To find out where you are politically - not just left or right.

Click here for a bit of info on it: http://www.politicalcompass.org/

Click here to take the test: http://www.politicalcompass.org/test

Your sincerely

Goldy (left libertarian)

I stumbled on this thingee a few years ago. And I still fall out of the bottom left corner!

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.72

Good company though: Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, the Dalai Lama.

~Simone.

Not a huge surprise, but I'm far more toward the left/anarchist corner than any of the examples they gave. Yes, moreso than Nelson Mandela or the Dalai Lama and quite a bit further toward the corner than Gandhi-ji.

I have to admit I supported Obama, but I would rather have had a president who would have probably tried to make greater changes than he is likely to do. Of course, getting elected in the USA means generally appealing to some aspects of the fascist/comfort group of traditionalists.

Thank goodness he didn't feel the need to go quite so far, at least in his rhetoric, as (Bill) Clinton went. And when it comes down to it, I loved the fact that Hillary was a woman, but her policies would probably have me sighing the same way Obama's election and proposed policies make me sigh.

Nichole

O, right. Actually quite to the left:

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -9.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.15

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79


I'm around the middle of the left-bottom (green) square. No surprise there. I don't think I agree with the "Libertarian" moniker though. Libertarians seem to have a "dog-eat-dog" view of economics I don't subscribe to.

"Mainstream" anarchists (if there is such a thing), have been trying for a while now to use the libertarian label instead in order to distance themselves from the connotations anarchism has acquired. As soldierjane points out though, most libertarians are a bit too into the whole social-darwinism thing for my tastes - basically anarcho-capitalists to a greater or lesser extent.

~Simone.

I absolutely agree about "libertarian," SJ and Simone. My initial take was: "They're trying to lump me with Bob Barr and "those" libertarians!!?" Puh-leez.

I think what you'll find, Emme, is that absolutely everyone who is actually interested in "the law" when they come to this is gonna be to the right or in the center for the most part. The interest certainly implies, if it doesn't mandate, a certain respect and compliance with "the way things are."

We anarcho-syndicalists still weep, three generations later, for the destruction of the Catalan communes in the late-1930s.

Nichole

Quote from: Emme on December 02, 2008, 09:02:41 AM
Wow, I'm way closer to the middle than anyone else so far.

If it makes you feel better, here what I got:

Economic Left/Right: -1.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03

However, I thought several of those questions were slanted. For example, consider, "A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system."

I agree: that is a significant advantage. I'm not sure how anyone could deny that. However, I also think a one-party state has disadvantages that far outweigh that advantage.

Or consider, "It is a waste of time to try to rehabilitate some criminals." Duh! Does anyone deny that there aren't some career crooks who can't be rehabilitated? At least not by the time they're adults?

Economic Left/Right: -6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.18

I do agree that some of the questions have a bias slant never really have been to big a fan of survey test like that they just don't allow enough possiblities

And the Marx quote is a big gotcha

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.92

Very close to Gandhi.
Does this mean I'm enlightened.

And the Marx quote is a big gotcha
Well it is one of old Karl's Greatest Hits, so people thinkin that they be gettin' all political and that, ought to know it.  And even though he is an old rather boring economic writer (ok, really, really boring, yeesh) I don't think that he was all that far off the mark with that remark, but hey, a broken watch is right twice a day, right?

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.51

Quote from: Nichole on December 02, 2008, 08:37:56 AM
Not a huge surprise, but I'm far more toward the left/anarchist corner than any of the examples they gave. Yes, moreso than Nelson Mandela or the Dalai Lama and quite a bit further toward the corner than Gandhi-ji.

Me too. I'm always dismayed how no leaders are way in the lower left corner to keep me company, and how many are clustered in the upper right quadrant. What's with that anyway?

Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.90

Nichole, if they included Dennis Kucinich I bet he'd keep us company down there.

Quote from: soldierjane link=topic=50588.msg312475#msg312475I don't think I agree with the "Libertarian" moniker though. Libertarians seem to have a "dog-eat-dog" view of economics I don't subscribe to.

I believe here they are only using libertarian in the sense of social issues, like if you support pot-smoking gays getting married instead of wanting to throw them in jail.

The dog-eat-dog economics espoused by the Libertarian Party would go in the lower right quadrant.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.33

I've always felt that in an ideal world the government should butt out as much as possible.  Unfortunately, in the real world, that would lead to anarchy and utter corruption.  The government should protect people from those who would put their own gain ahead of public good.  However, when it comes down to people's personal lives - who should marry whom, whether law abiding citizens can carry guns, whether someone should be able to smoke a doobie in their own livingroom - it's really none of the government's business.

Of course, then there are always the borderline cases.  Which is more important?  The individual's right to smoke, for example, or the public's right to breathe clean air?  If we allow gay marriage, should we also allow polygamy? (I say yes.) And if we do, how will that affect divorce laws, etc?  Unfortunately, there are never any cut and dried answers that will fit every situation.

What in the world does this one have to do with politics?

QuoteAstrology accurately explains many things.

Anyway... Economic Left/Right: -8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.90  ^^

Quote from: Hypatia on December 07, 2008, 12:47:49 AM
Nichole, if they included Dennis Kucinich I bet he'd keep us company down there.

Kucinich was my first choice.

Hmm, so Dennis isn't as lower-left as I'd imagined. Well, I guess Barack will do as a second-best. But something REALLY BOTHERS ME:

A majority of those who took this test (not just here, but at the Political Compass site itself) are in the lower left quadrant. All of our leaders in the USA, and most of the foreign leaders too, are clustered in the upper right. Hel-LO what's wrong with this picture?

exactly, all these people get up in arms about the differences between conservatives and liberals and then you realize they are just 2 factions of the same (capitalist) party.

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -9.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.79