Political leanings

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(eagle33199 @ May 30 2007, 11:35 AM) [snapback]452133[/snapback]</div>

Does anyone else thing this chart is messed up? How are communism (left) and neo-liberalism (right) opposites? Isn't the opposite of communism capitalism or something along those lines? (free markets, etc.)

And while I can see the case for using authoritarian vs. libertarian, I think this is confusing as well. After all, authoritarian is usually used to describe a dictatorship, yet a democracy can and does often choose systems which are communal and obligatory, thereby decidedly NOT libertarian.

It's a neat idea, but I can't wrap my brain around it the way it is. Sorry, E.

 

My score was a -5.63 and -5.33. Puts me in the neighborhood of Gahndi, Mandela, and the Dalai Lama

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tyrin @ May 30 2007, 11:45 AM) [snapback]452138[/snapback]</div>

The FAQ's will help answer some of your questions. #19 should answer your first one.



Excellent topic here. I take this test about once per year just to see where I'm at. I guess it's time to take it once again.

Everyone should take it. Sometimes your graph may surprise you.

 

I'm pretty much smack-dab in the middle of the bottom-left quadrant (i.e. Left/Liberatarian). It surprised me a bit; I always think of myself as an extreme social liberal, but more fiscally conservative (but still on the "left" side of the spectrum).

BTW, should we read anything into the fact that the more liberal ideas are on the negative side of the spectrum?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(eagle33199 @ May 30 2007, 11:35 AM) [snapback]452133[/snapback]</div>

My position: Economic 1.75 Social: 0.56


Not really surprised that overall those on this board will probably fall within a narrow range. Even though the disagreements between liberal and conservative here in the US make it seem like a wide distance separates our beliefs, when compared to the whole spectrum of ideas and philosophies in the world we would appear to be much more alike than different.

 

A few of the questions were tough. I mean I can answer with a gut feeling of how it COULD work, then I have to modify it with our current situations and realities and change the answer because there is too much corruption. lol

Economic Left/Right: -8.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.33


I guess if some redneck calls me a "commie bastard" I'll just have to accept the title???

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(05_SilverPri @ May 30 2007, 12:27 PM) [snapback]452163[/snapback]</div>

Well...I'm:
*Economic: -6.50
*Social: -6.41

Not too surprised.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinto Girl @ May 30 2007, 11:09 AM) [snapback]452188[/snapback]</div>

Figures you were "my kind". The Raiders still suck.

 

Isn't perception interesting?
I thought I'd score more radical than I did
It's me and the Dali Lama down in that quad

economic=-5.88
social=-5.13

 

Your political compass
Economic Left/Right: 3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.18

I am a Conservative Libertarian. However, I am a registered Democrat.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(F8L @ May 30 2007, 02:06 PM) [snapback]452186[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinto Girl @ May 30 2007, 02:09 PM) [snapback]452188[/snapback]</div>

Count me in with the Commie crowd:
Economic Left/Right: -5.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.85

 

Economic -4.75
Libertarian -6.26

About right for me. On similar tests I used to score a little more right on economic issues, but after the last several years of corporate incomes rising during stagnant wage growth for all but the top 1% and after Enron, Worldcom, and so on, and after seeing how several markets can balloon and collapse due to speculation, I guess my faith in capitalism has been waning. I still agree with that idiot Larry Kudlow that capitalism is the best path to prosperity, but I have come to realize that capitalism has serious flaws that government needs to become involved in (such as inequality in education access, inequality in healthcare, the concentration of wealth in a few at the expense of the many, the manipulation of markets for profit, the abuse of the commons, and so on). And at the same time governmental intervention can create more problems.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MarinJohn @ May 30 2007, 02:26 PM) [snapback]452197[/snapback]</div>

Did you forget the negative signs, John? The graph has you up in W territory.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(eagle33199 @ May 30 2007, 12:02 PM) [snapback]452215[/snapback]</div>

Great idea I'm think we may have to create a new chart if too many people participate though. OMG! That was forward thinking towards pro-growth wasn't it? Eek! :lol:



<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Proco @ May 30 2007, 12:06 PM) [snapback]452220[/snapback]</div>

I noticed that too.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MarkMN @ May 30 2007, 12:02 PM) [snapback]452214[/snapback]</div>

Mark, I have come to the same conclusions due to the many books I've read and conversations I've had with some local government official and businessmen/women. Most of this stuff becomes readily apparent once you learn how to use systemic thinking and apply ecological principles to some social structures. Obviously it is not easy to do nor does it always work but it is another tool in the tool box.