Ya know, looking at the way those choices are phrased, I wouldn't have to know a thing about the current American political situation to know that A is correct. It's a simple straightforward statement, while B is a vague, sweeping generalization, with a healthy dose of implied paranoia, of the kind that nobody could defend when pressed for details.

But I don't think the answers are deliberately rigged. A and B really are honest statements about the respective beliefs of liberals and conservatives. A wasn't even controversial until the last few decades of rightwing propaganda; but now, at a time when the right is showing its contempt for science and rationality and its hatred of anyone or anything different, B has become frighteningly widespread.

The chasm between left and right has become enormous. The more I'm presented with the kind of stark choices represented by A and B, the happier I am to call myself a liberal.