Political compass II

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Went over to the National Libertarian Party website again and retook the world's smallest political quiz, which li'l 'bot found that the word that best describes my politics is Libertarian -- 80% libertarian on the Personal questions, 90% on the economic. My dot plot landed far into the upper (Libertarian) quadrant, and over about a square to the right wing.

Numbers like these are why I ignore Radar when he screeches and rants, gets impolitic, and calls names about how I'm not a libertarian, when the truth of the matter is I'm just not his kind of libertarian, and I'm all right with that. I don't share Murray Rothbard's touching faith in anarchy as the solution to the problem, either. Radar forgets there are free minds as well as free markets, and he visibly does not want exposure to opinions that don't match his. Too bad for him.

[Ibby]

Bit of a revival... I think we should A.) all take the test again and see where we went, once more, and B.) i wanted to show y'all this... I found it very telling about America's political climate.



Notice how even the 'crazy-libertarian' Ron Paul is still above the line on the authoritarian side.


Meanwhile, my latest score is....
Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.28

(the smaller two dots are where the only other two facebook friends of mine with political compass sit on the graph)

[Clodfobble]

June 2005:

Economic Left/Right: 1.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.26

January 2008:

Economic Left/Right: 0.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.79

Looks like I went lefter, and more libertarian.

[DanaC]

Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.18

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.18

Exact same.

[classicman]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.05

LOL - that test is really forked up.
There are many questions that were so poorly written, it is impossible to get anything out of it.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by classicman

01-13-2008, 01:42 PM
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.05

Today:
Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -2.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.82

[deadbeater]

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.54

Think I might wanna join the Columbian rebels.

[aimeecc]

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 1.64
I'm by Pope Benedict XVI and Mamoud Abbas

I have some issues with some questions, as I know others have... Ok, "I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong." Define support... and how wrong? Ok, if were talking holocaust wrong, I'd doing something against my country. If were talking Iraq War, I'm not going to flee to Canada and stop paying taxes, but I'm going to voice my opposition. But is paying taxes still supporting?

[piercehawkeye45]

I'm assuming voice support.

[richlevy]

I find it amusing that on the graph us leftist libertarians aren't pinkos, we're greenos.

BTW, I find it interesting that Clodfobble is moving left-downwards at a (45?) degree angle on the chart while Lookout is moving right-upwards at a similar angle.

I'll leave it to the pundits to decide who's evolving and who's devolving.

[TheMercenary]

The Political Compass

Economic Left/Right: -3.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.44

[lookout123]

BTW, I find it interesting that Clodfobble is moving left-downwards at a (45?) degree angle on the chart while Lookout is moving right-upwards at a similar angle.

I found that pretty funny as well, considering that my political outlook has really mellowed a lot since the last time I took the quiz. My guess is the phrasing plays with my score a bit.

[TheMercenary]

The thing to remember is that the middle 36 blocks (9 per color) are probably not that far off from each other in beliefs. I also suspect that other variables were used to put famous people and politico's in their own little spot.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

The thing to remember is that the middle 36 blocks (9 per color) are probably not that far off from each other in beliefs. I also suspect that other variables were used to put famous people and politico's in their own little spot.

I'm not to sure about that. Ron Paul is only 1 square down and 3 to the right of Hillary. Maybe the middle 4 or 16, but I think people at opposite ends of a 6-block difference would have dramatically different views.

That being said, the differences matter more if one or both of the parties are authoritarian. Stalin and Hitler did not make good neighbors. Adam Smith and Ghandi would probably have done well, mostly because they would not have been busy trying to impose ideas on each other.

Wolf, Bullitt, and Aimee are the only Cellarites who scored higher than 1.0 on the authoritarian scale. I wonder if a person's job has any relationship to score, either as cause or effect?