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Post by schlager7 on Oct 5, 2005 15:40:08 GMT -6
I had forgotten this particular online test. Give it a spin. Bleeding heart liberal or reactionary conservative. Do you lean closer to Ghandi and the Dalai Lama or Stalin? www.politicalcompass.org/As to final scores, Economic left/right the minus number is how far left of center you are, positive how far right of center. It's similar on the Social Libertarian/Authoritarian scale. Minus is more libertarian, plus more authoritarian. Oh, and upon re-taking it, I was: Economic Left/Right: -7.63 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.59 It put me pretty deep into the "libertarian left" as they define those terms. It looks like I'm somewhere between the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela...
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Post by nemo on Oct 5, 2005 18:00:36 GMT -6
Your political compass Economic Left/Right: -3.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.64
My dot seems to make a triangle with those two, but closer to the intersection of the axis and pointing at it. Guess I'm a bit more conservative than you.
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Post by Geezer on Oct 5, 2005 18:07:12 GMT -6
I Say, Old Boy, VERY curious!
-8.13 Economic (same twice) -5.03 Libr. vs Author'n. (lost 0.2 on 2nd run)
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Post by JEC on Oct 5, 2005 19:48:18 GMT -6
My political compass
Economic: Left/Right: 0.13 Social: Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.38 I guess I am a bit more moderate than you guys, but still despise authority. It is interesting to me that no major leader is found in that quadrant.
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Post by LongBlade on Oct 5, 2005 20:35:17 GMT -6
OH, d**n! I broke the test!!!
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Post by Aldo N on Oct 5, 2005 23:01:59 GMT -6
Does this help?
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Post by fox on Oct 6, 2005 7:08:02 GMT -6
For myself: Economic Left/Right: -2.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.62 I am apparantly more conservative than Ghandi, whatever that means... Also here's some text and another chart from their site with a purely American focus: The US Presidential Election 2004 We've scrutinised the statements and, more tellingly, the voting records of the hopefuls of some of the parties, in response to requests from many of our American visitors. If you're unhappy because a particular candidate isn't included, spare a thought for the rest of the world who don't have a Political Compass chart for any of their national figures yet ! And please, don't even mention the vice presidential candidates !
Within the United States , of course, real (and imagined) differences between the mainstream candidates are more greatly magnified. However, compared to other western democracies, especially those with a finely-tuned system of proportional representation, most mainstream political activity in the US is concentrated over a more narrow ideological range. We note too that conservative Democrats tend to have more in common with Republicans than with the liberals within their own ranks.
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Post by Aldo N on Oct 8, 2005 20:10:24 GMT -6
Economic Left/Right: -7.50 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.18
I seem to be somewhere betrween Geezer and Schlager7.
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Post by Ivanhoe on Oct 12, 2005 12:39:17 GMT -6
Economic Left/Right: -0.63 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.77
Looks like I am near Gerhard Schroder and the Pope.
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Post by LongBlade on Oct 12, 2005 22:13:22 GMT -6
Oh, Dear God!!!!! I tried it again... I'm a freakin' neo-liberal anarchist!!!!! And... I really do like Ayn Rand's novels!
They're gonna take away my Republican card!!![/i]
The usual understanding of anarchism as a left wing ideology does not take into account the neo-liberal "anarchism" championed by the likes of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman and America's Libertarian Party, which couples law of the jungle right-wing economics with liberal positions on most social issues. Often their libertarian impulses stop short of opposition to strong law and order positions, and are more economic in substance (ie no taxes) so they are not as extremely libertarian as they are extremely right wing.
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