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What's your political compass?
Topic Started: Jun 2 2009, 07:02:43 PM (1,099 Views)
Todd McCloud
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Post up your political compass, and I'll add you to the graph:

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http://politicalcompass.org/test

A brief explanation, as taken directly from the site:

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Both an economic dimension and a social dimension are important factors for a proper political analysis. By adding the social dimension you can show that Stalin was an authoritarian leftist (ie the state is more important than the individual) and that Gandhi, believing in the supreme value of each individual, is a liberal leftist. While the former involves state-imposed arbitary collectivism in the extreme top left, on the extreme bottom left is voluntary collectivism at regional level, with no state involved. Hundreds of such anarchist communities exisited in Spain during the civil war period.

You can also put Pinochet, who was prepared to sanction mass killing for the sake of the free market, on the far right as well as in a hardcore authoritarian position. On the non-socialist side you can distinguish someone like Milton Friedman, who is anti-state for fiscal rather than social reasons, from Hitler, who wanted to make the state stronger, even if he wiped out half of humanity in the process.

The chart also makes clear that, despite popular perceptions, the opposite of fascism is not communism but anarchism (ie liberal socialism), and that the opposite of communism ( i.e. an entirely state-planned economy) is neo-liberalism (i.e. extreme deregulated economy)

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 social Darwinian 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. On the other hand, the classical libertarian collectivism of anarcho-syndicalism ( libertarian socialism) belongs in the bottom left hand corner.

In our home page we demolished the myth that authoritarianism is necessarily "right wing", with the examples of Robert Mugabe, Pol Pot and Stalin. Similarly Hitler, on an economic scale, was not an extreme right-winger. His economic policies were broadly Keynesian, and to the left of some of today's Labour parties. If you could get Hitler and Stalin to sit down together and avoid economics, the two diehard authoritarians would find plenty of common ground.
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Dyr Nasad
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Economic Left/Right: 7.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.59

Most of the economic right is because I don't mind businesses, and I don't like high taxes.
I thought I'd be a little more socially libertarian. (maybe -5-ish)

(I agree with the explanation in the previous post. Rand ftw)
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Economic Left/Right: -2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.38
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Economic Left/Right: -9.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.13
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http://politicalcompass.org/facebook/pcgra...-7.88&soc=-3.38




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Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.38
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Economic Left/Right: -7.88
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Will do this tmr.

*reserves a spot*

EDIT: DONE! The most center anyone would probably get.



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Todd McCloud
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Updated. This is shaping up to be pretty interesting!
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Dyr Nasad
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Hey!

You messed mine up! I should be in the lower right quadrant.
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Todd McCloud
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Fixed.
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Lazlowia
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This same test was made about a year ago, and I stated there too, that it is not correct in my opinion.

Economic Left/Right: -8.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.41
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Economic Left/Right: -1.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92
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Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.85
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Economic Left/Right: -3.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.36

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Economic Left/Right: -0.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.95
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Todd McCloud
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Updated. I find it interesting most are within the green, yet no one is in the top right corner.
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Dyr Nasad
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YEAH! I'm an outsider!
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Haor Chall
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What a bunch of commies, eh? :P

Eh...

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Bai Lung
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Oh dear. I've seem to be the first authoritarian, right wing person according to the compass. This is ironic because my country was a left wing autocratic country.

Economic Left/Right: 1.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.87

To date, I hold the distinction of being the only neo-con user. Well, neo-con by your standards.
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"They whine about discrimination. Do you know who is being discriminated against? The Hal'vonnist people of Dannistaan, the ones who created this nation... I am talking about the Dannistrian Hal'vonnist people of the North as well as the East...Communism is racial! A racial minority seized control in Bai Lung and in all her satellite states such as Kelssek, Dovakhan and the Free Pacific States, and many other countries I could name."

-Kelly Minn'ow-Jones, former leader of the Dannistrian National Party
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Todd McCloud
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Updated!
"Your uniform doesn't seem to fit. You're much too alive in it."

"You must be the change you want to see in the world" - Gandhi
"The worst prison would be a closed heart." - Pope John Paul II
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Bai Lung
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I hate gay marriages and civil unions.
I hate drug use.
I hate Commies.
I hate whinging left wing, liberal Guardian newspaper readers.
I love maximum intervention on other countries.

On a more serious note, I am a little surprised how I managed to end up on the right. I mean, I am not in favour of legalising weed, I am only in favour of some protectionism (I'm not a Communist) and favour gay marriages on the basis they don't ram down thier policies down my throat like with many things in life.

Very odd.
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"They whine about discrimination. Do you know who is being discriminated against? The Hal'vonnist people of Dannistaan, the ones who created this nation... I am talking about the Dannistrian Hal'vonnist people of the North as well as the East...Communism is racial! A racial minority seized control in Bai Lung and in all her satellite states such as Kelssek, Dovakhan and the Free Pacific States, and many other countries I could name."

-Kelly Minn'ow-Jones, former leader of the Dannistrian National Party
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Lazlowia
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As I said earlier, I think this is not a good test. I suspect, that the end results reflect the views of the creators.
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Dannistaan
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Jun 12 2009, 09:09 PM
As I said earlier, I think this is not a good test. I suspect, that the end results reflect the views of the creators.

To an extent, the same can be said of any online survey/test/questionnaire. There will always be a level of bias in any such assessment of opinion. It is inevitable. There is no real way to avoid it. Nevertheless I think it is an interesting view of political views and there is no real harm in it.
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Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.23

I have taken this test 3 times so far and I stay in the same area, nice.
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lowbrook
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Isn't it really weird how nearly everybody is in or on the border of the bottom left quadrant?
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Todd McCloud
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lowbrook
Jun 14 2009, 11:27 AM
Isn't it really weird how nearly everybody is in or on the border of the bottom left quadrant?

I wasn't expecting that, to be honest. I guess we're a very leftist / libertarian region for the most part, lol.

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"Your uniform doesn't seem to fit. You're much too alive in it."

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Dovakhan
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Economic Left/Right: -5.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.36

«Multinational companies are unethically exploiting the plant genetic resources of developing countries» <= I always thought this statement was a little bizarre.

Edit: I was a little curious, so I used the Gallup polls to try and hash out the views of the average American, and it came up with something like (+1, +2).
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Bai Lung
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Todd McCloud
Jun 14 2009, 04:02 PM
lowbrook
Jun 14 2009, 11:27 AM
Isn't it really weird how nearly everybody is in or on the border of the bottom left quadrant?

I wasn't expecting that, to be honest. I guess we're a very leftist / libertarian region for the most part, lol.

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Except me, who is a total neocon. :exterminate:
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"They whine about discrimination. Do you know who is being discriminated against? The Hal'vonnist people of Dannistaan, the ones who created this nation... I am talking about the Dannistrian Hal'vonnist people of the North as well as the East...Communism is racial! A racial minority seized control in Bai Lung and in all her satellite states such as Kelssek, Dovakhan and the Free Pacific States, and many other countries I could name."

-Kelly Minn'ow-Jones, former leader of the Dannistrian National Party
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