Where are you on the political compass

[Kaitlyn]

Who's the other right-libertarian?  That "1" up there isn't me, because I voted left-lib by mistake.

[Kaitlyn]

Think about it: "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." And so forth.

Isn't that a perfect description of a family? If you get down to it, doesn't a family run under Marxist principles? I think old Karl simply took the concept of a family, with everyone working for the collective good, and scaled it up to a society.

Lovely idea, but unfortunately it doesn't scale up.  Most people will bust their asses, or even sacrifice their lives, for their kids, their spouses or their parents. Probably for their siblings. Maybe for their close friends. Occasionally you see it in close-knit communities, like the Amish. But very few people extend that sort of loyalty to total strangers. And a lot of people won't do that even for their own families.

It looks like a basic fact of biology - we're all got an upper limit on the numbers of others that we can actually perceive and interact with as people.  The standard number is about 150, i.e. Dunbar's Number.

[goingdown]

I voted left-libertarian. What is right-libertarian? Actually here in Europe at least there are no.

[goingdown]

Social darwinism can be also part of ''left''-wing dictatorship/authotarian goverment. It is not simply an economic issue.

[goingdown]

My favourite political joke is the  ''Compassionate conservativism''. Ideology with no compasion at all.

[Lisbeth]

None of the above. I'm a leveler. I sit in the middle and move the opposite direction from the mass of the population in the hopes of keeping the boat from capsizing.

I voted left-libertarian. What is right-libertarian? Actually here in Europe at least there are no.

They would be mostly traditional Republicans, the ones the Neo-Conservatives pushed out of the party over the last ten years. Right libertarians believe that government should be fiscally conservative and stay out of people's lives.

[soldierjane]

None of the above. I'm a leveler. I sit in the middle and move the opposite direction from the mass of the population in the hopes of keeping the boat from capsizing.

I voted left-libertarian. What is right-libertarian? Actually here in Europe at least there are no.

They would be mostly traditional Republicans, the ones the Neo-Conservatives pushed out of the party over the last ten years. Right libertarians believe that government should be fiscally conservative and stay out of people's lives.

I don't know, paleoconservatives don't seem as hostile to government as right wing libertarians, those have a nasty Randian bent.

[lady amarant]

None of the above. I'm a leveler. I sit in the middle and move the opposite direction from the mass of the population in the hopes of keeping the boat from capsizing.

Hmmm... You sound like this Chaotic Neutral level 7 Druid I used to know.

~Simone.

[Lisbeth]

None of the above. I'm a leveler. I sit in the middle and move the opposite direction from the mass of the population in the hopes of keeping the boat from capsizing.

Hmmm... You sound like this Chaotic Neutral level 7 Druid I used to know.

~Simone.

No, I'm Neutral Neutral. The balance of the universe is everything.

[lady amarant]

No, I'm Neutral Neutral. The balance of the universe is everything.

LOL. He was all for balance! Just had a scary way of achieving it! (Oh, this human settlement is really putting pressure on that forest and it's gnoll inhabitants over there ... let's destroy it with a magnified creeping doom spell. 

When you utter the spell of creeping doom, you call forth a mass of centipede swarms (one per two caster levels, to a maximum of ten swarms at 20th level), which need not appear adjacent to one another.

~Simone.

[goingdown]

I scored quit moderate still in my homecountry my political opinions makes me a communist-hardliner. In central Europe I would be an open-minded centrist.

Economic 0
Socially -4

[myles]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.85
Myles

[Lisbeth]

No, I'm Neutral Neutral. The balance of the universe is everything.

LOL. He was all for balance! Just had a scary way of achieving it! (Oh, this human settlement is really putting pressure on that forest and it's gnoll inhabitants over there ... let's destroy it with a magnified creeping doom spell. 

When you utter the spell of creeping doom, you call forth a mass of centipede swarms (one per two caster levels, to a maximum of ten swarms at 20th level), which need not appear adjacent to one another.

~Simone.

Sounds like it's own form of imbalance to me.

[Vexing]

[goingdown]

In my homecountry this kind of statement makes you a communist.

[Vexing]

In my homecountry this kind of statement makes you a communist.

Excellent.

[goingdown]

I have been mocked as communist many times. It is not nice. I am a social liberal.

[Vexing]

I have been mocked as communist many times. It is not nice. I am a social liberal.

I am a meat popsicle.

[Kaitlyn]

I have been mocked as communist many times. It is not nice. I am a social liberal.

I am a meat popsicle.

Mocked as a communist?  Everyone I know IRL (in the US) seems to think that communism is this awesome utopian state that we're just too wicked to achieve, and that communists all have their hearts in the right place.  To these people, the idea that government should be afraid of them is not just right-wing, but actually reactionary.  America, by and large, has already conceded the arguments of the communists - without being willing to admit it.

Just as an example... the USA is talking about a gigantic "bailout" of its auto industry, which is really a de facto nationalization under socialist principles.  For some reason, nobody wants to call it that.  I mean, right or wrong, most people here don't want to admit to being socialists or even communists, but many of them are.

EDIT:  Maybe I should call them "armchair socialists".

[lady amarant]

Sounds like it's own form of imbalance to me.

LOL. Yeah. He wasn't the sanest soul around.

EDIT:  Maybe I should call them "armchair socialists".

Haha! I like that!

~Simone.