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[APF]

Your political compass:

Economic Left/Right: 0.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.26

 

[Deku]

Your political compass:

Economic Left/Right: 0.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.26

Wow AFP, right down the middle on the left/right spectrum, and I thought my -0.25 was close. :lol We're both pretty close on the scale, I guess I'm not alone in my centerness.

 

[APF]

Wow AFP, right down the middle on the left/right spectrum, and I thought my -0.25 was close. :lol We're both pretty close on the scale, I guess I'm not alone in my centerness.

I was creeped-out! I thought the thing was broken at first.

 

[MrAngryFace]

Economic Left/Right: -4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.87

 

[TheQueen'sOwn]

Economic Left/Right: -3.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.26

 

[WrathOfOtaibah]

Economic Left/Right: 0.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.72

Interesting they have Chirac as a rightie on the chart

 

[gblues]

Economic Left/Right: 4.25
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.82

Please don't ban me.

Nathan

 

[CabbageRed]

Economic Left/Right: -1.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72

We seem to be in need of some diversity. Who wants to take one for the team and become a facist?

 

[teh_pwn]

I took that about a month about.

Edit: Took it again

Economic Left/Right: -4.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.97

 

[videogamer]

Interesting they have Chirac as a rightie on the chart

Uh... the Union for a Popular Movement is the major conservative party in France.

 

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Economic Left/Right: -2.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.36


Hmmm... I thought I'd be more in the middle than that. I'm not sure if I like the idea of being lumped together with the other lefty libertarians but I guess it's better than being on the extreme right.

 

[MrAngryFace]

It just goes to show how scary republicans are if people who consider themselves not huge liberals are way over on the left haha.

 

[radioheadrule83]

Economic Left/Right: -1.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.13

 

[teh_pwn]

It just goes to show how scary republicans are if people who consider themselves not huge liberals are way over on the left haha.

Yeah, I took these tests a few years ago and I was completely moderate.

Now they've got these blatantly extreme right questions that force me to be liberal according to the test.

 

[IJoel]

:lol @ Drinky's definitions

 

[ronito]

Economic Left/Right: -4.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.77

 

[Mashing]

Economic Left/Right: -2.88
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 0.67

 

[teh_pwn]

I took it again and I'm even more liberal:

Economic Left/Right: -4.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.97


I think this is because I've become a health nut in the past year, and I've become increasingly aware of the bullshit that corporations put in food. So the excessive amount of "I don't trust corporations" questions have made more more liberal.


The test, IMO, is way too imbalanced. here's some questions I didn't like:

I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong.

This is getting at the war on Iraq. Sure some people may believe that it wasn't wrong, but just who the hell believes in supporting a country that is "wrong."

Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races.

This actually nudges me to the right. I agree. But Other races also have superior qualities.

Military action that defies international law is sometimes justified.

Also getting at Iraq, I think. I actually agree here, but I nearly put disagree because Iraq came to mind.

People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce.

Define "serious." Are we talking about diseases that will either violently kill the child or cause an enormous financial burden on society. If so, I agree, otherwise no.

Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged.

I disagreed with this one. Just what exactly are they really asking? SS is a retirement fund, and a far better ideal alternative would be for everyone to invest themselves.



The sex questions literally force you to be liberal.

No one can feel naturally homosexual.

To agree with this statement would to disagree with science and psychology. But whatever.

It's fine for society to be open about sex, but these days it's going too far.

Depends on how you look at it. TV, yes. Real discussions in the real world? No, hardly anyone talks about sex in society. At least in my experience.


So enough of the bullshit conservative questions. Where's small government? Fiscal responsibility? These are real conservative values and not "I'm a religious zealot and I hate them gays and will serve an evil government because of my blind patriotism. I'm moral because of my religion and all other people are immoral."

 

[G4life98]

Economic Left/Right: -3.63
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.64

 

[Brotherman]

Economic Left/Right: -6.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -1.79

 

[callous]

Economic Left/Right: -5.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -3.38

Apparently, I am Ghandi.

 

[Fragamemnon]

There are two main problems with this quiz:

1) It uses the terms liberal, conservative, left, and right in a very modern American, and not academic, perspective. What is conservative by any measured manner may not be conservative by a modern American standard because of the state of modern American conservatism.

2) The social questions boil down to the "libertarian" answer or the "Hi, hyper-moralized police states with thought control seem ideal!" answers. None of this is suprising, since the political compass has always been about showing others of their unknown "libertarian" values.

I don't need a political compass to know where I stand-far left on economic issues, and middle-authoritarian on social ones. However, you'd never get to that answer if I took this quiz, since it has such narrowly defined notions of the terms and is so biased in its social questions that it's not even funny.

 

[malek4980]

Economic Left/Right: -1.00
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -0.56