Your political compass
 

The Political Compass

Take the test, let others tell you what your REAL political orientation is!

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...3.62&soc=-5.23

Looks like we're in the same general area. Here's mine:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...2.38&soc=-7.79

I have a feeling most of MB is going to be in the same general area.
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I think you're right.

The compass disagrees.

Ha!

The last time I took this I was smack dab in the middle...

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...5.12&soc=-5.33

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...-8.62&soc=2.36

edit : Jesus I'm the only one with authoritarian side...

How are you guys getting the image to show up?

I used photobucket.

I think I right-clicked on the image, selected "display image in new window" and used that url as my image link.

recurring theme is recurring theme.

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i actually thought i was more conservative economically, guess not.

Yep.

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Mine.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...1.62&soc=-4.26

That's not very conservative of you.
;)

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...4.12&soc=-3.03

woot.

I ended up in relatively the same place however there are a few problems. They never show what their interpertation of answers meant, and there are tons of results that could be drawn. The progress as if the answers are bianry but they're clearly not.

Also, i'm concerned that no world leader, or anyone I've seen is in the purple quadrant. And I'm trying to wrap my head around who would be there, someone who really likes social programs, but that doesn't fund them?

Or would it be someone who doesn't fund non-social program governement spending like the military and nasa.

If not all four quadrants are bing filled regularly then I have my concerns about the exam.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/prin...5.62&soc=-3.90

Im ok with this. I think it's fairly accurate. I'm with Big3 though, it would have been nice to see a summary of the questions at the end, and how it effected the results.

It seems to me that the purple quadrant would be some free-range libertarianism. Someone who is for deregulation of all of everything. I'd say someone like Bojarski comes to mind.

it's not like it's a concrete assessment of where you should stand on all major issues, just points in the direction that you're most likely at. and while this isn't perfect it's one of the better ones i've seen.

it's true, there should be a strong correlation between liberalism in social and economic issues, but that doesn't mean that everybody follows that mantra. look at Ron Paul, he's an enormous proponent for a laissez-faire market but he's very liberal socially at the same time.

and no, there shouldn't be an equal distribution throughout the plot. inasmuch the same way as Democrats outnumber Republicans.

right but how do you mary economic conservatism with pro-liberalisation? I gave some examples are those off base, because I have no idea who Bojarski is.

but even still, we're talking statistics here, and on a normal curve, you're going to have a normal distribution.

It should be relativly equal because while parties mean different things, and are package deals that win based on marketing strategies, political philosophy isn't, especially when its as disjointed at the questioning was here.

I'm still not coming to grips with what purple would look like in practicum.

Imagine if Montana was a country.

Montana has social programs?

Probably not many. That's why they'd go in the purple quadrant, the zone for conservative values but very few laws or government programs.

Think Ron Paul but more stupid.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...0.75&soc=-1.95

I'm not exactly surprised.

I'm liking your diagram Alfie... It looks strangely familiar.

yeah but the thing is, you have to be pro-social programs so I think it would be someone who has to pull money from defense spending and prison systems and the like.

I don't know **** about the Swiss but if they have socialized medicine and free college tuition I'd imagine it would be them.

How would being in the right-wing, libertarian corner of the graph mean you're pro-social programs? I would think it would be pretty much the opposite.

I guess my understanding is less than correct then, whats the Y axis stand for?

It's basically the bigger government/smaller government continuum, with bigger government at the top of the chart and smaller government at the bottom. And the x-axis is kind of the progressive values/traditional values continuum, with progressive values on the left and traditional values on the right.

oh well in that case i'm a moron.

so the purple grid makes perfect sense then...whats the deal with the blue grid?

I thought X was all economics?

I thought x was were all the money was? Whatever..

Ah. I guess you're right. I always think it's weird when people turn the left-wing/right-wing thing into simply an economic issue. In reading more of the text on the site the compass comes from they talk about it as if that's the "real" meaning behind the wings but my understanding is that the origins of the terms "left-wing" and "right-wing" have much more to do with progressive values versus traditional values than they have to do with economics.

I think thats honestly the best way to deal with "left" and "right" because otherwise their not good indicators of other things.

From my understanding, in the french legislature after the revolution, the members who wanted to remain relativly the same were sitting on the right side of the room, and the progressives were on the left.

As a professor once told me, if the progressives sat up front, and the conservatives up back we'd call them "front loaders and back loaders."

That's my understanding too. I'm not sure how economics got into the mix.

well I think its because you tend to be fairly steadfast on economics issue. conservation is conservation.

social issues people get weird on. you know, abortions a mess, but stem cell is less chaotic. *** rights, fury. immigrants, less fury.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/face...4.50&soc=-3.90

that seems pretty accurate, I think.