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Political Spectrum Quiz, Which way do you swing?; Blatant Rip Off from our ally Wysteria
Topic Started: Jan 2 2004, 09:19 PM (1,352 Views)
New People
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On the compass I always score high for personal freedoms and on moderate on economic freedoms.

I've basically been a lifelong Democrat (somehow it can exist here), although officially I'm an independent and 2004 really disillusioned me (I wanted Wes Clark to get the nomination). I've thought about registering as a Communist a couple times just for giggles.
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If I was going to choose a party I would choose Whig, kinda hard to get junk mail from a party that hasn't existed in over a 100 years.
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the United Mountville
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Economic Left/Right -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian -.77
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Yertanistan
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I took this for myself...

Economic Left/Right -3.00
Authoritarian/Libertarian -0.82

So what does that make me? THere's no name near my dot :cry

:jester
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El Pat
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Yertanistan,Jun 12 2005
03:03 AM
So what does that make me? THere's no name near my dot :cry

:jester

Don't worry, there's no name near my dot, either! Esp. now...

My political compass
Economic Left/Right: -7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.18

Woo-hoo! Go Liberal Libertarians!!!

Pat
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F799
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2 up
5 left
making me slightly Authoritarian and pretty much a communist.
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My position on the compass...
Slightly Left-Authoritarian...
I am almost on the EXACT same spot as Pope Benedict XVI...

Economic Left/Right: -2.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 2.51

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NewTexas
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The quiz has moved here: http://politicalcompass.org/
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Bearistotle and Hebert
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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23

Like Yerkistan - there's no one in my field......
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Bearistotle and Hebert,Jul 4 2008
10:19 PM
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.23

Like Yerkistan - there's no one in my field......


We're there for ya Bears, although not quite as Libertarian. However, the last time we took it was 4 years ago, perhaps our political bent has changed. We will retake it.

Here is where we were:

NewTexas@Jan 2 2004
10:19 PM
Economic Left/Right: 2.62
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.69


Now here is where we are:
NewTexas@Jul 4 2008
11:30 PM
Economic Left/Right: 3.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.85


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Very interesting! Over time, we have not become any more Libertarian (appreciably anyway), but have become more of a right-wing Conservative.

Very interesting...

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Darth Kermit
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Economic Left/Right: -1.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.51

I'm pretty close to in the middle. I guess I'm just a middle-aged bureaucratic hippie! :wiggle
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Wiener Philharmoniker
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HotRodia,Jun 7 2004
08:06 AM
New Oltan,Jun 6 2004
03:43 PM
NewTexas,Jun 4 2004
06:39 AM
Hey Pabli or New Oltan,  :howdy

If you have some free time and feel up to it, why don't one of you plot all of Texas's responses?  Only if you feel like it...   :smile

I'm sick right now, so time is all I have...besides a cold B)

Going by that chart, I am the most right-wing of you all. :wow

Congrats.

If I was here a few weeks ago, then I would be the biggest right winger.

But I like my current score, too...

Economic Left/Right: 6.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

Perhaps I would be one of the most social libertarian in Texas region...

:jester :badger :banana

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My score changes all the time (at least a bit), but I have always stayed in the right wing libertarian quadrant and not plan to leave it in the future... :beerchug
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Wiener Philharmoniker
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TX_Longhorns,May 10 2005
11:01 PM
I found another link for several more tests here.

Test one I scored a 35, which turns me into Bob Dole.

Test two, the link was messed up.

Test three

For some reason, I can't get the picture uploaded properly :huh At any rate, It said I was most compatible with:
a ) constitution party
b ) libertarian party
c ) republican party

Test four was dumb, but said I was a "Reagan Republican".

Test five pegged me as
a ) christian democratic
b ) american conservative

Test six, conservative....DUH :crazy

Thx for adding.

Test one: did not work

Test two: the same

Test thee: a good one..

1) Libertarian Party 95%
2) Constitution Party 55%
3) Republican Party 40%
4) Green Party 40%
5) Reform Party 35%
6) Democratic Party 30%
7) Natural Law Party 20%

(but what does the Constitution party do there with so high score?!? :ranting )

Test four: did not load :sterb
Test five:

My #1 is: Left-wing Neoliberal (Clinton)
My #2 is: Liberal
My #3 is: Social-Liberal
My #4 is: American "Liberal"
My #5 is: Right-wing Neoliberal (Thatcher)
My #6 is: Social Democratic
My #7 is: American "Conservative"
My #8 is: Anarcho-Communist
My #9 is: Liberal Nationalist
My #10 is: Liberal Socialist
My #11 is: Christian Democratic
My #12 is: Burkean (liberal) Conservative
My #13 is: Marxist
My #14 is: Soviet "Communist"
My #15 is: National Socialist
My #16 is: Christian Socialist
My #17 is: Fascist
My #18 is: Revolutionary Conservative/Monarchist (far right)

Test six: no surprise:

LIBERTARIAN

LIBERTARIANS support maximum liberty in both personal and

economic matters. They advocate a much smaller government; one

that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence.

Libertarians tend to embrace individual responsibility, oppose

government bureaucracy and taxes, promote private charity, tolerate

diverse lifestyles, support the free market, and defend civil liberties.

The RED DOT on the Chart shows where you fit on the political map.

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 90%.
Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 100%.

Hooray! :hyper
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neue Schottland
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Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.18


I love me some free markets!
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Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.64


I wish they would explain more what this all means. :spinner :aeh :aeh
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Trecdom,Jul 10 2008
12:08 AM
I wish they would explain more what this all means.  :spinner  :aeh  :aeh

It is all on their site:

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<H1>About The Political Compass<SPAN class=tm>™</SPAN></H1>
<P>In the introduction, we explained the inadequacies of the traditional
left-right line.
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<P></P>
<P>If we recognise that this is essentially an economic line it's fine, as far
as it goes. We can show, for example, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Pol Pot, with
their commitment to a totally controlled economy, on the hard left. Socialists
like Mahatma Gandhi and Robert Mugabe would occupy a less extreme leftist
position. Margaret Thatcher would be well over to the right, but further right
still would be someone like that ultimate free marketeer, General Pinochet. </P>
<P>That deals with economics, but the social dimension is also important in
politics. That's the one that the mere left-right scale doesn't adequately
address. So we've added one, ranging in positions from extreme authoritarian to
extreme libertarian.
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<P>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</P>
<P>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. </P>
<P>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) </P>
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<P>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. </P>
<P>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.
</P>
<H4>A Word about Neo-cons and Neo-libs</H4>
<P>U.S.neo-conservatives, with their commitment to high military spending and
the global assertion of national values, tend to be more authoritarian than hard
right. By contrast, neo-liberals, opposed to such moral leadership and, more
especially, the ensuing demands on the tax payer, belong to a further right but
less authoritarian region. Paradoxically, the "free market", in neo-con
parlance, also allows for the large-scale subsidy of the military-industrial
complex, a considerable degree of corporate welfare, and protectionism when
deemed in the national interest. These are viewed by neo-libs as impediments to
the unfettered market forces that they champion. </P><BR><BR>
<H1>International Chart</H1>
<P>A diverse professional team has assessed the words and actions of
internationally known contemporary leaders to give you an idea of how they
relate to each other on the political compass. </P>
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developing world. This is due to our inability so far to contact independent
experts. </P><BR><BR>
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and the realisation of it in practical form. It has occasionally come to our
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Economic Left/Right: -5.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.64


I wish they would explain more what this all means. :spinner :aeh :aeh

It means that you are a bit less authoritatian (more social libertaian) lefty. :yacky

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