Political compass test

[indra]

The Political Compass is an interesting test.

I placed in the bottom left hand corner of the lower left quadrant, so I'm a left-wing libertarian (as if you didn't already know that ).

So, what are you?

 

[A_Wanderer]

Lower Right, I am a Right-Wing libertarian (2.5, -2.21). Interestingly enough there are no international examples of this - I keep telling you all that there isn't a damn party that matches my ideology and this "prooves" it (in a wierd quizzy way).

 

[indra]

Lower Right, I am a Right-Wing libertarian (2.5, -2.21). Interestingly enough there are no international examples of this - I keep telling you all that there isn't a damn party that matches my ideology and this "prooves" it (in a wierd quizzy way).

I think they said they couldn't find any examples of it! Well, we knew you were, um...different!

 

[A_Wanderer]

^LOL, thats what I keep telling myself - maybe they couldn't get around having somebody advocate interventionist principles of foreign policy and support Abortion and Recreational Drug Use?

Wait a tick, Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand.

 

[pax]

I'm a libertarian leftist, very close to where the Dalai Lama would place. I would say I'm in good company.

 

[Liesje]

I'm about where Paul Martin is on the graph, but my dot is right on the horizontal axis.

 

[sharky]

Libertarian left, but closer to Mandela. Good enough.

 

[ThatGuy]

-5.88
-4.51

Libertarian Left, close to the Dalai Lama.

 

[beli]

Left Libertarian for me

Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.54

The closest one to me is the Dalai Lama.

Of the books recommended for Left Libertarians I have read Michael Moore and George Orwell. I would read/watch The Fast Food Nation if I could.

 

[indra]

Guess I should put my numbers in too. They are:

Economic Left/Right -7.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -9.03

 

[beli]

Musically Im closest to Bartok.

*wanders off to find out what Bartok sounds like*

 

[starsgoblue]

Libertarian Left---right with Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama!

 

[A_Wanderer]

I think that the quiz is a biased one, it is particuarly difficult to get anywhere near the conservative right, perhaps some of the questions such as "Do you think that the government needs to know about your sex life" (yeah im going of memory here) - honestly, does anybody here want their government to know more about their sex life, actually dont answer that.

 

[nbcrusader]

Didn't we do this before and someone graciously charted all our responses?

 

[nbcrusader]

Yes, our beloved Dred did it here

 

[AcrobatMan]

RIGHT Libertarian

Economic Left/Right: 2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.67

 

[LoveTown]

Left Libertarian....nearly in the exact same spot as Gandhi. I feel proud to be near him

 

[verte76]

Economic Left/Right-- -7.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -3.54

Right around Ghandi.

 

[AcrobatMan]

Gandhi not Ghandi

 

[U2Kitten]

I got Gandhi too

Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.64


You are all probably surprised I got Libertarian left! There are so many questions about poor people, and I took up for the poor people, also I don't like red tape and authorities messing with people, that did it too. I guess the only things I'm really right wing on are abortion, because I can't see any 'choice' taking more value than a life, and my utter hatred for PCness and terrorists. But actually that's kind of libertarian too, because the main reason I hate PCness is that it is a form of censorship ironically used by those who claim to be the most 'open minded', but when you shut out certain points of view, you're the same as the people you disagree with.

 

[A_Wanderer]

LOL, it reminds me of the Trey Parker line.

I don't like Conservatives but I really hate Liberals (or something to that effect).

 

[U2Kitten]

LOL, it reminds me of the Trey Parker line.

I don't like Conservatives but I really hate Liberals (or something to that effect).

LOL, something like that! I'm weird too and I can't find any party that pleases me

 

[AcrobatMan]

A_Wanderer we got similar co-ordinates...in fact same abscissa

 

[verte76]

I don't like PC stuff either. I also gave some more conservative answers in the religion/morality department, thus my score difference.

 

[A_Wanderer]

Im actually surprised that I got such a low libertarian view, its difficult to reconcile some of the political and social influences, I am not even sure that integrating them was such a good idea.

Exellent word use A-Man, I shall have to use it in conversation (coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes - see who needs a brain when they have google )

 

[AcrobatMan]

Okay I saw the earlier thread also ..and found that no one else apart from me and A-W'er lies in the right bottom quadrant.

 

[neutral]

Economic Left/Right: 0.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.97



I'm closest to the Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela.

 

[NameOfLove19]

Me too, except I'm -0.12 Left-Right and -2.51 Authoritarian-Libertarian.

I tell ya, if Bush wasn't in office during my politically formative years, I'd call myself a moderate!

 

[Diane L]

I'm a Libertarian Lefty, near Mandela and the Dalai Lama. That's not bad company!

 

[Dreadsox]

This should be merged to keep a record of some of the newer posters with the older posters....IMHO