Political Compass Test - Where do you stand?

[phusion]

Anyone ever taken the Political Compass Test?

http://www.politicalcompass.org

I know this pops up every now and then, but I think the site has changed their questions and I'm interested to see where everyone stands.

I am lower left...

Economic Left/Right: -7.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.33

How about you?

[MrSlayer]

1. Same place as always, just left of Ghandi.

Weird.

[devilgrrl]

20. same here...

though you wouldn't know it from many of my posts. :shrug:

[GreenPartyVoter]

48. I am left and down of him too

[oscar111]

2. INteresting.. where's the page with many big names plotted?

cant find it at the site.
I mean, such as Hitler etc. not the nationspecific chart of our elections.

the concepts look ok, now that i have looked closer at it.

[Catholic Sensation]

3. mine

Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.69

[Just Me]

4. At this point, I don't give a shit about "political" orientation.

I am a human being. FUCK POLITICALIZATION OF MY HUMANITY!!!!!

[Taxloss]

5. Economic -9.38, Social -7.54!

I'm more left wing than Gandhi!

[Cocoa]

6. is this the test...

that makes liberals think they're libertarians?

[dissent1977]

14. No, you're thinking of the world's smallest political quiz

That one is definately skewed towards conservative Libertarians. This one uses libertarian in a more general sense, in that a libertarian supports strong civil liberties but it has nothing to do with economics. A socialist can be a Libertarian and this test shows that, whereas the World's smallest political quiz makes it look like all Libertarians are Capitalists. This test is far more accurate.

On Edit: Here is the link http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz.html
Just by the title you should be able to tell that the people who made this quiz are not neutral, they are trying to get certain responses.

[ScrappyDem]

7. I am next to the Dalai Lama---

Who I could buy and sell in a hearbeat, then get all his followers to form an autonomous collective to work for the benefit of ME, while I plot to take over the world, and oppress the feckless minions of my horde.

Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.18

I don't know about this thing.......

[dissent1977]

8. Radical Libertarian Socialist here

Economic Left/Right: -10.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62

[Dem Agog]

9. It would appear I'm darned close to Gandhi...

Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.18

Given their examples, Gandhi & I occupy roughly the same area. I like my company. :-D

[SharonRB]

10. I am also lower left

-5.63 and -4.51

I'm right about where Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama fall.

[flowomo]

11. a little more left and more libertarian than Ghandi.....

[wli]

12. I repeatedly got -10/-10 and I swear I wasn't trying.

I think of myself as a moderate and/or centrist.

[Catholic Sensation]

17. okay describe your stance on these issues:

women's right to choose
gay marriage
national healthcare
environmental protection
affirmative action
government control over factors of production
education (should government provide free education?)
private property ownership
media control

[wli]

27. no problem

Women's right to choose: A woman has an unconditional right to choose.

Gay marriage: Gay marriage should be recognized as fully equivalent to heterosexual marriage federally, with no opt-out by states. Furthermore, marriage should be fully generalized to accommodate e.g. polyamory and/or platonic relationships so long as there is informed consent.

National healthcare: Healthcare should be nationalized and universal to all permanent residents of the US.

Environmental protection: The environment should be not only protected, but industries also made to pay costs of "limited environmental damage" to the affected communities.

Affirmative action: Needs to be reinstituted in full force, with aggressive reparations made to Native American and African American communities in the forms of monetary reparations, land grants of the most valuable land to the community in some form (e.g. partial ownership in companies developing on the lands), and so on.

Government control over factors of production: This should be based on long-term efficiency. Where economies of scale are incredibly large, or very-long-term interests are involved, industries should be nationalized by governmental fiat. This includes healthcare, electrical power, gasoline/oil/etc., and several others.

Education: The government should fully subsidize education through undergraduate on a 100% basis, and at the graduate level based on merit modulo affirmative action.

Private property ownership: Corporate personhood should be abolished, and private land ownership should be heavily regulated to preferentially grant land ownership to the working class (e.g. property tax restricted to large, particularly valuable, or corporate land ownership).

Media control: The government should have no role whatsoever in controlling the content of the media (apart from enforcing slander, libel, and fraud laws), but should heavily regulate access to broadcasting methods (internet, frequencies, etc.) in order to grant individuals and small groups access where they would otherwise be denied it. In particular, things like portfiltering and barring persons from self-hosting on the internet should be illegal. Private citizens should be able to broadcast on radio frequencies and cable channels at no cost beyond that of recording and/or broadcasting equipment, with no restrictions whatsoever on their content, apart from barring jamming of others' broadcasts.

I'd like to tack on the following also:

All acts done with informed consent of all parties involved should be explicitly legal, including narcotics/drug usage of any kind, euthanasia, suicide, unusual sexual preferences, and so on.

[Catholic Sensation]

28. I see very little moderate or centrist in any of that

[wli]

29. what would moderate look like?

Who knows, maybe I don't know where the center is.

[KarenS]

13. about the same place as I was 6 months ago,,,,

Economic Left/Right: -7.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.62

[Baconfoot]

15. Economic: -6.25 Social: -5.33 NT

[wolframtarant]

16. Whoa, looks like I'm a librul...

Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.05

[ignatius 2]

18. _7.25 economics, -5.85 social

n/t

[Coyote_Bandit]

19. I'm in good company

Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.54

[ktowntennesseedem]

21. I'm in Ghandi's neighborhood.

-6.00 on economic scale, -7.02 on the social scale. Pretty good for a recovering Southern Baptist, raised-as-a-Republican, had-to-figure-it-out-on-my-own Southerner.

[napi21]

22. Intresting....

Economic Left/Right -4.75
Social Libertatian -2.26

I guess I'm not quite as radical as some here huh?

[oscar111]

24. NEOLIBERAL? define, please

new term

[napi21]

26. Hell, I don't know. Ijust answered the questions!

Don't aske me to interpret the score too!

[phusion]

32. Think NAFTA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

[napi21]

35. Nope! I didn't want NAFTA, even when Clinton supported it!

Can't be that!

[phusion]

36. Yea, me neither...

But I'm not sure why our friend here mentioned "NEOLIBERAL" when your post had nothing to do with it. WTF?

[Spider Jerusalem]

23. Way off in the lower left corner, the last few times I've taken it.

-8+ or -9+ on both scales.

[tsuki]

25. This can't be correct. I am to the left of the The Dalai Lama, and

further south than anyone.

Economic Left/Right -9.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritian -7.69

[Lerkfish]

34. I"m further south than you, but your'e further left than me.

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.56

[tsuki]

45. But, but, I've always considered myself moderate. eom

[Incitatus]

30. Economic -6.25 Social -5.95

[Eugene]

31. Economic: -5.63 Social: -6.46

Left libertarian similar to previous results.
Near The Dali Lama or Nelson Mandela.

[Lerkfish]

33. ghandi and I would be buds. econ: -5.50, social: -8.59

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.56

apparently I'm left or close to ghandi, and a lot more libertarian than any of their examples.

[Massacure]

37. Economic -6.38, Social -4.31.

[greenbriar]

38. In good company with Ghandi

Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.18

[Pushed To The Left]

39. Here's mine this time:

Economic Left/Right: -5.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33

[lonestarnot]

40. -7.50 Economic; -8 Social Lib

[oscar111]

41. NEOLIBERAL? what's that?

saw it at the site. Not a response to the re above this one.

anyone kind enough to help a little newbie?

[Stil]

42. I'm ashamed

I took this awhile back and turned up about -1 on both. I really don't know if I'm worthy. ;) :o
But one way to look at it even being close to center I agree shrub needs to go.

[Tsiyu]

43. Nothing like making someone THINK

But none of the questions were hard to answer, once you figured out exactly what they were asking.

bhg =

Economic Left/Right: -6.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.13


Very interesting little quiz. Now I have to go figure out what all of that means......:)

[phusion]

44. Cool, huh?

I noticed we are almost all in the lower left corner.

It would be interesting if some brave soul could post this quiz at Conservative UG* and freeper town. Wonder where they would end up? With Hitler? :evilgrin:

[lonestarnot]

46. After you figure it all out, you will see that it merely confirms what you

no doubt already knew. LOL

[oscar111]

47. NEOLIBERAL? what's that?

still want a definition.

saw the new term at the compass site.

help educate me!

thanks

[lonestarnot]

50. That would be a lonestarnot!

[lonestarnot]

51. Also looks to be a taxloss

[lonestarnot]

52. also a wli

[VOX]

49. Economic Left/Right: -7.75, Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.38

And damned proud of it! :thumbsup: