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[W:583] Political Compass Thread

You are a left moderate social libertarian.
Left: 7.04, Libertarian: 3.27

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You are a left moderate social libertarian.
Economic Left: 7.04, Social Libertarian: 3.6
Let's see if I can get the map posted.... had to add the image my own site....
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Foreign Policy:

On the left side are pacifists and anti-war activists. On the right side are those who want a strong military that intervenes around the world.
You scored: -6.69

Culture:

Where are you in the culture war? On the liberal side, or the conservative side? This scale may apply more to the US than other countries.
You scored: -7.51
 
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I didn't expect to be quite so Libertarian. I guess I have to start smoking pot now.

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I didn't expect to be quite so Libertarian. I guess I have to start smoking pot now.

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Hippie.

Still roughly the same territory. I go back and forth on a few questions which seems to change the direction of my point slightly.
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That's fairly accurate for me

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This may strike some folks as a ridiculous question, but if one chose to leave one's ideological leaning "undisclosed," what is the point of posting one's results from the "political compass" survey? Or put another way, why remain "undisclosed" after having posted one's results from the survey? Just curious....



The political compass "game" is cute, but its output is much too vague. I think folks will find the following overlays helpful.


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The thing I don't much like about charts and "exercises" like the political compass is that, IMO, far too many folks participate in them without really understanding their results. For example, I'd wager that Trump hasn't any idea of the difference between "Liberal" and "liberal" or between "socialist" and "Socialist," or, for that matter among socialism, communism and command economy. I don't mean that derogatorily (at least not in this thread's context); mean it as a way of illustrating at least one of the challenges of discussing political affiliations, political ideologies and political philosophies.
 
Here is the direction I go in by using my political compass and my common sense....

Reality--------------> This way! The only road I take!

Guanno crazy<------------ That way! I refuse to go there!
 
This is actually quite interesting, because about 6 months ago I was about +5, -5, sitting right in the middle of the purple box.

I think this shift has come from the debates on here, more research on my own, and the reflection on my experiences in europe.

Maybe I should shift my DB political lean from Libertarian - Right to just Libertarian?

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Welcome to the Cool Quad. I've moved a bit left and authoritarian over the past years.

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I'm not as far left as that claims. I guess a few questions I over or under-thought.
 
I've moved a bit left and authoritarian over the past years.

I'm not as far left as that claims. I guess a few questions I over or under-thought.
I took the questionnaire a few times recently and a few times some years ago; it returned substantively the same results each time, though the dot moved left or right by no more than a unit.

On the first of my more recent responding to the questions, several questions struck me as interpretable "this" way or "that," and depending on how I interpreted the questions, I had different answers. I had the "overthinking" (an oxymoron to be sure, but anyway) concern -- several of the questions struck me as very ambiguous -- so I took the test several times trying out the various interpretations and corresponding responses. None of the answer combinations I gave made a material difference, but they did move the dot a tiny bit, one unit left, right, up or down.

This is actually quite interesting, because about 6 months ago I was about +5, -5, sitting right in the middle of the purple box.

You probably as, as you suggested, just "basic" libertarian, at least it appears that way if one looks at the more detailed chart found in post #331. You may be on the liberal side of Libertarianism, yet not an actual "Left-Libertarianism-ist." Then again, you could also be a "non-capitalized" version of one or the other.

My own views don't fit neatly into an "init-cap" political ideology "label." That works just fine for me for I don't assign labels to my political stances; I merely express whatever be my stance on a given public policy matter. Depending on the topic, my views span a upward opening log-like (asymmetrically parabolic, if one prefers) arc starting at Ultra-Capitalist and going down to the upper reaches of Mutualism and Syndicalism and then back up to Social-Democratism.

Ultimately, though I find exercises such as the Political Compass entertaining, I find their results unsatisfying because they attempt to encapsulate in one term or pair of coordinates the whole of one's thinking. Frankly, I think most folks not nearly so cartoonish, so cognitively caricatured as that, but maybe I'm mistaken and most folks are just that banal. Of course, some aren't and they are whom we rightly call "partisans."
 
The political compass "game" is cute, but its output is much too vague. I think folks will find the following overlays helpful.
The thing I don't much like about charts and "exercises" like the political compass is that, IMO, far too many folks participate in them without really understanding their results.
Not sure I understand what you mean.

The results are that if people take an identical questionnaire, they can see who holds similar beliefs. If most people are using it as a reference point, it's a common reference point, so differences can be measured, and established more so than just claiming a label, and then bickering over definitions, etc..
What the axis are labeled is almost irrelevant to that label because it's about how you answer the questions. How you put splotchy circles and label them, seems to be missing the entire point. Also, if you just answer the questions, why does it matter if you know the difference between socialist and Socialist? You simply answer as truthfully as you can, and you get a data point that can be compared to other data points.

It's a relatively fixed point, that everyone can take, and they have a common reference point. That's the main thing here IMO.
 
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I landed firmly on Milton Friedman - can't complain.
 
You are a left moderate social libertarian.
Left: 6.38, Libertarian: 1.69
 
You are a right moderate social libertarian.
Right: 3.66, Libertarian: 1.26
 
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It is hard to answer those poorly worded questions honestly without any nuance.
 
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Economic Left/Right: -7.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.03
 
I came out a left libertarian, when in actual fact I am so far right of centre I almost fall over

Havent you noticed, all libertarians are now republicans
 
Havent you noticed, all libertarians are now republicans

Yeah I find it fascinating that all these "libertarians" have abandoned all their principles for worship of an authoritarian wannabe autocrat.

Must be some very tasty kook-aid!
 
Left libertarian.

Far left, which didn't shock me. Far more libertarian than I imagined.

Not that far off from where they have Ghandi, which makes me feel quite good actually.
 
Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -8.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.69
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I'm apparently to to the left of and more libertarian than Ghandi.
And significantly more even than Jill Stein.
Probably should have voted for her in 2016...

Forgot to grab #'s on this one but it was something like -6.5/-6.8 or some such.
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Also realized I hadn't changed my lean in awhile, and what do you know there's a progressive lean.
 
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You are a left moderate social libertarian.
Left: 5.49, Libertarian: 2.02

Another set of numbers to throw into the mixture of who I am.
 
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