[MD]

For fun I decided to drag this one up out of the archives. I took the test and once again found myself stuck very close to the center, where all thoughtful, intelligent, mature adults belong.

[dunewalker]

Never saw this test before, so took it now:

Economic: -7.23
Social: -7.88

[spotacus]

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: -6.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.05


Am I a hippy?

[Cid_Yama]

The problem is most people only have a vague and simplistic understanding of where they or anyone else actually stands politically. Not to mention a lack of understanding of certain political concepts.

Here, take the test.

http://politicalcompass.org/

Then we will have a common basis to talk.

[Cid_Yama]

Economic Left/Right: -6.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.0

[Ibon]

Economic Left/Right: -7.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.1

[Pops]

Thanks for the snips on progressives vs liberals Cid, explains a lot of why I am not automatically on the side of liberals.

On the Compass:
Economic Left/Right: -6.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.72

Seems I'm quite a bit more toward pitchforks than last time I took the quiz. Maybe twice as far down, actually in syndicalist territory. Yeow!

[ralfy]

Related, from 2009:

"Only Six Percent Of Scientists Are Republicans: Pew Poll"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/1 ... 29382.html

[jedrider]

Economic Left/Right: -7.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.51

Aren't most people smart enough to be Liberal, yet there are so many Conservatives

[clif]

Economic Left/Right: -8.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.85

[Plantagenet]

Economic Left/Right: -4.0
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.77

As usual, I'm more in the moderate center then most people at this site.

[Subjectivist]

Apparently I am growing more authoritarian as I age, I have for the first time approached the line though I have still not crossed it.

Economic Left/Right: 0.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.1

[careinke]

Economic left/Right 2.5 - Am I the only one on this side of the spectrum? Probably because I know the difference between debt and deficit. Plus, I believe government armed robbery of ANYONE (most taxes), to give to someone else is morally repugnant.

Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.51 - Anarchists Unite!!!

Happy to be in Friedmans Square

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'E')conomic left/Right 2.5 - Am I the only one on this side of the spectrum? Probably because I know the difference between debt and deficit. Plus, I believe government armed robbery of ANYONE (most taxes), to give to someone else is morally repugnant.

[sparky]

.
I've looked at Cid test , I'm not very impressed , the questions are inducing answers
that's quite value loaded , a bit like ....would stopping beating your wife be a good thing ?
corporation are ( nominally ) an enterprise to make money by legal means ,
they have absolutely no social concern as such ,beside staying within the laws , neither should they !

as for "an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth" it's from the Assyrian Amurabi code of law recycled in the bible
which specifically require proportionality in retributive justice , as fair a concept as was coined in the last 4000 years .
left to the locals , it would be the more traditional " for one eye , both eyes , for one tooth , the whole jaw "

[Cid_Yama]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')he questions are inducing answers that's quite value loaded

[dohboi]

May I humbly suggest that the great poll and people's answers to it be split off into its own thread?

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sparky', '.')
I've looked at Cid test , I'm not very impressed , the questions are inducing answers
that's quite value loaded , a bit like ....would stopping beating your wife be a good thing ?
corporation are ( nominally ) an enterprise to make money by legal means ,
they have absolutely no social concern as such ,beside staying within the laws , neither should they !

as for "an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth" it's from the Assyrian Amurabi code of law recycled in the bible
which specifically require proportionality in retributive justice , as fair a concept as was coined in the last 4000 years .
left to the locals , it would be the more traditional " for one eye , both eyes , for one tooth , the whole jaw "