify a political philosophy, I choose "anarcho-capitalistic Constitutional originalist" - usually stuck with "Other" since the full version won't fit in the checkbox.

5 labels you are not into

Only one label is important... American!

They are the ones with their heads down asking the question "How did this all run off of the rails?" It can be confusing because there is a conflation of the terms "Centrist" and "Moderate". On quizzes, like this one, they are indistinguishable. Centrist implies a view of the middle as a set of principled positions. Moderate implies a view of the center as a compromise between left and right. Of course, one can be both a centrist and a moderate. In either case, people that fall outside the center tend to look at it as the "mushy middle".

There is a Centrist Party, but it doesn't put candidates on the ballot and it isn't clear that it has much active membership http://www.uscentrist.org.

Most centrists tend to work within the two large parties. Webb, Pataki, Graham, Clinton, Christie, Kasich. Most third parties in the US tend to run toward ideological extremes or advocate for a very narrow set of issues. Current laws in the US are heavily unfavorable to third parties. Ballot access and federal election funding is difficult and have very high legal thresholds, candidates my not be nominated by more than one party, our "winner take all" system of elections is in opposition to plurality voting, and Gerrymandering allows the two parties to keep dominant and create electoral maps the hinder third parties.

The US electorate tends to be fairly centrist/moderate, but since centrists tend toward low participation in primary elections...

CPT John Sheridan - Excellent summary. I love the mushy middle!